Edmond SIGRIST (1882-1947) - JACK LONDON (1876-1916) - Lot 291

Edmond SIGRIST (1882-1947) - JACK LONDON (1876-1916) Rare set of illustrations (drawings, gouaches) for the French edition of "Jerry Chien des Iles": - A stencil-illustrated greeting card and a program for the 1924 Pink Library Ball - A title page with gilded highlights framed under glass - A gouache plate framed under glass - Two coasters, each featuring 7 illuminated initials and a footer - 5 gouache plates with gilded highlights featuring animated scenes (unframed) Jerry, chien des îles (original title: Jerry of Islands). Animal adventure novel, published in the USA in 1917, which appeared in France in 1922, under the title Jerry dans l'Île, then Jerry, chien des îles. Jerry is a tawny-haired Irish terrier whose owner, who lives on Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands, employs him to watch over the blacks on his plantation. Lent by his master to a South Seas sailor, he falls into the hands of cannibals, from whom he will free himself to lead an independent life. [Jack LONDON (1876-1916) - Jerry, Dog of the Islands] Jerry of the Islands (1917). Translated in 1922 as "Jerry in the Island, then as "Jerry, chien des îles". Jerry Dog of the Islands, one of London's last novels, contains two of his favourite themes the exoticism of the Solomon Islands and the animal as hero. Twin of Michael, the famous Jerry, a young tawny-haired terrier, is torn from his "family" at an early age. After belonging slaughtered by a rebellious tribe, he is passed from master to master, trying to save his skin in the his skin in the original sense of the word... "I'm going to get something fresh and lively out of it, with a dog psychology that will go straight to the heart of dog lovers and straight to the brains of psychologists who are usually harsh critics of dog psychology", wrote London. psychology", wrote London's publisher in 1915. And indeed, the novel brilliantly joins Croc-Blanc and L'Appel de la forêt in the author's animal pantheon. pantheon. Edmond SIGRIST (1882-1947). Painter, engraver, lithographer, decorator and illustrator. A student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, he studied in the studio of Luc-Olivier MERSON (ca. 1905). He exhibited in France and abroad in numerous galleries. In 1937, the French government commissioned him a 58m2 mural for the Lycée Hélène Boucher in Paris, depicting a round of children and dancing girls. girls dancing. A folio containing lithographed drawings of Jerry, chien des Îles, published by Lematte et Boinot in 1936 was a great success, and the lithographs it contains are often confused original drawings (cf. Galerie Les Atamanes, Paris).