Anna Staritsky

(1908 - 1981)

10581

Albert Dasnoy

Le sire de l'Enclu

The lord of the Enclu

Paris: Cercle de Bonaguil, 1968

345 x 225 mm. 56 pages

Edition: 50. Copy nr. 47/50

Albert Dasnoy (1901-1992) was a Belgian painter and essayist, who worked as a teacher in art history at the Queen Elisabeth College of Music in Brussels. Between 1940 and 1976 he published a series of monographs on Belgian artists and Belgian art history. He also published a collection of stories of which Le sire de l ‘Enclu is an example. For this story about the return to his stately home by a baron who fought in the war, Staritsky designed a series of etchings, mainly in black, to express the horrors of war and the traumatic post-war experiences of the main character of the tale. The wrappers of the book, original a handmade Auvergne paper by the Richard de Bas mills, are reproduced for the cover of this publication.

References:

Penaranda 1992, nr. 17 

2016 Eindhoven VAM, № 40