LOUIS JOU SIGNED Etching~ ART DECO FLAMENCO ~ 1915 Spanish Artist FRENCH/CATALAN

Description: A gorgeous early Art Deco etching from Catalan/French artist Louis Jou (1881-1968). It depicts three Spanish woman Flamenco dancers at rest in animated conversation. It is pencil signed & dated by the artist in the lower right and also monogrammed in the plate. Good sized, the plate measures 10 x 8 3/8 inches, the full sheet is 16 3/4 x 12 inches. Probably from a deluxe edition, it is printed in dark brown ink on cream colored wove paper. Aside from some handling grime in the margins and a tiny 1/4 tear to the right edge center, the print is in excellent condition. Luis Felipe-Vicente Jou i Senabre (1881-1968), known as Louis Jou, was a Spanish/French painter, printmaker and typographer. At about age ten, his parents apprenticed him to a printer in Barcelona, and by the age of sixteen, Jou had joined up with a group of young intellectuals and artists, In 1906, Louis Jou left for France, there he met François Bernouard, poet, printer and publisher with whom he created the Belle Édition where his talent as a typographer, engraver and composer of beautiful texts was demonstrated. He befriended André Derain and his countryman Pablo Picasso and obtained commissions in Jean Cocteau 's luxury magazine Schéhérazade. In 1909 and 1910, he published drawings in L'Assiette au Beurre, then in Le Témoin, Le Courrier français, Le Frou-frou (1911-1912). In 1921, his meeting with the writer André Suarès gave birth to a lifelong friendship. Suarès describes Jou as an “architect of the book”. He realizes his dream and brings back his own typographic characters from Spain. He then delivered several engravings to the art magazine Byblis (1926, 1930). In 1939, he left Paris and took refuge in Les Baux de Provence, where he restored the house acquired in 1921, the splendid Renaissance Hôtel Jean de Brion. He composed, alone in his workshop, facing his home, his most beautiful works entitled The books of Louis Jou: The 24 sonnets of Louise Labbé, Adolphe by Benjamin Constant, The Dance of Death, The Bucolic Baussenques, The Song of Songs and Orations funeral pronounced by Messire Jacques Benigne Bossuet. Among the greatest typographers of the century, Louis Jou's place is exceptional. Wood engraver, metal engraver, Jou designed and casts his own fonts. He is the only one among his peers to have designed and produced a work entirely by himself. In 1963, Jou was awarded a Knighthood in the Order of Arts and Letters from the nation of France.

Price: 275 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Florida

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