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Dessin original d'un elfe par Alan Lee - Original Illustration
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Dessin original d'un elfe par Alan Lee

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Dessin original ďun elfe par Alan Lee

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Alan Lee est né en 1947 dans le Middlesex, en Angleterre. Il se tourne très jeune vers l'illustration et va étudier cette discipline à l'Ealing School of Art. En 1975, il part s'installer au Dartmoor dans le Devon. Ses illustrations s'inspirent beaucoup des travaux d'Arthur Rackham et de Charles Robinson, mais aussi des années 1950 et 1960.

Alan Lee fait de nombreuses illustrations de roman féerique, comme Faeries (avec Brian Froud), Lavondyss par Robert Holdstock, The Mabinogion, Castles, Merlin Dreams… Plus tard, Alan Lee se passionne pour les œuvres de J. R. R. Tolkien ; à l'occasion du 100e anniversaire de la naissance de l'écrivain, il illustre les couvertures des rééditions du Seigneur des anneaux et de Bilbo le Hobbit, ainsi que le calendrier Tolkien 1993

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About Alan Lee

Alan has illustrated dozens of fantasy books, including some nonfiction, and many more covers. Several works by J.R.R. Tolkien are among his most notable interiors: the Tolkien centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings (1992), a 1999 edition of The Hobbit that has been boxed with it, and Narn i Chîn Húrin: The Children of Húrin (2007). The latter, a first edition, is his work most widely held in WorldCat participating libraries.Other books he has illustrated include Faeries (with Brian Froud), Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock (as well as the cover of an early print of this book), The Mabinogion (two versions), Castles and Tolkien's Ring (both nonfiction by David Day), The Mirrorstone by Michael Palin, The Moon's Revenge by Joan Aiken, and Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson. He has also illustrated retellings of classics for young people. Two were Rosemary Sutcliff's versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey—namely, Black Ships Before Troy (Oxford, 1993) and The Wanderings of Odysseus (Frances Lincoln, 1995). Another was Adrian Mitchell's version of Ovid's Metamorphoses—namely, Shapeshifters (Frances Lincoln, 2009).