José Gers / Luc Lafnet - Les Jeunes Crépuscules - 1925

José Gers, The Young Twilight. Illustrations by Luc Lafnet, Ghent, Vanderpoorten & Cie, 1925. One of 447 copies numbered on antique edition paper, here no. 75. Original edition.

Small quarto, square, blind-back binding, covers preserved, 175 pp. Excellent condition!
Limited edition of 500 copies. Thirty-seven poems are placed opposite a full-page plate, drawn by Luc Lafnet. His erotic drawings are suggestive, but sometimes also bear witness to a mystical inspiration.

José Gers (1898–1961), writer, poet, illustrator and engraver, settled in Brussels in 1930. A member of the Naval Academy, he directed from 1946 the Belgian Colonial Review until his death in 1960.
Luc Lafnet (1899-1939), painter and comic book artist of Belgian origin, lived in Paris between 1923 and 1939. Lafnet was noted for his talents as an illustrator by critics who compared him to Doré, Callot, Goya, Bruegel, or Bosch. He almost exclusively earned his living from illustrating 'galant books' according to Bénézit.

Nice example!