Daragnes Original Lithograph · Nulle Part, Canal Montmartre ·Stone Print Paris
$ 63.36
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Daragnes Original Lithograph · Nulle Part, Canal Montmartre ·Stone Print Paris. Montmartre ran on bodies. Daragnes drew those bodies. 'Nulle Part', Montmartre Paris. One of 250 sets that were issued; this impression from #163. Issued 'en feuilles' (loose sheets). Daragnès gives. Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (1886–1950) Original Lithograph — 1946 'Nulle Part', Montmartre Paris Medium: Original lithograph pulled from stone, showing a scene of Montmartre's demimonde. One of 250 sets that were issued; this impression from #163. Issued 'en feuilles' (loose sheets). The Image: Daragnès shows us... nowhere — a street or a canal, the distinction academic at this hour, the buildings pressing in under a cold pre-dawn sky. A Vins sign on the left wall offers one of the two liquids that flowed through Montmartre without ceasing — one temporary relief, the canal an option for permanent relief. Daragnès gives Nulle Part its honest geography: not a destination but a condition, the city still present around its absence, the night not quite finished with anyone. Montmartre ran on bodies. Daragnes drew those bodies. The boxer sold punishment and endurance, the tightrope walker sold the possibility of falling, the bareback rider sold the illusion of control over something that could kill her, the brothel worker in the window sold herself. Different transactions, same currency — the physical self, offered nightly to whoever was buying, in a quarter where the streets were witnesses to this market for centuries without apology or sentiment. It was an ancient arithmetic of risk, the odds of living another day growing shorter with each repetition. Daragnès lived there. He drew what he saw without flinching and without romanticizing — the empty torero suit awaiting its man, the canal at the end of the night when there is nowhere left to go. André Clot pulled it all from stone, finishing the lithographs on All Saints' Day 1946, the feast of the dead, which was either coincidence or exactly right. Year: 1946 (printed on All Saints’ Day / La Toussaint) Sheet Size: Approx. 9.5 × 11 in (24 × 28.5 cm); full sheet with margins as issued Paper: Premium Vélin de Lana Photos of the edition number and colophon are for informational purposes and are not included in the sale. Ships flat in rigid mailer and archival sleeve between rigid stiffeners.
