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1958réf. 38387Décines Décines-Charpieu: Marc Barbezat 1958. Fine. Marc Barbezat Décines Décines-Charpieu 1958 15.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition one of 32 numbered copies on Japon nacre paper the tirage de tête. A fine copy. Marc Barbezat unknown
1958réf. 43776Paris L'Arbalte 1958 In-12, daim gris trs fonc entirement recouvert d'un dcor rptition de petits motifs abstraits incrusts en box verni noir, rehauss de jeux de bandes horizontales irrgulires mosaques en box noir avec chaque extrmit un petit clou argent; nom de l'auteur et titre de l'ouvrage en petites capitales pousses au palladium sur les bandes passant par le dos; doublures de mme peau que les plats, gardes de daim gris clair, non rogn, couverture imprime. Bote-tui (Florent Rousseau, 2013).Edition originale. Exemplaire numrot sur vlin de Lana. Trs belle reliure de Florent Rousseau, parfaitement adapte l'esprit du livre.
1793réf. 2495809/07/1793. Following the execution of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in January 1793 the French revolutionary government found itself at war with Spain the Netherlands and Great Britain. It dispatched Edmond Charles Genêt as minister to the United States for the purpose of enlisting American assistance to the fullest extent possible. Genêt arrived in Charleston South Carolina on April 8 1793 – calling himself “Citizen Genêt” to emphasize the revolutionary title. He received a warm welcome and immediately began to issue privateering commissions that authorized the bearers regardless of their country of origin to seize British merchant ships and their cargo for personal profit all with the approval and protection of the French Government. President Washington saw this as a dangerous attempt to draw the new United States into a European war and on April 22 issued his Proclamation of Neutrality declaring the U.S. a neutral nation in the conflict and threatening legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to the warring countries. Genet then proceeded to the capital at Philadelphia and was met with acclaim and jubilation everywhere he went as many Americans supported the French Revolution’s goals of liberty equality fraternity. He was officially received by Washington on the afternoon of May 18th but Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson soon informed him that the United States considered the outfitting of French privateers in American ports to be a violation of the U.S. policy of neutrality. Genet ignored this warning and in fact threatened to take his case directly to the American people bypassing official government opposition. Genêt was thus willing to challenge Washington and risk being seen as a foreign meddler in American domestic affairs. Sometime in the spring of 1793 the French frigate Embuscade commandeered the British vessel Little Sarah and dragged it into Philadelphia. The ship was there outfitted as a French privateer and renamed La Petite Démocrate. On June 22nd the Washington administration began to investigate the disturbing claims coming from the nation's capitol. There was talk of sending an armed brigade from the state of Pennsylvania to confront Genet. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson visited Genet in an attempt to secure his promise that the vessel would not leave Philadelphia before the President’s return. According to Jefferson’s account of the meeting Genet “said he should not be justified in detaining her. I told him it would be considered a very serious offence indeed if she should go away; that the government was determined on that point and thinking it was right would go through with it. After some hesitation he said he could not make any promise it would be out of his duty but that he was very happy in being able to inform me that the vessel was not in readiness and therefore could not sail that day.… And whenever I tried to fix it to the President’s return he gave the same answer that she would not be ready for some time but with the look and gesture which showed he meant I should understand she would not be gone before that time."" On July 8 Washington Hamilton Jefferson and Knox met at Independence Hall. Note of the meeting read: ""The secretary of the Treasury and The secy of War are of opinion that it is expedient that immediate measures should be taken provisionally for establishing a battery on Mud Island under cover of a party of Militia with direction that if the Brig Sarah should attempt to depart before the pleasure of the President shall be known concerning her military coercion be employed to arrest and prevent her progress. The Secretary of State dissents from this opinion."" Jefferson evidently then turned to Genet who was in Philadelphia to write his own rationale that he would send just 2 days later to Washington enclosing this note with a recommendation