GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Gravures XIX e -XX e s. – Prenten 19de-20ste eeuw
517
VAES, Walter - 5 etchings and 2 litho.
Etchings, laid or vellum paper (unless specific mention), some with wide
margins. Stuck (traces of sticky paper and/or thumbtrack) under passepartout.
400 / 500 €
519
VAN OFFEL, Stan - Alphabet macabre. (Préface par Grégoire
Le Roy). Bruxelles, Galerie Charlet, 10 avril 1925.
In-4° : [2] ff., 24 pl., [1 f.]. En ff. Sous chemise à rabats d’éd. (fendue ou abîmée aux
pliures, trace de doigt sur les plats).
400 / 600 €
1. In San-Giorgio-dei-Greci, Venice. Drypoint, thin China paper, signed. Ref.
Lebeer 128.— 2. Memory of a church in Spain. Simili-Japan paper, signed. Ref.
Lebeer 126.— 3. Sotto portico, with a portrait of Whistler. Ref. Lebeer 47.— 4.
Barrels in a courtyard. 22,5 x 15 cm, laid paper with wide margins (browned),
signed in plate.— 5. Espalier trees, houses in the background. 14 x 18 cm, signed
in plate.— 6-7. Skaters on ice. Lithogr., black, 21 x 33 cm, signed. 2 copies: one
with very wide margins (43,5 x 54 cm), the other very drawing-like. (7 pcs)
518
VAES, Walter - Portrait of Rembrandt Bugatti. S.d.
Drypoint, 37 x 34,5 cm, Japan paper 53,5 x 43 cm, signed in graphite pencil lower
right (folds at edges).
800 / 900 €
Tirage posthume, Van Offel (Anvers 1885-1924 Bruxelles) étant décédé à
39 ans. Complet des 24 planches figurant une danse macabre, de «Acteur» à
«Zélatrice» en passant par «Ivrogne» ou «Poète». Tirage à 250 ex., un des 50 de
tête sur japon (n° 19 dont toutes les planches ont été enrichies de dessins de
squelettes à la mine de graphite, dans les marges ou le sujet (seul le dessin de la
lettre X, «Anonyme», est monogrammé).
520
VAN OFFEL, Stan - Thyl Uylenspieghel. Huit lithographies.
Bruxelles, Paelman, s.d.
In-4, en ff. (lég. brunies, souillure). Couverture grise imprimée (fendue au dos,
souillée & effrangée).
150 / 200 €
Rembrandt Bugatti (Milan 1884-1916 Paris) was the son of Carlo, the decorative
arts artist, and the younger brother of Ettore, founder of the Bugatti brand.
Enchanted by the animal world, he moved from Paris to Antwerp where the
management of the zoo there put a workshop at his disposal. During WWI he
volunteered as stretcher-bearer for paramedical work at a military hospital
in Antwerp together with his friend Vaes but then caught tuberculosis. The
experience of war triggered in Bugatti the onset of depression, aggravated by
financial problems, which eventually caused him to commit suicide by gassing
himself on 8 January 1916 in Paris, aged 31 years old.
8 lithographies en noir, numérotées et signées par l’artiste. Tirage à 60 ex.
num. (num. 28). Par S. Van Offel (Anvers 1885-Bruxelles 1924), dessinateur,
illustrateur, frère d’Edmond.
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