S.K. Collection - Lot 15

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S.K. Collection - Lot 15
S.K. Collection HUGO PRATT Jesuit Joe, Dargaud 1980 Original plate no. 42. Signed. India ink and graphite on paper 35 × 50.1 cm (13.78 × 19.72 in.) When Hugo Pratt takes up a theme, he always transcends it. Jesuit Joe is a western set in the vast Canadian Yukon. It's a unique album created by Pratt for the Italian publisher Bonelli, then published in France by Dargaud in the Un Homme, une aventure collection. The hero, Jesuit Joe, is something of a Corto Maltese: quiet, enigmatic, distant from events, wearing a Mountie uniform, but half Métis, half First Nations, as we say in Canada today, half settler. Jesuit is almost always silent, elusive. He knows the laws of nature and distrusts the laws of men. He has just rescued his colleague from a bear attack, awakened from hibernation. The dialogue is frank and virile, as is often the case with the Venetian master, and there's no need to mince words. Pratt's minimalist strokes work well with the snow-white of the page, zooming out to encompass the humans and their cabin in the blinding light of a winter as icy as it is hypnotic. Always inventive, Pratt's art of narration is uniquely his own.
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