LARGUIER (Léo).

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LARGUIER (Léo).
Afternoon at the antique shop, or the poor amateur's handbook. Circa 1921. Autograph manuscript of 147 pages, written on one side only, and a table leaf. In-4, the two lacquered wooden plates representing a landscape with a castle, joined by a spine of tapestry (Binding of the time). Very curious and endearing manuscript in which the author has inserted engravings, drawings or paintings, finds found at antique dealers, and drawings by Chas Laborde which were used to illustrate the text in 1922, as well as an autograph letter signed by Gustave Courbet to Gustave Paul Cluseret, dated February 7, 76, 2 pages. A total of 7 old drawings, 1 drawing signed Grévin, another Cicéri, 14 washes, watercolours, pastels or gouaches, 23 paintings, one of which signed Chintreuil, another Hervier, representing landscapes, portraits, genre scenes, and 14 drawings and 2 watercolours by Chas Laborde in pen and black ink. Léo Larguier (1878-1950), poet, short story writer and literary critic. He succeeded Léon Hennique at the Académie Goncourt. Singer of Saint-Germain, he is the author of Dimanches de la rue Jacob, Saint-Germain des Prés, mon village etc). He remembers his links with Cézanne by singing about Provence and the Cévennes, and by writing En compagnie des vieux peintres, or Father Corot. He is most certainly the author of the binding of the manuscript, made with the plates of a photo album, in lacquered wood decorated with mother-of-pearl. Chas Laborde (1886-1941), a pupil of William Bouguereau, Charles Laborde dit Chas Laborde was an engraver, draftsman, painter, and journalist. He worked for many newspapers such as Le rire, Le bon ton, Vanity Fair, Le Figaro or L'assiette au beurre and also illustrated many books including those of Colette, Pierre Mac Orlan, Francis Carco. He also made many theatre sets and advertising drawings.
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