DALI
La Divine Comedie. 12 volumes. DELUXE edition (one of 350 copies with one extra-suite of the woodcuts by S. Dali).
Dali, Salvador - Dante Alighieri. Paris: Editions d'art les Heures Claires. 1959
One of 350 deluxe exemplaires, with 100 color woodcuts after watercolors by Dali + one extra-suite with the 100 woodcuts + 369 color decomposition woodcuts (one for volumes), on Rives paper. Ref: Field pp 189-200. Fine condition. $35,000.00
La divine Comédie (Dante Alighieri, Illustrated By Salvator DALÍ ).
Paris, (1959-1963), 6 vols., Italian language, 100 colored wood engravings plates after watercolors by S. DALÍ by R. JACQUET and J. TARICO, loose as issued in original wrapper, orig. unif. gilt board chemise and slipcase, folio. Maur p.499; Monod 3998: "100 Aquarelles gravées sur bois ayant nécessité 3.500 bois". The great Surrealist master Salvador Dalí interprets Dante's classic poem in this 6-volume set, which comprises 3 parts with 33 cantos in each. SOLD
DUCHAMP, Marcel
Le surrealisme en 1947. Paris Pierre A Feu, Maeght Editeur 1947. 4to, 140 pp; wrappers; boxed; from a total edition of 999 copies, of a very few copies with a three dimensional art object attached to the front cover of the chemise [Duchamp s "Priere de Toucher" (The Breast)]. The book contains 140 pages with 25 original prints by Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Herold, Lam, Miro, Man Ray, Tanguy, Tanning, Arp, Matta. Only a few copies were accompanied by the Duchamp object, as ours, and fewer still have survived. The foam rubber breast was constructed with delicate and perishable materials; consequently, a vast majority of those that have survived are now in a seriously deteriorated state. Ref: Schwartz 523. SOLD
DUFY Raoul
Les Centaures et Les Jeux. Pierre de Tartas, Paris 1957.One of the twenty copies numbered from I to XX, reserved to collaborators (this is the copy number VI especially printed for Monsieur Guy RIGAUD). Original color lithograph by Dufy, signed by Artist. "Suite des bois en coleurs sur velin de rives" with 12 colour lithographs by Dufy, of which 1 signed by Artist. "Suite des bois en couleurs sur velin de hollande" with 12 colour lithographs by Dufy, of which 1 signed by Artist. Decomposition d' un bois en couleurs sur chine. Suite des bois au trait sur chine. Epreuve d' un bois sur soie. $6,500.00
Vacances Forcées. Illustré par Raoul Dufy. DORGELES (Roland).S.l. Paris, Robert Vialetey, 1956. In-Folio. Loose pages as issued, in slipcase and box. Original edition, Robert Blanchet has drawn and engraved the title and the head letters. 472 woodcuts engraved by Giacomo Beltrand, maquette by Henri Jonquières, typography and print of Robert Blanchet. One of the 141 copies on chiffon de rives. Edition signed by the author, the engraver and the publisher. $1,800.00
La Belle-Enfant ou l’Amour á Quarante Ans. Montfort, Eugene, Illustrated by Raoul Dufy. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1930. One of 245 copies on Arches paper, with 110 original etchings by Raoul Dufy, in slipcase. Ref.: Chapon p.281; Kornfeld 152/62; Skira no.107; Rauch no.47. $5,500.00
ERNST Max
Judith (with Extra Suite). Giraudoux Jean, Illustrated by Ernst, Max - Tanning, Dorothea. Stuttgart: Manus Presse GmbH, 1972. Slipcase. One of 99 copies signed by artists, with six original lithographs by Ernst and six original lithographs by Tanning. Extra Suite with six original lithographs by Ernst signed and numbered by Ernst and six original lithographs by Tanning signed and numbered by artist. $6,000.00
Une semaine de bonté, ou les sept éléments capitaux. Ernst, Max. Paris (Jeanne Bucher), 1934. 5 volumes. 182 full-page plates of collages of steel engravings. 4to. Publisher’s decorated carton slipcase, the front cover with mounted illustration by Ernst on green stock. One of 800 copies on Papier de Navarre, from the limited edition of 816 in all, numbered in separate justifications in each volume. $4,000.00
