157 / 444
107
538
NAM, Jacques, COLETTE
- Chats. [Eaux-fortes de Jacques Nam]. Paris, chez l’artiste, [1936], gr.
in-folio (qqs rouss. sur les ff. de texte, min. rouss. marg. sur les pl.), chemise ill. à rabats en demi-
toile d’édit. (défr., mors fendus, petit manque à l’ill. collée du plat sup.).
€ 1500/2000
1er tirage
des 5 jolies eaux-fortes en couleurs de Nam et
édition originale
des 5 courts textes de
Colette. Tirage à 400 ex. dont 20 h.c. Un des 350 num. en chiffres arabes sur vélin d’Arches (n.
98), avec les eaux-fortes signées et just. 98/350 à la mine de plomb. Rare complet, les illustrations
“félines” de J. Nam (Jacques Lehman, 1881-1974) étant particulièrement recherchées.
Ref.
Carteret
XXe s., 5, p. 52. Monod 2987.
539
NAMA, George
- Monument studies. Pittsburgh, Monument Press, 1972, 4to, loose in folding
green cloth portfolio with Nama-inspired decoration on front cover, 12 pl. Good copy.
€ 200/300
Rare
1st impression
of the 12 signed and hand-numbered prints (n. 9/50). With
handwritten
dedication
to Albert. By the American painter, engraver and editor G. Nama (Pittsburg 1939).
540
NAVEZ, François-Joseph
- [Etude pour les Fileuses de Fondi], 1826. Lavis en sépia, 14,5 x 18,5
cm; signé et daté. Sous passe-partout (mouill.) et cadre (non désencadré). Manque aux coins, rouss.
€ 150/250
Etude pour “Les fileuses de Fondi”, peinture à l’huile conservée à Munich, Bayerische
Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek. Par le peintre belge néoclassique F.-J. Navez (1787-
1869). Il excelle dans l’art du portrait, où il acquiert sa renommée.
541
[Orient - China]
- [
Birds and flowers
], 20th c. Suite of 20 paintings, China ink and gouache,
silk, 18 x 12 cm. Mounted on white vellum, 25 x 19 cm, under pink covers (damaged, torn).
Cfr. ill.
€ 600/800
Very nice colourful set representing various birds (1 or 2) perched on blossoming branches.
542
[Orient - China]
- [
Chinese landscape
], 1868? Watercolour painting on fine cloth (linen?), 107 x
53 cm, mounted on paper 152 x 66 cm; red ink stamp in the lower right corner, text with underneath
a red stamp on the left upperside. Scroll maintained on both sides in a hardboard tube covered with
linen. Two tears of +/- 10 cm repaired, one minor stain. Nice item.
Cfr. ill.
€ 1500/2500
Attractive painting showing an impressive mountaineous landscape. Under a tree, a person is
reading inside a house, attentively watched by a crane standing on the lakeside.
According to experts working on ancient Chinese history and language, the painting is made
after
Dong Wengong
(1740-1818), a famous artist and official in Quing Dynasty, by
Ji Xiang Guan
Zhu Ren
as shown in one of the seals on the scroll. Above the characters “Dong Wengong” is
written “Ni”, which means “to follow” or “to imitate”. The only “Ji Xiang Guan Zhu” found in
the reference books of the Quing Dynasty is Li Mulong, a painter living in Wujiang, quite close
to Shanghai. The only resource mentioning his name is a supplement to a dictionary recording
painters who are active between 1851-1861. Moreover, Li Mulong was a pupil of Liu Zihe (1806-
1875). So, if Li was the author of this scroll, the most probable date seems to be 1868.
543
[Orient - China]
-
Gravures sur bois de la Chine nouvelle
. Pékin, Editions en Langues Etrangères,
1956, album in-folio, en ff., sous portfolio à lacets, 4 pp.-40 pl. Bon ex.
€ 100/200
Rare ouvrage illustré de
40 gravures
sur bois en noir et blanc et en couleurs par des artistes chinois
modernes.
544
[Orient - Japan]
-
ASAI, Hironobu
- [Moyo bijutsu benran. Kyoto, Yamada Naosaburô, 1893?],
8vo, 18 x 12,3 cm, sewn, ill. cover, [25] ff. (a few pale stains). Good condition.
€ 150/200
Titled leaf and 48 col. wood engraved patterns for kimonos; each p. presents a kimono topped
with 2 sketches of textile designs. Cover ill. with a willow branch and a blossoming cherry branch.
Attractive publication.