Ylla, Signed (4 results)

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale, Édition illustrée. Poitiers, chez l'auteur, 1957 In 4 (27,50 cm x 37,50 cm), 28 pp. + 10 gravures en couleurs (sous passe-partout) + la suite (sous passe-partout) + 1 gouache originale en couleurs, signée - "Pase de Quebrento" (sous passe-partout) En feuilles sous couvertures souples. Emboîtage. Exemplaire en très bon état. Emboîtage avec quelques traces d'usures. Édition originale numérotée 2/10 avec une gouache originale, 10 gravures en couleurs, une suite. Livre entièrement réalisé à la main par l'auteur. Signé au colophon. Ouvrage complet. Signé par l'auteur.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ylla (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very Good; bumped spot with small tear in paper covering the spine; some rubbing/bumping to extremities; some minor scuffs to paper covered boards; binding visible in gaps between signatures 1&2, 2&3, but signatures are not loose; else Fine. In a new archival clear plastic dust jacket. Signed First Edition. Inscribed on title page: "pour Anne Hyde Greet, avec un vrai plaisir, Jacques Prévert, Paris Juillet 1968." Greet (1928-2023) was an American professor whose 1968 book "Jacques Prévert's Word Games" may have fostered friendship between them, either before or after publication. Laid in is a four-page typescript, with minor smudging and creasing at edges and the mark of a rusty paper clip at the top edge, titled "En Petits Morceaux", inscribed on the first page: "Ete 1968. à Anne Hyde Greet, en tres heureux souvenir, Jacques Rève-Vert." This inscription, and the style and content of the typescript, point to Prévert as the author. The typescript begins with an excerpt from "Les atomes de l'écriture" by Henri Mitterand, asserting the importance of textual analysis and structuralism, and suggesting the dismantling of the text into small pieces to better understand the "mysteries" therein. From there Prévert launches into a free-ranging examination of the "mysteries" using analogies, puns, anagrams, neologisms, words and ideas in unusual order, and brings in the raccoon (from his famous poem "Inventory") which has become a synecdoche for surreal heterogeneous assemblages. He asks, why not consult the "Annagrammaire" rather than the "Big Computer", and offers further satirical musings on the strivings to understand text more clearly using the devices in question, ending with cryptic quotes from a "caveman" conference's attendees, the misanthropic caveman and the philanthropic anthropoid. It's unknown whether this charming yet serious jeu d'esprit was ever published. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Cuadernos de Arte Bernardo Ylla,Chez l'auteur, 1957, 1 volume in-folio de 360 x 260 mm environ, (1) f. blanc, 28 pages, (1) f. (Achevé d'imprimé), suivent les 30 planches sérigraphiées toutes siggnées, (2) ff. blancs. En feuillets sous couverture cartonnée à rabats non titrée et étui illustré. Un des 26 exemplaires, exemplaire A signé par B. Ylla, complet des 10 gravures colorées dans des harmonies différentes, des 10 gravures en couleurs et de la suite en noire. Etui frotté, déchirure restaurée au scotch transparent sur la garde inférieure sinon intérieur très frais, bel exemplaire. "Ouvrage exécuté en sérigraphie. Toutes les pages, texte et gravures, ont été dessinés directement sur les écrans de soie. L'artiste a composé et dessiné les caratères. Il a fait lui-même, à la main, le tirage de chaque exemplaire."YLLA est un peintre Catalan, réfugié politique pendant le guerre civile Espagnole, qui vécut à Poitiers (rue de La Tranchée) et partagea la vie de Suzanne Favriou, professeur aux Beaux Arts. Il est décédé en 1976.

Original vintage silver gelatin photograph,image size 9 5/8 x 7 3/4 in. [24.4 x 19.7 cm.]. Matted to archival standards with a window over-mat, framed and glazed with uv protecting glass, in a pewter colored wooden frame 17 3/8 x 15 1/4 inches. There is a tiny crease to the upper left tip; else a fine print. Camilla Koffler, "Ylla", 1911 - 1955) was born in Vienna, attended boarding school in Budapest, and studied sculpture in Belgrade. When she discovered that her name, Camilla stood for "Camel" in Serbian, she changed it to Ylla. In 1931, she moved to Paris and worked as an assistant to photographer, Ergy Landau. In 1932, she began what would be her "calling": photographing animals. In 1940, MoMA was instrumental in obtaining an entry visa for her and she settled in the U.S. in 1941. She published several collections on dogs, cats, ducks and chimps. This photograph of a Spaniel chewing a bone on which is printed in pale blue crayon "Merry Xmas", and is SIGNED in pink crayon, "Ylla", is a vintage photograph with a ferrotyped surface, circa 1950.