DIALOGOS OLIMPICOS: Iº APOLO Y DIONISOS.; Ilustraciones de López Naguil

Buenos Aires: [Talleres de la Casa Jacobo Peuser], 1918. (marginal wear in boards; water stain in verso wrps; o/w v.g. and clean copy). plus 7 color tipped-in color plates (incl. 1 ex-libris), w/ tissue overlays, illus., deckled edges, color pict. wrps., loose as issues in embossed decorations and gold stamping on frt. boards. The present artist book by Carlos Reyles is one of 2 volumes of the narrative fiction written during the early years of WWI and inspired in the literary form of a mimetic dialogue, where two Olympian gods discuss liberty, justice and the imperialist intentions of Germany. Color illustrations by Gregorio López Naguil (b. Argentina 1894-1953). Naguil formed part of the “grupo de larue Bagneux" in París and then to Mallorca (1913) where he met and worked with Roberto Montengro (from Mexico) and other artists from Argentina and Mexico during the teens and early 1920s. Both artists adopted Orientalism in their work. López Naguil returned to Argentina in 1915, he returned to settle in Mallorca after the war ended between 1919-1922 (when Diego Rivera accompanied by Angelina Beloff, Mary Blanchard and Jacques Lipchitz visited and lived there) . During the period in Argentina he became a tireless promoter of the aritsts he knew in Paris and Mallorca and while enhancing the footprint of the nouveauy graphic illustration in Argentina. He illustrated Plus Ultra, the most important illustrated magazine of the period. Upon his return of Mollorca from 1919-1922 he continued his work with many artists, including Montenegro. Both of these artists developed the book arts along similar lines. López Naguil returned to Buenos Aires as the director/designer for the Teatro Nacional Cervanted and from 1950 until his death at the Teatro Colón. SCARCE.