Rouveyre - Carcasses divines. Dessins de Rouveyre 1906-1907 - 1909

Carcasses divine. Drawings by Rouveyre 1906-1907 - Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1909 - quarto, paperback with a vellum-covered cover - 54 pages & XXXV black plates.

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André Rouveyre, born on March 29, 1879, in Paris, and died on December 18, 1962, in Barbizon, is a French writer, journalist, press illustrator, and caricaturist.

André Rouveyre is the son of Édouard Rouveyre (1849-1930), a learned Parisian publisher based on rue des Saints-Pères, and author of, among other works, an essay titled 'Necessary Knowledge for a Bibliophile,' as well as being closely associated with Octave Uzanne. André Rouveyre entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris, becoming one of Gustave Moreau's last students. He left the school after three years but became friends with Henri Matisse there.

To live, he becomes a press cartoonist and collaborates with numerous periodicals. He begins in 1899 with Le Polichinelle, Le Sourire, Le Rire, Le Pêle-Mêle, and Le Petit Illustré amusant, then Le Frou-frou (1900-1904), Le Cri de Paris (1906, then 1922), Je sais tout (1910), Comœdia (1913), and also Lustige Blätter, among others.

Rouveyre moved in a cosmopolitan environment and ended his days in the stronghold of the Impressionists, in Barbizon, at 14 Grande Rue, on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest. In 1921, he published 'Memories of my dealings' based on his relationships with Remy de Gourmont, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Moréas, and Jules Soury.

Rouveyre's journalistic talents are mainly renowned for the somewhat sterile controversy he had with Paul Claudel. Rouveyre sketched Claudel in four drawings published by Mercure de France following the premieres of his plays, including in 1914, L'Otage.

He knew the Swiss painter and engraver Pierre-Eugène Vibert, who created several engravings after his drawings of female nudes.

He bequeathed his correspondence with Henri Matisse and André Gide, but also entrusted, as early as 1940, the mummy of a dancer from the time of Ptolemy IV to the town hall of Fontainebleau. He had acquired the mummy from an antiquarian, but it came from the collections of Théophile Poilpot, which were dispersed after his death in 1915.

It was he who, in 1945, in his book Apollinaire, published the name of Annie Playden, Apollinaire's muse, a name he had discovered in Ernst Wolf's thesis; it was from his book that Robert Goffin was able to find Annie again.

André Rouveyre died on December 18, 1962, and was buried in the Barbizon cemetery.

The Historical Library of the City of Paris preserves the André Rouveyre collection, which includes various drawings, correspondences, wood engravings, and personal papers, notably thanks to the donation by his grandchildren in 1992. (see Wikipedia)