Children's book illustrations of Gédéon the duck
and his animal friends, by Benjamin Rabier.
and his animal friends, by Benjamin Rabier.
The selected images are in page order starting with
the title page (identical to the book's cover image)
the title page (identical to the book's cover image)
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.jpg "Illustration from children's book: 'Gédéon Traverse l'Atlantique' by Benjamin Rabier, 1933")
.jpg "Illustration from children's book: 'Gédéon Traverse l'Atlantique' by Benjamin Rabier, 1933")
Benjamin Rabier (1864-1939) ('the man who made the animals laugh') produced some sixteen books featuring his beloved animated duck, Gédéon [& friends], between 1923 and 1939.
This is the 3rd post on BibliOdyssey featuring book illustrations by Rabier so I'll keep the repetition to a minimum. The colour saturation has been slightly boosted in the images above which constitute about ½ to ¾ of the book's illustrations.
- The above book, 'Gédéon Traverse l'Atlantique' 1933, by Benjamin Rabier, was sourced from the French National Library.
- Previously on BibliOdyssey (including background/links): Le Bouffon Choisi & Fables de Florian.
- Rabier posts at Patricia's wonderful Agence Eureka -- Le Fond du Sac & Aristide et Bobino & Les Aventures d'une Souris Verte & Rabougri, Chat de Gouttière & Gédéon en Afrique & Les Contes du Lapin Vert & Le Petit Père Mulot.
- Benjamin Rabier at Amazon.
- Review of a Rabier documentary (& captioned trailer) released earlier this year (part-crowd funded) & uniFranceFilms info summary.
- ADDIT: BiG thanks to Will of 50watts.com for alerting me to the BnF copy of this Rabier book!!
- This post originally appeared on the BibliOdyssey website.
3 comments :
Great post and your posts never seem repetitive. I like seeing the several works by the same illustrators. Thanks!
Found your blog just now. It is remarkable. Bravo and thanks.
Thanks for the kind words Joy & Tom.
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