Hans Falk
Henry Miller’s “Le Sourire au Pied de l’échelle [The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder]”
20 original color lithographs by Falk
Signed by Hans Falk and additionally by the publishers
Publisher’s decorated boards; hand-painted transparent dust jacket, contents laid in loose as issued; housed in plexiglass slipcase. Printed on Vélin de Rives
Limited edition, number 86 of 112 from a total edition of 130
Published by André et Pierre Gonin in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1978
Near fine condition
House of Roulx Letter of Authenticity
HANS FALK ILLUSTRATES HENRY MILLER
Hans Falk was born in Zürich in 1918 and went on to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich and the art schools in Lucerne. His first commissioned works were posters and graphic designs, which won him numerous awards. Amongst his most important competition wins were a series of seven posters he designed for the 1964 Swiss National Exhibition. He went on to travel extensively, living abroad for extended periods in England, New York and Ireland. In his later years he divided his home between Switzerland and the Sicilian island of Stromboli. He died in 2002, after a fruitful career that produced a large body of paintings, posters and sought-after graphic designs, and made him one of the most important contemporary Swiss artists.
Henry Miller called ‘The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder’ his “most singular story.” First published in 1959, this touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but who sought to impart to his audiences a lasting joy. “Undoubtedly,” he says in his explanatory epilogue, “it is the strangest story I have yet written. . . . No, more even than all the stories which I based on fact and experience is this one the truth. My whole aim in writing has been to tell the truth, as I know it. Heretofore all my characters have been real, taken from life, my own life. Auguste is unique in that he came from the blue. But what is this blue which surrounds and envelopes us if not reality itself? . . . We have only to open our eyes and hearts, to become one with that which is.”
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