Die Herberge im Heiligtum (Auberge dans le sanctuaire) und andere Gedichte
*Die Herberge im Heiligtum (Auberge dans le sanctuaire) und andere Gedichte* is a refined edition in which André Frénaud’s poetry and Raoul Ubac’s colour woodcuts meet in a sober, almost sacred space. The book was published in 1959 by Galerie Parnas in Wuppertal, a context that connects the French artist’s book with postwar German gallery culture. The title, with its tension between inn and sanctuary, lodging and withdrawal, is exceptionally well suited to Ubac’s mineral and architectural visual language. His six colour woodcuts do not illustrate the poems in a literal manner, but act as condensed signs of matter, silence and inner landscape. This copy, no. 9 3 from an edition of 150, is signed by both author and artist. It is further enriched with an original colour woodcut by Ubac, signed, dated 1959 and numbered E.A., giving the copy clear added distinction. For The Hidden Page, it is a strong example of the postwar poetic artist’s book, where text, printmaking and material restraint assume a concentrated form.
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Frenaud, André
Ubac, Raoul
Die Herberge im Heiligtum (Auberge dans le sanctuaire) und andere Gedichte
1959 | Wuppertal | Galerie Parnas
Signed copy no. 93 with six colour woodcuts by Ubac and an additional E.A. colour woodcut from 1959. A restrained yet powerful postwar artist’s book in which Frénaud’s poetry meets Ubac’s mineral visual language.
*Die Herberge im Heiligtum (Auberge dans le sanctuaire) und andere Gedichte* is a refined edition in which André Frénaud’s poetry and Raoul Ubac’s colour woodcuts meet in a sober, almost sacred space. The book was published in 1959 by Galerie Parnas in Wuppertal, a context that connects the French artist’s book with postwar German gallery culture. The title, with its tension between inn and sanctuary, lodging and withdrawal, is exceptionally well suited to Ubac’s mineral and architectural visual language. His six colour woodcuts do not illustrate the poems in a literal manner, but act as condensed signs of matter, silence and inner landscape. This copy, no. 9 3 from an edition of 150, is signed by both author and artist. It is further enriched with an original colour woodcut by Ubac, signed, dated 1959 and numbered E.A., giving the copy clear added distinction. For The Hidden Page, it is a strong example of the postwar poetic artist’s book, where text, printmaking and material restraint assume a concentrated form.
€1,800
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Format
In-4 (Quarto) approx. 25 × 32 cm
Edition Particulars
Copy no. 43 of 150, signed by André Frénaud and Raoul Ubac, enriched with an original colour woodcut by Ubac, signed, dated 1959 and numbered E.A.; additional no. 93 noted in the description.
Print Run
150
Copy Number
No. 93
Inscription
Signed by the Author,Signed by the Illustrator
Product DETAIL
The volume gathers a selection of poems by André Frénaud in a German context, with *Auberge dans le sanctuaire* as central title. The texts do not form a linear narrative, but circle around thresholds, inner trial, lodging, memory and spiritual tension. Frénaud’s poetry often moves between earthly concreteness and metaphysical questioning: the sanctuary is not a peaceful solution, but a space of searching. The inn suggests temporary shelter, while the sanctuary evokes a charged, almost inaccessible place. Ubac’s colour woodcuts give this poetic space a tangible structure of planes, signs and material intensity. Reading therefore unfolds as a sequence of thresholds, in which poem and print each open another kind of silence. The additional E.A. woodcut deepens that sense of an autonomous graphic moment within the whole.
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