Pierre Le-Tan (1950–2019)
Auteur de Quelques collectionneurs
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Pierre Le-Tan
The Collection of Mr. X. Curated by Urberto Pasti 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grownups from Children's Books (1999) — Illustrateur — 222 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Pierrre Tan Le (birth)
- Date de naissance
- 1950-06-05
- Date de décès
- 2019-09-17
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- France
- Lieu de naissance
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- Lieu du décès
- Villejuif, France
- Professions
- Illustrator
- Courte biographie
- His signature illustration style was cross-hatching.
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 118
- Popularité
- #167,490
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 26
- Langues
- 3
The director of the Louvre fills his apartment with a gleaming menagerie of Murano glass animals. An impoverished princess gives the young Le-Tan a guided tour of her collection: the unfaded rectangles on the walls of her apartment, where the pictures by Rubens, Guercino and others used to be. A fellow he happens to meet on a train shows him his carefully displayed and labeled collection of crumpled pieces of paper: envelopes, paper towel squares, even used tissues (!), relishing the play of shape and texture and shadow. Le-Tan describes this so sympathetically that when he reveals that this man's heirs took all his crumples and smoothed them flat so they would all fit in a box, I was horrified.
Le-Tan is respectful and fascinated. He understands what drives them, whether it's a passion for Islamic tiles, English porcelain, Italian drawings, dolls, or waxen death masks topped with the criminals' own hair - or an assortment of objects chosen for nothing but how beautiful they are to their beholders. Le-Tan's own evolving collections are of a widely eclectic sort, interesting in part because he freely sells them off when he needs money for bills - or another piece of art - without a qualm. His is a curious attitude - he is contemptuous of "vulgar" collectors, ultra-wealthy people who have "lived only for money and power," and who acquire art for purposes of glamor or investment, while purely aesthetic delight remains "alien" to them. Le-Tan acquires objects because they do truly delight him, yet the physical possession of them seems to mean rather little. Sometimes he comes across a piece he once owned in someone else's apartment, and it pleases him to feel that his "children" have been left in the hands of "someone who I trust... safe and happy on my friend Jacques' wall." A lovely, odd, engaging little book - kudos to New Vessel Press, a steady source of such well-chosen titles in translation.… (plus d'informations)