PLESSIX - Lot 23

PLESSIX MICHEL PLESSIX THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Delcourt 2002 Cover of the complete edition. Watercolor, pastel and graphite on paper 30.7 × 40.7 cm (12.09 × 16.02 in.) Imagine a little corner of the countryside. The air is mild, nature generous. Sitting on the soft grass beside a peaceful stream, Rat and Mole, two old friends, enjoy a spot of angling and a tasty picnic. All would be calm and pleasure, simplicity and beauty... if it weren't for the impetuous, vain and wealthy Toad, whose passions are all-consuming and risky. Farewell to tranquility... In this illustration on the front cover of the complete issue of Le Vent dans les Saules, the troublesome batrachian narrowly misses hitting Loutre, a valiant family man. In one scene, Michel Plessix sums up all the tenderness and zaniness of Kenneth Grahame's zoomorphic universe.