1939 « LES CONTES offres DROLATIQUES » avec ALBERT DUBOUT ILLUST. CARICATURES FRANÇAISES BAWDY

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BALZAC, Honore (Author)

DUBOUT, Albert (Illustrations)

"LES CONTES DROLATIQUES"

Paris. Gibert Jeune. 1939 (February).First Edition thus.(#1895 of 3000 copies). 124 in-text & full page, color illustrations by Albert Dubout.Top edge gilt. Bound in half-vellum. Minor cracks to outer hinges however sound and serviceable. Overall, very good or better.

A fine example of the bawdy, humorous and irreverent illustration work of Albert Dubout. This work done just about a year prior to the German invasion of France.

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Albert Dubout (15 May 1905 – 27 June 1976) was aFrench cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor.

Albert Dubout was born in Marseille. After attendingschool at Nîmes (where he met Jean Paulhan) he studied at the fine arts schoolin Montpellier where he met his first wife, Renée Altier, and where his firstdrawings were published in the student journal Lécho des étudiants in 1923.

After moving to Paris, literary director PhilippeSoupault was the first to hire him to illustrate a book, Les Embarras de Parisby Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux. Dubout continued on to illustrate numerouseditions of books by Boileau, Beaumarchais, Mérimée, Rabelais, Villon,Cervantes, Balzac, Racine, Voltaire, Rostand, Poe, and Courteline.

He collaborated on numerous magazines and journalssuch as Le Rire, Marianne, Eclats de Rire, Los à Moëlle, Paris-Soir, andIci-Paris.

He also created movie and theatre posters as well astheatrical sets. He worked in advertising, painted oil canvases (over 70 intotal) and illustrated many book covers and record sleeves.

Albert Dubout also illustrated Gargantua andPantagruel, oeuvres of the famous French satirist Rabelais. One of his favoriteand perhaps unwilling models were an obese tobacconist and the small andscrawny tax collector who lived in the forties and fifties in Agde, Herault,France.

In 1953, French president Vincent Auriol awarded himthe Legion of Honour. His name also appeared that year in the Petit Laroussedictionary.

In 1965, he illustrated the San-Antonio book series,at the request of author Frédéric Dard.

In 1967 he married his second wife, Suzanne Ballivet,who was also a painter. He divided his time in this period betweenMézy-sur-Seine, near Paris, and Palavas-les-Flots, on the south coast, untilhis death in 1976.

In 1992, a museum about Dubout was dedicated inPalavas-les-Flots.

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