Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
"Survivors", Engravings and Etchings by Monique Frélaut – Portraits of Holocaust Survivors – Paris, 1945 – Signed and Numbered Copy
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
Survivants eaux-fortes et pointes sèches originales de Monique Frélaut, présentées par Yanka Zlatin et Dorine Mantoux. [Survivors, Etchings and Drypoints by Monique Frélaut. published by Yanka Zlatin and Dorine Mantoux]. Paris, 1945. French.
Portfolio with 30 prints by Monique Frélaut (1912-1946) – portraits of Holocaust survivors at the French Hôtel Lutetia (one of the luxury hotels of Paris, which after the war was converted, by order of Charles de Gaulle, into a shelter for Holocaust survivors). The prints document the survivors on arrival, some still wearing camp uniform.
29 printed portraits on loose sheets (with tissue guards) and a single portrait printed on the card cover. A copy signed by the artist and numbered 78 (of an edition of 375 copies).
The portfolio was published by the Hôtel Lutetia shelter managers, French Resistance fighters Sabine Zlatin and Dorine Mantoux (referred to on the colophon by their underground names: Yanka and Dorine). Printed dedicatory text to one sheet: "To the friends who were killed by enemy bullets, who were cruelly destroyed, who were starved to death, we dedicate this collection to their mothers, widows, sons and daughters, and to all those who loved them and fought beside them for the same cause and ideal – freedom" (French).
Only a few works by artist Monique Frélaut are known of. According to the Bibliothèque nationale de France records, Frélaut was born in 1912 in Nice and died in 1946 in El Ksiba, Morocco. Her uncle was the artist Jean Frélaut (1879-1954).
[29] sheets (some folded in half), 28 cm. Original card cover, with a print. Good condition. Minor blemishes (mainly to tissue guards; prints clean). Cover slightly worn. Browning to spine. Tear to inner front hinge.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Portfolio with 30 prints by Monique Frélaut (1912-1946) – portraits of Holocaust survivors at the French Hôtel Lutetia (one of the luxury hotels of Paris, which after the war was converted, by order of Charles de Gaulle, into a shelter for Holocaust survivors). The prints document the survivors on arrival, some still wearing camp uniform.
29 printed portraits on loose sheets (with tissue guards) and a single portrait printed on the card cover. A copy signed by the artist and numbered 78 (of an edition of 375 copies).
The portfolio was published by the Hôtel Lutetia shelter managers, French Resistance fighters Sabine Zlatin and Dorine Mantoux (referred to on the colophon by their underground names: Yanka and Dorine). Printed dedicatory text to one sheet: "To the friends who were killed by enemy bullets, who were cruelly destroyed, who were starved to death, we dedicate this collection to their mothers, widows, sons and daughters, and to all those who loved them and fought beside them for the same cause and ideal – freedom" (French).
Only a few works by artist Monique Frélaut are known of. According to the Bibliothèque nationale de France records, Frélaut was born in 1912 in Nice and died in 1946 in El Ksiba, Morocco. Her uncle was the artist Jean Frélaut (1879-1954).
[29] sheets (some folded in half), 28 cm. Original card cover, with a print. Good condition. Minor blemishes (mainly to tissue guards; prints clean). Cover slightly worn. Browning to spine. Tear to inner front hinge.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and Sh'erit ha-Pletah
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and Sh'erit ha-Pletah