that armed conflict not be commenced as he had advocated at Independence Hall. He judged Genet's non-committal along with conciliatory language as promise enough that the action would not be taken prior to President Washington's return. Autograph memorandum signed Philadelphia July 9 1793 to Thomas Jefferson Genet's draft pages 1 and 2 signed in the margin. ""Note pertaining to la Petite Démocrate captured by frigate Embuscade heretofore la Petite Sarah that M. Genet has had armed on account of the Republic and to which the exit is being opposed."" ""You have asked me details about the Brigantine la Petite Démocrate heretofore la Petite Sarah found presently armed and ready to leave Delaware. This vessel Sir of English property armed by our enemies with 4 cannons and other arms has been taken by the Frigate of the French Republic l'ambuscade and sent to Philadelphia. The construction being light and strong her body lined with copper her molding superior her rigging and her masts in good shape I have judged to act on the Embuscade Captain's report and that provided by other sailors that the acquisition of this vessel was advantageous to the Republic and this consideration added to the wish I had to procure employment for a rather large amount of French sailors being there exposed to the danger which often comes by being idle and miserable made me determined to take her on behalf of the State. ""I had it repaired right away. I did so using cannons found on board 4 French vessels. I left the command to the Citizen Amiot officer of the Republic. I will have it sent out armed with a commission of the Executive Council along with my instructions as soon as possible. I have to confine Monsieur that relating these facts which are not susceptible for discussion from me and which should not present any difficulties to your government."" On July 11 Jefferson wrote to Washington ""Papers requiring the President’s instant attention"" enclosing the final version of this very note."" unknown
1793réf. 2495809/07/1793. Following the execution of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in January 1793 the French revolutionary government found itself at war with Spain the Netherlands and Great Britain. It dispatched Edmond Charles Genêt as minister to the United States for the purpose of enlisting American assistance to the fullest extent possible. Genêt arrived in Charleston South Carolina on April 8 1793 – calling himself “Citizen Genêt” to emphasize the revolutionary title. He received a warm welcome and immediately began to issue privateering commissions that authorized the bearers regardless of their country of origin to seize British merchant ships and their cargo for personal profit all with the approval and protection of the French Government. President Washington saw this as a dangerous attempt to draw the new United States into a European war and on April 22 issued his Proclamation of Neutrality declaring the U.S. a neutral nation in the conflict and threatening legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to the warring countries. Genet then proceeded to the capital at Philadelphia and was met with acclaim and jubilation everywhere he went as many Americans supported the French Revolution’s goals of liberty equality fraternity. He was officially received by Washington on the afternoon of May 18th but Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson soon informed him that the United States considered the outfitting of French privateers in American ports to be a violation of the U.S. policy of neutrality. Genet ignored this warning and in fact threatened to take his case directly to the American people bypassing official government opposition. Genêt was thus willing to challenge Washington and risk being seen as a foreign meddler in American domestic affairs. Sometime in the spring of 1793 the French frigate Embuscade commandeered the British vessel Little Sarah and dragged it into Philadelphia. The ship was there outfitted as a French privateer and renamed La Petite Démocrate. On June 22nd the Washington administration began to investigate the disturbing claims coming from the nation's capitol. There was talk of sending an armed brigade from the state of Pennsylvania to confront Genet. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson visited Genet in an attempt to secure his promise that the vessel would not leave Philadelphia before the President’s return. According to Jefferson’s account of the meeting Genet “said he should not be justified in detaining her. I told him it would be considered a very serious offence indeed if she should go away; that the government was determined on that point and thinking it was right would go through with it. After some hesitation he said he could not make any promise it would be out of his duty but that he was very happy in being able to inform me that the vessel was not in readiness and therefore could not sail that day.