Cyrano de Bergerac

[Prints] [Hungarian] Molnár-C., Pál (Paul); [Edmond Rostand]

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Slim quarto [28 cm] Thirty loose woodcut plates on age-toned paper measuring 18.5 cm wide by 27 cm tall. No text or publication information present, only the plates. Housed in a folder of 1/4 brown cloth with tan paper over boards, and a gilt stamped title on the front board. The folder is toned and lightly rubbed at the edges. The first plate is signed by Molnár in pencil, and numbered # 20 in an edition of only 36. The painter and graphic artist Pál Molnár-C. (1894-1891), born in Battonya, Hungary, lived and worked in a villa located in Ménesi Street on the hillside of Gellért Hill (Budapest) for 50 years. He held the surrealist style close to his heart throughout his life, and he was also heavily inspired by the Symbolist works of Ferdinand Hodler. His illustrations of Shakespeare's Corialanus and Rostrand's Cyrano de Bergerac earned him gold medals at salons in Paris, Milan, and Warsaw. After his death his younger daughter, Dr. Éva Csillag Pálné set up a family-owned private museum in 1984. "As a matter of fact all art is more or less surreal. The reality of everyday life differs from the reality of art, which stands above reality." - Pál Molnár-C.

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• Titre: Cyrano de Bergerac
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Limited Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
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