PLESSIX - Lot 36

PLESSIX MICHEL PLESSIX LE VENT DANS LES SABLES Les Crayons III, Delcourt 2013 Original illustration created for an ex-libris in this head edition. Signed. Watercolor, Indian ink and pastel highlights on paper 41.7 × 29.6 cm (16.42 × 11.65 in.) Between Impressionism and Japonism! For this illustration, Michel Plessix draws on the energy and inspiration of the works of the Nabi movement, with their pure, vivid colors and singular sense of perspective - artists such as Georges Lacombe, Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis, whom he discovered thanks to his great-uncle and great-aunt - as well as the work of Henri Rivière, one of his favorite artists, and even the prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige. Michel Plessix signs this superb illustration for Les Crayons III, a deluxe edition of the Le Vent dans les Sables series.