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Artist Spotlight: Czanara

Artist Spotlight: Czanara

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Raymond Carrance, working under the name Czanara, created an intriguing body of homoerotic artwork in the '50s and '60s.

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Working both as a photographer and an illustrator, Raymond Carrance, under the pseudonym Czanara, created what was daring art for his time. Carrance, who lived from 1921-1998, was also responsible for illustrating with elaborate etchings and lithographs the works of Jules Renard and Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as an edition of Henry de Montherlant's 1951 gay classic La Ville dont Le Prince est un Enfant (The Land Whose King is a Child). In everything, Czanara brought a magical surrealistic style like contemporaries Paul Cadmus and Jared French.

Thanks to the wonderful blog www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/, and the many of the images sourced from Wessel +O'Connor Fine Art for this article.

Cz01x633_0Three men in surrealistic collage (12" x 17"). Colored pencil on paper. (Source: Elysium Press)

Cz02x633_0_0Paris, 1954 (Wessel + O'Connor)
ink on paper, 12 1/4 X 9 1/8", signed

Cz03x633_0Untitled, (Wessel + O'Connor)
colored pencil and gouache on paper, 13 3/4 x 9 1/2"

Flutex633_0Pan, 1976

Illustrationx633_0Composition
1960
Treex633_0May 4, 1953
pencil on paper, 12 5/8 X 9 3/4"

Czanara_hermaphrodite-angelx633_0The Hermaphrodite-Angel of Peladan

Sketchesx633_0 Sketches
(Wessel + O'Connor)

Book01x633_0Illustrations from a 1967 edition of La Ville dont le prince est un enfant (The City Whose Prince is a Child), a 1955 play by French dramatist Henry de Montherlant. (Source: librairie-ancienne-lautre-monde.blogspot.com)

Book02x633_0Illustrations from a 1967 edition ofLa Ville dont le prince est un enfant (The City Whose Prince is a Child), a 1955 play by French dramatist Henry de Montherlant. (Source: librairie-ancienne-lautre-monde.blogspot.com)

Book03x633_0 Illustrations from a 1967 edition ofLa Ville dont le prince est un enfant (The City Whose Prince is a Child), a 1955 play by French dramatist Henry de Montherlant. (Source: librairie-ancienne-lautre-monde.blogspot.com)

Book04x633_0 Illustrations from a 1967 edition ofLa Ville dont le prince est un enfant (The City Whose Prince is a Child), a 1955 play by French dramatist Henry de Montherlant. (Source: librairie-ancienne-lautre-monde.blogspot.com)

Book05x633_0 Illustrations from a 1967 edition ofLa Ville dont le prince est un enfant (The City Whose Prince is a Child), a 1955 play by French dramatist Henry de Montherlant. (Source: librairie-ancienne-lautre-monde.blogspot.com)

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Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.