Imageries (6 volumes)
Paris: Adrien Maeght Editeur [printed on the presses of Ateliers Arte Paris], 1965-1982. Multi-lingual editions (***the key to La Fable du Hasard is only in French). Six accordion-folding artist's books composed of cloth boards with color paper cover label and folding color lithographic interior, each in the publisher's lucite slipcase with blemishes to the spines of five of the volumes at the center. Top and bottom panels sit slightly off-center. All housed in the illustrated paper covered slipcase [16.5 cm x 18 cm], with moderate wear, and a bit of abrasion to the bottom edge. The books have been well preserved in their slipcases, lending them a fresh and bright appearance. Each book has a legend in multiple languages which occasionally vary. The languages include (but are not strictly limited to) the following: French, English, German, and Spanish. La Fable du Hasard is in illustrated paper over boards. Very Good. Item #71149
Le Petit Poucet (Tom Thumb), 1979; Blanche Neige (Snow White), 1974; Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), 1965; La Fable du Hasard (The Fable of Hazard), 1968; La Belle au Bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty), 1982; Cendrillon (Cinderella), 1976.
Swiss-born Warja Lavater moved to New York City in 1958, where she began designing scientific illustrations for Dell Publishing Visual series. It was at this time that Honegger-Lavater came under the influence of American street advertising and began using pictograms as graphic representations of linguistic elements in her works. Her books often contain a legend listing the meanings of the various symbols. They then proceed chronologically, with the book unfolding, and the story being told entirely by using the symbols and no words.
Bright and colorful visual symbolic reinterpretations of these classic fairy tales, by the noted Swiss artist.
Price: $2,500.00