JUILARD - Lot 90

JUILARD ANDRÉ JUILLARD Après la pluie, Casterman 1998 Original plate no. 5, prepublished in Bo-Doi n° 5, February 1998. Signed. Colored inks on paper 35 × 46 cm (13.78 × 18.11 in.) A fine, very "Parisian" plate by André Juillard, whose recent death leaves a huge void in the field of French comics. This sequence recalls his main qualities: we find Louise, the heroine of Le Cahier bleu, surrounded by her friends in a restaurant after Victor's vernissage. The album's entire plot unfolds in this light-hearted conversation, which questions one of the exhibition pictures purchased by Abel, an unknown customer who is interested in the girl in the photo. The investigation begins, and clues trickle in. The drawing is precise, "narrating" alongside the story: the jogger, the waiter, the woman walking her dog, Louise's cigarette... Then comes André Juillard's own chromatic range: the right colors, discreet, elegant... just like him.