Raymond Peynet, the creator of the famous "passionate couple", makes a typical drawing and signs it inside a children's book.
French children's book "le livre des indiens" with a drawing and signature by Raymond Peynet who did all the illustrations.
The author, Bertrand Flornoy, wrote a dedication on the same page.
In French.
27 pages.
19 cm x 22 cm.
1954.
Good condition of conservation.
Unique piece.
Raymond Peynet (1908 - 1999) was a French cartoonist, born in Paris, who created illustrations for advertising, catalogs and department stores. In 1942, he created a famous couple of lovers, "les amoureux de Peynet", who internationally symbolize French romanticism. There are four museums in the world, two in France and two in Japan.
Peynet's work is unique; it celebrates with great poetry romanticism, love, lovers... values and feelings that are mistreated by society today. This letter written in 1944, in the middle of the Second World War, is very symbolic: love against war...
Symbols of "French Romanticism", Raymond Peynet's original drawings are extremely rare and highly sought after by collectors around the world, especially in Europe, the United States and Japan.
The book "le livre des indiens" is a classic of children's literature: copies of this first edition are rare and Peynet's drawing representing "two little birds", above his signature, adds even more value to this already unusual document.
