ROBERT PILLODS (1908-1990) PIERRE EMMANUEL (1916-1984) LOT OF 3 BOOKS, LIMITED EDITIONS : DANCES, 1956 - IMAGES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, 1950 - IMAGES FROM THE GOSPELS, 1954

IN FRENCH 1) DANCES, 1956 Introduction by Pierre Emmanuel. Paris, Aux dépens de l'auteur, s.d., bookbinder Pierre Engel. Limited edition. 55 lithographs in black, in folio on Auvergne paper, number 11/300. In original slipcase. 34.2 x 27.5 x 3 cm 2) IMAGES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, 1950 Introduction by Pierre Emmanuel. Paris, Éditions Messages, 1950. Limited edition. 90 illustrated plates, in folio, on wove paper, number 336/500. Proof of print run. In original slipcase. 36.5 x 26.5 x 5.7 cm 3) IMAGES FROM THE GOSPELS, 1954 Introduction by Pierre Emmanuel. Paris, Aux dépens de l'auteur, 1954. Limited edition. 56 illustrated plates, in folio, on wove paper, number 336/500. Printing receipt. Each scene is numbered in handwritten Roman numerals at the top centre of the page. At the bottom of the page is written in cursive script the Bible verse depicted with its precise reference. In its original slipcase. 36.5 x 26.5 x 4 cm Provenance : Private collection, South of France Robert Pillods, a French painter, is a committed artist from the Montbéliard region. Alongside his secular work, a large part of his oeuvre is devoted to putting the Bible into images. In 1951, he moved to Paris as an artist. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon d'Automne and several galleries in Paris, Basel, Casablanca and Barcelona. Pierre Emmanuel, a literary pseudonym that became the legal surname of Noël Jean Mathieu French writer, journalist, poet and essayist, elected to the Académie française in 1968. Chairman of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel from 1975. He designed the Vidéothèque de Paris and the Maison de la Poésie.