… And whenever I tried to fix it to the President’s return he gave the same answer that she would not be ready for some time but with the look and gesture which showed he meant I should understand she would not be gone before that time."" On July 8 Washington Hamilton Jefferson and Knox met at Independence Hall. Note of the meeting read: ""The secretary of the Treasury and The secy of War are of opinion that it is expedient that immediate measures should be taken provisionally for establishing a battery on Mud Island under cover of a party of Militia with direction that if the Brig Sarah should attempt to depart before the pleasure of the President shall be known concerning her military coercion be employed to arrest and prevent her progress. The Secretary of State dissents from this opinion."" Jefferson evidently then turned to Genet who was in Philadelphia to write his own rationale that he would send just 2 days later to Washington enclosing this note with a recommendation that armed conflict not be commenced as he had advocated at Independence Hall. He judged Genet's non-committal along with conciliatory language as promise enough that the action would not be taken prior to President Washington's return. Autograph memorandum signed Philadelphia July 9 1793 to Thomas Jefferson Genet's draft pages 1 and 2 signed in the margin. ""Note pertaining to la Petite Démocrate captured by frigate Embuscade heretofore la Petite Sarah that M. Genet has had armed on account of the Republic and to which the exit is being opposed."" ""You have asked me details about the Brigantine la Petite Démocrate heretofore la Petite Sarah found presently armed and ready to leave Delaware. This vessel Sir of English property armed by our enemies with 4 cannons and other arms has been taken by the Frigate of the French Republic l'ambuscade and sent to Philadelphia. The construction being light and strong her body lined with copper her molding superior her rigging and her masts in good shape I have judged to act on the Embuscade Captain's report and that provided by other sailors that the acquisition of this vessel was advantageous to the Republic and this consideration added to the wish I had to procure employment for a rather large amount of French sailors being there exposed to the danger which often comes by being idle and miserable made me determined to take her on behalf of the State. ""I had it repaired right away. I did so using cannons found on board 4 French vessels. I left the command to the Citizen Amiot officer of the Republic. I will have it sent out armed with a commission of the Executive Council along with my instructions as soon as possible. I have to confine Monsieur that relating these facts which are not susceptible for discussion from me and which should not present any difficulties to your government."" On July 11 Jefferson wrote to Washington ""Papers requiring the President’s instant attention"" enclosing the final version of this very note."" unknown books
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réf. 25554Fresnes, sans éditeur, Septembre 1942, in-8, en feuilles, couverture rempliée sur papier teinté rose.Édition originale rare du premier livre de l'auteur. Selon son futur éditeur, Marc Barbezat, Genet aurait confié l'impression de la plaquette à l'un de ses co-détenus à la prison de Fresnes, typographe de métier qui purgeait une peine pour avoir imprimé de faux tickets d'alimentation et devait être libéré quelques temps avant lui.Tirée à une petite centaine d'exemplaires, elle aurait été imprimée aux frais de Genet sur du papier de différentes qualités, détourné, dit-on, des stocks réservés à l'administration allemande.Très bel envoi autographe signé : A Jean Ballard dont la gentillesse me permit il y a 10 ans d'aller balayer les cours des jésuites. J'ai pu bouffer alors. Veuillez mon cher ami me permettre de vous le rappeler. Un tel souvenir vaut mieux pour moi que tel autre qui ne serait que littéraire Jean Genet.L’exemplaire comporte 15 corrections autographes à l’encre noire de l’auteur.2 lettres autographes signées jointes à Jean BALLARD. 4 pages in-4 ou in-12, la première, sur papier lignée, Toul, Jean Genet Caporal au 22e R.T.A. 2e Cie sans date (1935), la seconde Val de Grâce (Paris), 8 avril 1936.Rares lettres anciennes et inédites de Genet au directeur des Cahiers du Sud. Genet qui s'enrôle plusieurs fois durant ces années, est en garnison à Toul affecté au 22e Régiment de Tirailleurs algériens. Après un changement de corps il sera incorporé au Régiment d'Infanterie Colonial du Maroc. C'est du R.I.C.M., alors l'un des plus prestigieux régiments de France, devant la Légion Étrangère, que Genet sera porté déserteur.Il est tard, presque trop tard pour oser me rappeler à vous, mais l'accueil que vous me fîtes il y a bientôt 2 ans aux «Cahiers», votre bonté et votre patience me