WOOG (Raymond). Passed by the Censor. Le Havre, [The artist] - Lot 427

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WOOG (Raymond). Passed by the Censor. Le Havre, [The artist] - Lot 427
WOOG (Raymond). Passed by the Censor. Le Havre, [The artist], 1916. In-folio in ff. wallet in khaki military canvas with flaps and laces. 1] f. title, [1] f. facsimile handwritten preface, 31 beautiful (sometimes gently satirical) portraits of English and French officers lithographed after Raymond Woog's drawings, each accompanied by a caption sheet with a small descriptive poem by Lieutenant Ch. Staniforth, often humorous, in a beautiful red and black layout by agent H. Mostyn-Prichard (except for 3 portraits without an explanatory leaflet) and 1 final plate representing a crashing zeppelin ("Finis"). Qqs very slight stitches and stains on the wallet, tiny stitches on the title page. Very good condition. Interesting collection of portraits of officers of the British camp of Le Havre during WWI (sketched between winter 1915 and spring 1916), very rare: only 3 copies referenced by OCLC (Brown and Princeton universities, and the Library of Congress in Washington). Another copy is kept in the municipal archives of Le Havre, which mention a limited edition of 115 copies. The so-called "Herzog - Interpreter Adjudant" is none other than André Maurois (born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog), who gave his own experience of the war (in the guise of interpreter Aurelle) in "Les Silences du colonel Bramble" (1926). Maurois remembers Woog as "a talented painter and a charming companion" in his autobiography I Remember, I Remember (1942, p. 120). Woog was the first to read Bramble's manuscript and urged Maurois to publish it. The cover of the first edition was illustrated with a portrait of Colonel Asser (commander of the base at Le Havre) by Woog. The French painter Raymond Woog (1875-1949) was a pupil of Gustave Moreau. Perfectly bilingual, he is credited with the translation of the work of Herbert Ward, an officer on Stanley's expedition across Central Africa. He collaborated with the Devambez Gallery, as did Leloir, Neumont, Guillaume and Cain, a
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