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Etching - Victorien Sardou Medium
Rare framed etching by Victorien Sardou (1831 - 1908) considered the first automatic engraving (cf andrebreton.fr)
"Quartier des Animaux chez Zoroaster"
Signed in the plate Victorien Sardou and Bernard Palissy
Circa 1860
Very nice proof on strong vellum, framing wooden sticks and goes everywhere, very slight oxidation of the sheet.
Dimensions at sight : Length 34.5 cm
Height 29.5 cm
Victorien Sardou was a playwright and a precursor of so-called mediumistic art, just like Victor Hugo.
He made a series of etchings representing the celestial residences of Palissy, Mozart, or Zoroaster on Jupiter.
These “automatic” spiritist works had been dictated to him by Bernard Palissy himself, he claimed.
A proof of "Mozart's House" was part of the André Breton collection sold by Calmels-Cohen in April 2003
"Robert de Montesquiou described and commented on Quartier des Animaux chez Zoroaster in a chapter of Thinking Roses devoted to mediumistic drawings: "We as if by a bizarre Bérain.A fantastic gymnastics session whose clowns are reminiscent of Da Vinci's flying man and Blake's creations.Ariels, Auriols, Léotards, Zemgano brothers more or less close to man; human face with cat or kanguroo ears, deer heads, monkey tail, insect antennae; acrobats fluttering or suspended in aerial aerobatics on swings, rope ladders, trapezes; standing on storied stools , stretched out on cut-out tricliniums, seated in baroque rocking chairs, under canopies, or in hammocks, themselves hung on shrubs whose same trunk bears several kinds of foliage. e is ring-shaped; grimaces, disarticulations, somersaults, croppetons, rebound legs. All in the transparent shelter of an umbelliferous shaft. » (Reeds thinking, Fasquelle, 1897, p. 110) The matrix of this etching, in steel, has been preserved and is reproduced in the catalog of the exhibition Entrance of mediums: Spiritism and Art from Hugo to Breton, which took place in 2012-2013 at the Maison Victor Hugo, in Paris. It is part of the Mr. and Mrs. Claude de Flers collection. A proof of Quartier des Animaux chez Zoroaster (collection abcd, Montreuil) was also exhibited (catalogue, p. 72)" (cf sarah-sauvin.com)
"Quartier des Animaux chez Zoroaster"
Signed in the plate Victorien Sardou and Bernard Palissy
Circa 1860
Very nice proof on strong vellum, framing wooden sticks and goes everywhere, very slight oxidation of the sheet.
Dimensions at sight : Length 34.5 cm
Height 29.5 cm
Victorien Sardou was a playwright and a precursor of so-called mediumistic art, just like Victor Hugo.
He made a series of etchings representing the celestial residences of Palissy, Mozart, or Zoroaster on Jupiter.
These “automatic” spiritist works had been dictated to him by Bernard Palissy himself, he claimed.
A proof of "Mozart's House" was part of the André Breton collection sold by Calmels-Cohen in April 2003
"Robert de Montesquiou described and commented on Quartier des Animaux chez Zoroaster in a chapter of Thinking Roses devoted to mediumistic drawings: "We as if by a bizarre Bérain.A fantastic gymnastics session whose clowns are reminiscent of Da Vinci's flying man and Blake's creations.Ariels, Auriols, Léotards, Zemgano brothers more or less close to man; human face with cat or kanguroo ears, deer heads, monkey tail, insect antennae; acrobats fluttering or suspended in aerial aerobatics on swings, rope ladders, trapezes; standing on storied stools , stretched out on cut-out tricliniums, seated in baroque rocking chairs, under canopies, or in hammocks, themselves hung on shrubs whose same trunk bears several kinds of foliage. e is ring-shaped; grimaces, disarticulations, somersaults, croppetons, rebound legs. All in the transparent shelter of an umbelliferous shaft. » (Reeds thinking, Fasquelle, 1897, p. 110) The matrix of this etching, in steel, has been preserved and is reproduced in the catalog of the exhibition Entrance of mediums: Spiritism and Art from Hugo to Breton, which took place in 2012-2013 at the Maison Victor Hugo, in Paris. It is part of the Mr. and Mrs. Claude de Flers collection. A proof of Quartier des Animaux chez Zoroaster (collection abcd, Montreuil) was also exhibited (catalogue, p. 72)" (cf sarah-sauvin.com)
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