donnent de l'audace. Peut-être avez-vous oublié un garçon gauche, perdu dans Marseille, abrité un moment par les Jésuites, qui fut vous demander conseils ? Conseils pratiques et spirituels. Monsieur Ballard si vous l'avez oublié, je me souviens moi, que vous me dites : «une âme c'est quelque chose qui se touche, c'est palpable, je crois que vous avez une âme». D'aventure, il a été en Italie conduit dans une prison fasciste, en Autriche vagabondant, en Espagne mendiant (ou presque)... Les soucis spirituels et littéraires cèdent le pas aux nécessités immédiates. L'Armée enfin met, pour un temps bref, un terme à ces prodigalités. Il a donné à un camarade féru de poésie l'adresse des Cahiers du Sud afin qu'il se procure quelques numéros (...) Genet va découvrir un article épatant : Il est signé Benjamin FONDANE et s'appelle : «La conscience malheureuse». Et il cite Chestov : «Tôt ou tard la philosophie deviendra une philosophie «en plein air» et plus loin «lorsque vous perdez la route, alors... «Autre chose commence qui n'est ni l'esprit ni le logos: le voici. Ce ne sera pas «la perception laborieuse de quelque chose. Ce sera quelque chose «que nous saisirons immédiatement - ou le Rien». Pour qui a roulé, à droite, à gauche, titubé et tenté de se justifier pas mal d'actes nécessités par les rigueurs d'une vie malaisée, vous pensez si de telles affirmations sont un réconfort. Je ne connais pas Monsieur Fondane, et sans doute ne tient-il pas autrement à savoir que j'existe, mais celui qui a été touché par une idée, qu'il ait le droit de dire sa sympathie... Monsieur Jean Ballard m'excuserez-vous d'avoir été aussi bavard, d'un mauvais bavardage ? La caserne m'isole terriblement. Elle est bourrée de gens qui jugent intellectuellement et pas toujours intelligent (...)Je ne puis avoir l'audace de penser que vous vous souvenez de moi, quand j'allai, sur votre invitation, aux «Cahiers», je fus reçu très aimablement par, sans doute, madame Ballard. Permettez donc que je me représente : Jean Genet, un jour en détresse à Marseille, cherchant l'appui avec des consolations, des Cahiers, et échouant chez les Jésuites (...) Depuis, j'ai été affecté, en vue de mon envoi à Shanghai, au R.I.C.M., à Aix en Provence, et aujourd'hui je suis au Val de Grace où m'a conduit un stupide accident au bras et à la jambe. Et ma lettre n'est que pour vous demander s'il ne vous reste pas quelques numéros des Cahiers du Sud, ou des volumes édités par eux, que vous pourriez nous faire parvenir. La littérature des «Foyers du Soldat» est immonde, et un bain de littérature vraie, ferait un bien immense, moral donc physique, à moi d'abord et à toute la chambrée. Il ne sait trop si sa requête est décente et s'excuse d'adresser de telles lettres mais il assure Jean Ballard qu'il en aurait grande reconnaissance, et qu'il ferait œuvre pie (...)
1942réf. 63635S. n. | Fresnes 1942 | 14 x 21.50 cm | en feuilles sous couverture rose
1942réf. 63635Fresnes: S. n. 1942. Fine. S. n. Fresnes 1942 14 x 21.50 cm en feuilles sous couverture rose First edition of Jean Genet's debut work written at Fresnes printed in a few copies and published at the authors expense which appeared clandestinely while he was serving a prison sentence for book theft. The pamphlet thirteen pages unbound and unpaginated was printed on brown paper under a pink or white cover. Our copy is housed in a half old-rose box chemise boards of geometrically patterned paper slipcase trimmed in old-rose box the ensemble signed by Thomas Boichot. « J'ai dédié ce poème à la mémoire de mon ami Maurice Pilorge dont le corps et le visage radieux hantent mes nuits sans sommeil. ». Thus Jean Genet explained the genesis of this poem a tribute to « l'assassin de 20 ans » guillotined with whom he shared the last forty days. According to François Sentein biographer of Maurice Pilorge L'Assassin et son bourreau the two men never actually met and Jean Genet would make him into an imagined companion « mort avec l'insouciance d'un dandy » Edmund White Jean Genet. Jean Cocteau who would become both friend and guardian angel to Jean Genetsaving him from life imprisonment a few years laterwrote in his Journal: « Parfois il m'arrive un miracle. Par exemple Le Condamné à mort de Jean Genet. Je crois qu'il n'en existe que quatre exemplaires. Il a déchiré le reste. Ce long poème est une splendeur. Jean Genet sort de Fresnes la plaquette est datée de la prison « Fresnes septembre 1942 ». Poème érotique à la gloire de Maurice Pilorge assassin de vingt ans exécuté le 12 mars 1939 à Saint-Brieuc. L'érotisme de Genet ne choque jamais. Son obscénité n'est jamais obscène. Un grand mouvement magnifique domine tout. La prose qui débute est courte insolente hautaine. Style parfait. » Extremely rare and very attractive copy as published. S. n. hardcover
