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Albert Decaris | Title of Art: c. 1939 From the Samson Agonistes Suite | Medium: Engraving on Paper | Edition #: 5/55 | Unframed Size: 15 x 11 inches | Offered Unframed | Value: $ 950 | Art For Sale presents limited edition engravings by Albert Decaris from Samson Agonistes by poet John Milton. Drawing on the story of Samson from the Old Testament, Judges 13–16, each engraving is a dramatization of the story starting at Judges 16:23. The drama starts as Samson has been captured by the Philistines, had his hair, the container of his strength, cut off and his eyes cut out. Samson is "Blind among enemies, O worse than chains" (line 66).Samson undergoes despair when he loses God’s favor in the form of his strength. Milton’s dramatic poem, however, begins the story of Samson after his downfall—after he has yielded his God-entrusted secret to Dalila (Delilah), suffered blindness, and become a captive of the Philistines. Tormented by anguish over his captivity, Samson is depressed by the realization that he, the prospective liberator of the Israelites, is now a prisoner, blind and powerless in the hands of his enemies. The focus of Milton’s dramatic poem is ultimately on Samson’s regenerative process, an inner struggle beset by torment, by the anxiety that God has rejected him, and by his failure as the would-be liberator of his people. Samson’s discourse manifests an upward trajectory, through atonement and toward regeneration, which culminates in the climactic action at the temple of Dagon where Samson, again chosen by God, vindicates himself. In his searching for a way to return to being true to God and to serve his will, Samson is restored and again is in God’s grace and able to serve God. | Albert Decaris (1901-1988): One of France’s foremost engravers of the twentieth century, Albert Decaris is born in Normandy in Sotteville-les-Rouen in 1901. He began his formal art studies at the age of fourteen at the Ecole Estienne. Four years later he was accepted into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts), Paris, and studied in the studios of Carmon and Laguillermie. Within six months Decaris had won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome of engraving (1919) and became the youngest student ever to win this prestigious honor for his work ‘Eve before the sin’. Decaris thus journeyed to Rome where he worked and lived at the Villa Medici. Unfortunately he contacted malaria on a journey to Paestum and was critically ill for a period of one year. Upon his recovery Albert Decaris was ‘rewarded’ with a two year mandatory service in the French military. After this he concluded his fellowship in Rome and then returned to Paris. He first worked upon a series of engravings of Belgian subjects which he submitted to the Paris Salon. These works received the Salon’s Medaille d’Argent (Silver Medal). It was the first time in the Salon’s long history that an artist had received this major medal with his premiere presentation. During the following years Albert Decaris created a major oeuvre of original engravings and etchings, both as individual plates and as illustrations for livres d’artistes. In the first category, he began with big engravings inspired by his classic souvenirs, mythological scenes like Leda and the Swan, The Rape of Europe, Pasiphae, etc. In the latter category he illustrated such magnificent books as Shakespeare’s, Macbeth (1930), Cathlin’s, Le Sommeil d’Endymion (1934), Milton’s, Samson Agonistes (1939), Chenier’s, Eglogues (1945), Henriot’s, Mythologie des Anciens Grecs et Romains (1955), Corneille’s Theater (1955-1961), Emile Henriot, Les Trophees (1967) and Eschyle, Tragedies, under the direction of Mario Vincent (1975-1977). One of Decaris’s greatest illustrated books is Pierre de Ronsard’s, Discours des Miseres de ce Temps, which was published in Paris in 1930. Consisting of three large volumes, Decaris created forty-five engravings which were published in an edition of 359. As well, Decaris selected some of the plates to be printed separately in a limited edition of one hundred signed impressions. Such is the case with Ronsard, which probably served as the frontis-piece to the above named volume. He illustrated around 200 books, especially Ronsard, Shakespeare, La Rochefoucauld, Chateaubriand, Vigny, Montherlant, Claudel, Giono... He collaborated to the Art-Deco International Exhibition of 1937 in Paris where he realized 300 square meters of paintings and to the International Exhibition of New York in 1938 for which he did a huge painting ‘The Plague’. He did huge frescoes for the monumental stairs of the City Hall of Vesoul and for other monuments, churches and chapels. Between 1935 and 1985 Albert Decaris created more than six hundred stamps for France (174) and its territories, Monaco, Andorra, Tunisia, etc. Held in equally high esteem for his architectural, historical, landscape, portrait and figurative engravings, he became a full member of the Academie des Beaux-arts in 1943 and was nominated its President in 1960 an re-elected four times. In 1962 Decaris was named the official painter of the Marine Francaise (Navy). His style, ample, classic and marked with archaism of his engraving work can be also find in the severe disposition of his drawings and paintings.
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