[ENRICHED FROM 240 ORIGINAL CARLO FARNETI'S DRAWINGS] Octave - Lot 168

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[ENRICHED FROM 240 ORIGINAL CARLO FARNETI'S DRAWINGS] Octave - Lot 168
[ENRICHED FROM 240 ORIGINAL CARLO FARNETI'S DRAWINGS] Octave MIRBEAU. The Garden of Supplices. Paris, Javal and Bourdeaux, 1927. Volume in-4 in sheets in a clasp box. Non-commercial copy on Vélin d'Arches, containing 4 states of Raphael Freida's 11 etchings: final state with and without remarks, first state and intermediate state. Unique copy enriched, in 1933, by the artist Carlo Farneti with about 230 original coloured pencil drawings, placed in the margins or in the background of the texts; as well as 10 large independent pastel compositions on grey Canson plates presented in a folder. Bears the signed autograph mention on the justification sheet: "Copy made for an amateur, including original drawings by Carlo Farneti". Most of the compositions are signed. The artist translates in a powerful and expressive line the cruel universe tinged with eroticism described by Mirbeau. He stages the unbearable - torments, tortures - in compositions of a sure aestheticism where his decorative intention is often exercised. Sometimes contributing to a kind of de-dramatization through the use of bright or light tones, lush vegetation or a feminine silhouette, and sometimes, on the contrary, reinforcing the fear and gravity of a scene through massive shadows and dark settings. Carlo Farneti was happy to illustrate a copy of his work at the request of wealthy amateurs, providing it with an impressive number of original drawings. That same year, 1933, when he decorated this copy of the Garden of Torments, he also "illuminated" with 105 drawings the original edition of L.-F. Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit (Piasa, April 11, 2002, n°276, €35,000 without expenses). It was in Naples, where he lived, that Carlo Farneti (1892-1961) had his first personal exhibition at the Galleria Corona, in 1924, but it was in France that he exercised his career as an illustrator. He accompanied Edgar Poe's Histoires extraordinaires and Nouvelles histoires (Kra, 1927-1928) with 148 etchings, La
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