1942réf. 172551Fresnes: September 1942. Presentation copy of Genet's rare debut with his corrections First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page to his friend Boris Kochno and containing several corrections in Genet's hand. Genet wrote the poem while imprisoned at Fresnes for stealing books. The manuscript was smuggled out and privately printed in a tiny edition. The inscription reads: "à Boris ces quelques mots mais bien davantage parce qu'il aime déjà Guy plutôt qu'à cause de sa sympathie par mon poème - Jean Genet" "These few words are for Boris but much more because he already likes Guy than because of his appreciation for my poem". Kochno 1904-1990 was celebrated for his work with the Ballets Russes and Les Ballets des Champs-Élysées through which he helped reinvigorate ballet in France. Genet's biographer Edmund White credits a small circle of distinguished gay artists which included Kochno with inspiring Genet to write about homosexuality with unprecedented frankness and power. The Guy named in the inscription is likely Lucien-Guy Noppé Genet's fellow inmate and lover. Noppé was a major inspiration for Miracle de la rose 1946 and Journal du voleur 1949 and the subject of several of Genet's poems including "Boxeur endormi" and "À Guy". On 21 July 1943 Genet sent "À Guy" in manuscript to Kochno and his lover Christian Bérard. Bérard later designed the sets and costumes for the first production of Genet's Les Bonnes 1947. Copies in pink wrappers are also known; no priority has been established. Octavo pp. 16. Original white wrappers printed in black pages loose within as issued. Housed in a custom black solander box. Faint foxing to lightly creased wrappers small burnt hole to front cover internally fresh. A well-preserved copy of this fragile publication. see Edmund White Jean Genet 1993 p. 226. unknown
1949réf. 124273Geneva: aux dépens d'un ami 1949. The first numbered copy with Genet's birthday card to a friend Signed limited edition large paper issue the tirage de tête number 1 of 10 copies numbered in roman numerals signed by Genet and printed on Vélin d'Arches paper from a complete edition of 410. Laid in is an autograph note written by Genet slipped inside a rice-paper birthday card with mawkish hand-painted decorations. The first part of the inscription in a neat hand satirizes the sentimentality of the card with a string of asinine rhymes: "Cette carte se mange comme le pain des anges mon âme de la fange tirée par vous ô Lange qui êtes sans mélange sauf de fleurs et d'oranges votre âme dans ses langes purifierait le Gange. Dans le ciel des mésanges on hurle vos louanges" "This card can be eaten like angel's bread my soul of mire pulled by you oh swaddling sheets unadulterated except for flowers and oranges your swaddling soul would purify the Ganges. In the blue tits' sky they howl your praise". The second part in a much looser hand - "Eh bien ma petite mon ange je suis très simple très gentil et je ne vous souhaite en vous embrassant que du bonheur votre Plantagenet" "Well my sweet little thing my angel I am very simple very kind and as I kiss you I only want to wish you happiness your Plantagenet" - recalls the interrogation scene in Miracle de la Rose 1946 in which the narrator's name "Genet" is turned into "Plantagenet" by the interrogator. Loose quarto quires held in the original card chemise lithographed chemise titles half-title title and dedication page. With the original grey card slipcase. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Chemise faintly tanned tiny closed tear at head of spine light spotting to lower margins; slipcase a little rubbed at extremities and with one tiny stain. A bright and fresh copy in excellent condition. unknown
1947réf. 91769n. l.: Paul Morihiens. n. 1947. Fine. One of a 9-copy issue of this celebrated clandestine novel with an original drawing by Cocteau Paul Morihien s. n. n. l. s. d. 1947 ; lettre : fin mars 1944 25 x 32.5 cm En feuilles sous chemise et étui First edition. One of 10 copies on vélin de Lana lettered G around which Genet has signed in blue ink signed by Genet at the limitation page most limited deluxe issue except for a unique copy. Complete with the loose leaf beginning with Une brusque lassitude.. With an autograph letter signed by Jean Genet on one page with customary fold marks from mailing published in Edmund White Jean Genet pp. 260-261. Illustrated with 29 erotic lithographs by Jean Cocteau and an original pencil drawing by Cocteau as well as a suite of the illustrations presenting some foxing on certain plates. Loose leaves in the publishers wrappers and laced slipcase with the upper board detached wood slipcase square spine with slide mechanism on the spine bearing the title and author engraved in red. An exceptional copy with a suite of the illustrations on Chine paper and an original drawing by Cocteau also featured in the book on p. 177. Also with an important autograph letter signed dating from late March 1944 written by Jean Genet to Maurice