Art Books, Artists' craft.

     Following Manet's tracks illustrating The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, the greatest painters tried to harmonize Text and Image.
     Today, the Artists illustrating books for the Editions Carrés d'Art thus carry on a fertile tradition.
     Sometimes at a distance of several centuries in time, their sensitivity meets and combines with the Poet's, and they succeed in saying with their brush or burin what the author painted with his words.
     It is a pleasure for us to introduce these great Artists, who are also and overall friends of ours.

From l. to r. on the wall: François Maréchal, Henry W.Westel On the canvas, from t. to b. : A.-D. Steinlen , Danièle Fuchs , Hélène Nué, Francis de Lassus Saint-Geniès, Bernard Louëdin. Sitting: Etoile Davyctoire.

     Etoile Davyctoire, that we want to thank for her kind help with the image above, realized her first book illustrations for the Editions Carrés d'Art with "Hier et aujourd'hui".
     Graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués in Paris, she started her career realizing numerous theater costumes and sets.
     Supported by A.-D. Steinlen, she won first prize at the 1988 stained-glass windows Biennal during the "Maîtres et Artistes Contemporains" exhibition in Tournus abbey (France) for her pictorial work.
     Since then, Etoile Davyctoire has had many exhibitions, illustrated a classical music compact disc (Mélodies by Duparc) and performed live painting for an experimental TV show, while still designing and realizing costumes and sets for theater, several ballets and lyric art.