Ibels, Henri- Gabriel. Allons-y!- Histoire Contemporaine Racontée & Dessinée par H. G. Ibels [“Let’s Go!- Contemporary History Recounted and illustrated by Henry Gabriel Ibels”]

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

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Lot 82

(DREYFUS AFFAIR)

Ibels, Henri- Gabriel. Allons-y!- Histoire Contemporaine Racontée & Dessinée par H. G. Ibels [“Let’s Go!- Contemporary History Recounted and illustrated by Henry Gabriel Ibels”]

FIRST EDITION. Illutrated frontispiece and colophon printed in red and black. Numerous photomechanical print illustrations. DELUXE LARGE-PAPER COPY. Inscribed on half-title by the author to FERDINAND LABORI, defence Counsel for Dreyfus “Who gave his great eloquence for the most important cause of the Century.” pp. (2),112,(2). Lightly browned. Original crimson morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-titled and dated on spine, gently rubbed at extremities, marbled end-papers. 4to cf. N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth & Justice (1987), plate 43, p. 176 (frontispiece) and nos155-165 p.283

Paris: P. V. Stock 1898

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Following Emille Zola’s challenge to the French army in the cause of Alfred Dreyfus, the battle between the Dreyfusards and the anti-Dreyfusards was no more energeticaly and artfully fought than on the pages of the French illutrated press. Among the principal caricaturists for the Dreyfusards, journalist and illustrator Henri-Gabriel Ibels co- founded “Le Sifflet,” a journal containing only captioned illustrations, with the specific purpose of promoting the revision of the Dreyfus case. In Allons-y! published in 1898, Ibels recounts the events surrounding the Dreyfus Affair thus far and incorporates all of his illustrations for Le Siffet up to that point. See P. D. Cate, The Paris Cry: Graphic Artists and the Dreyfus Affair pp. 90-94 in N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair