FARRÈRE, CLAUDE–FOUQUERAY, CHARLES, ILLUSTRATOR

JONQUES ET SAMPANS. PARIS: HORIZONS DE FRANCE, 1945

FIRST EDITION, one of 525 copies, 4to (283 x 230mm.), 148 coloured illustrations, 16 full-page, in sheets in original wrappers, card chemise and slipcase, chemise with slight wear at folds

The high-quality printed illustrations offer a sharp-eyed account of Charles Fouqueray's voyages from Singapore to Hong Kong, Macao, and Shanghai. Representing the different shapes of boats in these regions, they aꦫlso focus on the🀅 local sailors and fishermen. Fouqueray's use of an extensive palette to depict the sea's various tints and shades conveys a poetic atmosphere to his illustrations

The French author Claude Farrère (1876-1957) became known for his novels set in exotic places. After a twenty-five-year career in the Army, he decided to concentrate entirely on writing and won the Prix Goncourt in 1905 for his novel Les Civilisés.

Charles Fouqueray (1869-1956) studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where one of his masters was the well-known Academic painter Alexandre Cabanel. First interested in painting, he then specialised in illustration, in news magazines such as Le Monde Illustré and L'llustration.

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