HERMANN-PAUL. Deux cents Dessins 1897-1899 [compilation of illustrations in support of Dreyfus]

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Lot 84

(DREYFUS AFFAIR)

HERMANN-PAUL. Deux cents Dessins 1897-1899 [compilation of illustrations in support of Dreyfus]

Numerous photomechanical print illutrations. * WITH: 15 original drawings. Caricatures of French personalities. India ink on paper. Titled in pencil. Each laid to board. Many reproduced in Deux cents Dessins pp.(6), 225. Browned, few margins cracked or chipped. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, gently rubbed at edges. Sm. 4to Benezit, vol. IV, p. 672; cf. N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth & Justice (1987), fig. 47, p.89 (illus) and nos 149-153 p.282

Paris: Revue Blanche 1900

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

French illustrator and Dreyfusard, Hermann-Paul brought his skill at caricature in support of Alfred Dreyfus’ cause with numerous satirical journals. An ardent revisionist, many of Hermann-Paul’s drawings appeared in Félex Vallotton’s journal Le Cri de Paris. Indeed, he was one of the principal illustrators of the journal supporting the Dreyfus cause. Images relating to the Dreyfus Affair comprise most of this album and includes Paul’s eloquent response to Zola’s “j’Accuse” which appeared in the 16 January 1898 edition of Le Cri de Paris on p. 10. Another compilation of Hermann-Paul’s images, “Guignols,” was issued in 1899. See P. D. Cate, The Paris Cry: Graphic Artists and the Dreyfus Affair pp. 88-89 in; N.L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth & Justice (1987)