Toesca thanks to whom he avoided being sent to a concentration camp. Maurice Toesca a senior official at the Prefecture of Police as well as a prolific novelist biographer and literary critic had met Genet in 1944 on the request of Cocteau to secure his release: Sir Even had Monsieur Jean Cocteau not told me I would have understood the part you played in my release for you are poetrys representative at the Prefecture and my simple thanks would seem poor recompense for the marvellous gift you have given me. I am deeply sorry not to be able to offer you of all people a poem; but at least my heart is full of warm feeling toward you. Do not laugh Monsieur Toesca if you hear me speak of friendship it is still the finest thing I have to give. Please accept mine. Need I tell you again how desperate I was sunk in a darkness from which I no longer hoped to emerge and truly darkness it was for I had contemplated staking everything on an escape attempt whose most likely outcome was death the guards were terribly well armed! I tell you this nonetheless so that you may know my joy when the inspector came to announce my release. Monsieur Dubois was splendid; I should be glad if he could learn from you that I hold him in the deepest gratitude. My happiness is such that I could embrace everyone who helped bring this about. Monsieur Toesca it is a very thankful old thug who dares to shake your hand. translation our own Querelle de Brest was published clandestinely by Paul Morihien Jean Cocteaus secretary. Cocteau is responsible for the masterly and sensuous and unsigned illustrations. A portion of the five hundred and twenty-four copies printed were seized by the police the following year during a raid on the bookshop run by Morihien just steps from Cocteaus apartment at the Palais-Royal. After Genets wartime tribulations Cocteau came once more to his aid this time to spare him a life sentence: convicted for a third time and facing transportation to a penal colony Genet obtained a Presidential pardon through the intervention of Cocteau and Sartre. Querelle de Brest was adapted for the screen in 1982 by Rainer W. Fassbinder. A superb copy of this masterpiece a true cornerstone of homosexual and queer literary culture where the criminal underworld mingles with almost metaphysical ecstasy. [Paul Morihien]s. n. unknown
réf. 012311No Binding. Fine. Three scratchboards two 12'x 15" the other 16" x 12" depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. The life of Sam Steward 1909 - 1983 the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward Professsor; Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "Farrar Strauss Giroux 2010 took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas associations with George Platt Lynes Glenway Wescott and other literati and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries journals photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail and which he shared with Kinsey. Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after writing several commercially unsuccessful books Steward attempted mid-life in the early 1950s to seek approval from Jean Genet to publish his own English translation-with his own original illustrations - of Querelle de Brest. When it became clear to Steward that Genet was disinterested he dropped the project: these three scratchboards the art he he created for it. Steward's pursuit of "serious" literary expression ebbed and later in the 1960s under the pseudonym Phil Andros he authored a series of gay paperback novels STUD The Greek Way etc. regarded as the most literate of homoerotic fiction featuring his alter-ego hustler. He turned his artistic energies to tattooing operating parlors catering to naval and military servicemen in Chicago Milwaukee and finally Oakland. And his sexual activities increasingly involved sadomasochism in which he had always been interested All three of these drawings were reproduced in "An Obscene Diary: The Visual World of Sam Steward" Antonius Press/ Elysium Press 2010. During Steward's lifetime the "Lucky Strike" image was published in the Zurich-based Der Kries an early homophile publication introduced to Steward by Dr. Kinsey and also in the rare anthology of homoerotic art published by Der Kries in 1960 Der Mann in der Zeichnung under one of Steward's pseudonyms Philip von Chicago. Spring writes: "Noteworthy among Steward's many illustrations for Der Kries is one that was originally created for Steward's 1951- 1952 English language translation of Querelle de Brest. Working form Polaroid photographs taken of himself in various poses Steward fashioned three scratchboard illustrations for the story. In the first a man lights a cigarette for a sailor; in the second Querelle strangles the Armenian pederast; in the third Querelle is penetrated by the bartender husband of Madame Lysiane. The illustration of the sailor having his cigarette lit subsequently appeared in Der Kreis under the caption "Lucky Strike." Indeed Steward etched "LUCKY STRIKE" in the cigarette in the picture on the verso it is signed "Sam Steward 1951 1952". The strangulation picture has in Steward's hand on the verso: "From Genet's Querelle de Brest. Querelle strangles the Armenian". In the picture itself Steward etched his signature and date in the design on the Armenian's shirtcuff: "Sparrow Phil 1951". The picture of Querelle and the bartender in sexual union hung on the wall of Steward's apartment for many years. It is pictured in one of Steward's sex Polaroids reproduced in "Obscene Diary". On the verso of it Steward wrote "L'Execution De Querelle 9-19-51" Steward did not work in scratchboard alone. His art was quite versatile: murals in his apartments tempera watercolor pastel pen/ink and some wire sculpture and collage. These drawings could be regarded as the most important of his visual art. While they were motivated by literary aspiration they in effect represented a real turning point in his lif. unknown
réf. 012311No Binding. Fine. Three scratchboards two 12'x 15" the other 16" x 12" depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. The life of Sam Steward 1909 - 1983 the subject of Justin Spring's biography "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward Professsor; Tattoo Artist and Sexual Renegade "Farrar Strauss Giroux 2010 took Steward from a small town Ohio upbringing to personal friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas associations with George Platt Lynes Glenway Wescott and other literati and a close relationship with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Steward's life may well be most provocatively known for his explicit diaries journals photography and art that both recorded his sexual life in detail and which he shared with Kinsey. Starting out as an English professor at DePaul University with literary aspirations and after writing several commercially unsuccessful books Steward attempted mid-life in the early 1950s to seek approval from Jean Genet to publish his own English translation-with his own original illustrations - of Querelle de Brest. When it became clear to Steward that Genet was disinterested he dropped the project: these three scratchboards the art he he created for it. Steward's pursuit of "serious" literary expression ebbed and later in the 1960s under the pseudonym Phil Andros he authored a series of gay paperback novels STUD The Greek Way etc. regarded as the most literate of homoerotic fiction featuring his alter-ego hustler. He turned his artistic energies to tattooing operating parlors catering to naval and military servicemen in Chicago Milwaukee and finally Oakland. And his sexual activities increasingly involved sadomasochism in which he had always been interested All three of these drawings were reproduced in "An Obscene Diary: The Visual World of Sam Steward" Antonius Press/ Elysium Press 2010. During Steward's lifetime the "Lucky Strike" image was published in the Zurich-based Der Kries an early homophile publication introduced to Steward by Dr. Kinsey and also in the rare anthology of homoerotic art published by Der Kries in 1960 Der Mann in der Zeichnung under one of Steward's pseudonyms Philip von Chicago. Spring writes: "Noteworthy among Steward's many illustrations for Der Kries is one that was originally created for Steward's 1951- 1952 English language translation of Querelle de Brest. Working form Polaroid photographs taken of himself in various poses Steward fashioned three scratchboard illustrations for the story. In the first a man lights a cigarette for a sailor; in the second Querelle strangles the Armenian pederast; in the third Querelle is penetrated by the bartender husband of Madame Lysiane. The illustration of the sailor having his cigarette lit subsequently appeared in Der Kreis under the caption "Lucky Strike." Indeed Steward etched "LUCKY STRIKE" in the cigarette in the picture on the verso it is signed "Sam Steward 1951 1952". The strangulation picture has in Steward's hand on the verso: "From Genet's Querelle de Brest. Querelle strangles the Armenian". In the picture itself Steward etched his signature and date in the design on the Armenian's shirtcuff: "Sparrow Phil 1951". The picture of Querelle and the bartender in sexual union hung on the wall of Steward's apartment for many years. It is pictured in one of Steward's sex Polaroids reproduced in "Obscene Diary". On the verso of it Steward wrote "L'Execution De Querelle 9-19-51" Steward did not work in scratchboard alone. His art was quite versatile: murals in his apartments tempera watercolor pastel pen/ink and some wire sculpture and collage. These drawings could be regarded as the most important of his visual art. While they were motivated by literary aspiration they in effect represented a real turning point in his lif. unknown books