La Brebis Galante. Ernst, Max & Péret, Benjamin. Paris: Les Editions Premieres, 1949. Three original color etchings with aquatint and 22 full-page illustrations, of which 18 hand colored in pochoir. 4to. Original color lithograph on front wrapper. One of 300 numbered copies on grand Vélin d'Arches from the limited edition of 316. Ref: Spies 28G; Rainwater 49, p. 113f.; The Artist & The Book, 100; Hubert P. 26; Gershman p. 33. $5,000.00
Max Enst: Das Graphische Werk. Deluxe Issue. Spies, Werner & Leppien, Helmut. Cologne: Menil Foundation & Dumont, 1975. One of 79 numbered copies containing two original color lithographs, one of which is numbered and signed in pencil by Max Ernst. Text in German, French and English. Cloth binding, dust jacket, in blue cloth slipcase. The catalogue raisonné of the prints and volume 1 of the complete oeuvre. Ref.: Monod no. 4325. $2,500.00
Les Chiens Ont Soif. With lithographs by Max Ernst. Prévert, Jacques. Paris: 1964, first edition, one of 250 numbered examples (total edition 320), with 2 original color etchings, each signed by the artist in pencil, and 26 lithographs by Ernst. Ref.: Spies 277-281; Kornfeld 152 no.75. SOLD
Jenseits der Malerei. Das grafische Oeuvre. Ernst, Max. Catalogue to the Kestner Museum Exhibition in Hannover 1972. With texts by Werner Spies and Erhart Kästner. One of 111 copies, signed by E. Kästner and W. Spies. With 2 original lithographs, signed and numbered by Max Ernst. $2,500.00
Max Ernst: Oeuvre-Katalog. Volumes 2-5. Spies, Werner & Metken, S. Cologne: Menil Foundation & Dumont, 1975- 1998. Cloth binding, dust jackets, slipcases. Vol. 2: work from 1906 -1925; Vol. 3: work from 1925 - 1929; Vol. 4: work from 1929 - 1938; Vol. 5: work from 1938 - 1953. $2,000.00
FRANK Robert
Les Americains. Paris: Robert Delpire, (1958). Oblong octavo, original glazed paper over boards with drawings by Saul Steinberg. First edition of one of the most influential series of photographs of the postwar era, with 83 black-and-white plates after original photographs by Frank. Text in French. $2,500.00
GRIS Juan
Juan Gris. Catalogue Raisoné de l’Œuvre Peinte. Cooper, Douglas. Paris: Berggruen, 1977. One of 750 copies. Fully illustrated catalogue of 621 paintings. $2,250.00
HEARN, Lafcadio
Japanese Fairy Tales. Publisher: T. Hasegawa, Tokio. 1898/1925 . Five volumes set, in original blue cloth folder with ivory clasps on plaited cloth thongs. Crepe paper wrappers "printed in color by hand from Japanese wood blocks", the text is illustrated, sometimes with full-page images. The five titles are: "The Boy Who Drew Cats", "The Goblin Spider", "The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling", "Chin Chin Kobakama", "The Fountain of Youth". SOLD
ICART, Louis
La nuit et le moment (DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING HANDCOLORED + SUITE IN SANGUINE)
Crebillon (Prosper Jolyot de). Guillot, Paris. 1946
illustrated by 25 original colored etchings by Icart. One of the 100 copies on Rives (total edition 525) with one original drawing handcolored and one extrasuite of the etchings in sanguine. $10,000.00
Chrysis
Louys, Pierre. Charles Meunier. 1940
imagé de quinze gravures à l'eau-forte par Louis Icart.Paris Charles Meunier 1940 In-4 de (2) ff., 28 pp., (2) ff. ; en feuilles, couverture rempliée, chemise et étui jaune et or. 15 eaux-fortes originales en couleurs par Louis Icart, dont 5 hors texte. Les illustrations de Chrysis comptent parmi les plus belles représentations de la beauté féminine que Icart nous ait laissées. Tirage limité à 147 exemplaires numérotés. Un des 125 sur vélin crème (nº107). Bel exemplaire. Carteret, Le Trésor du Bibliophile, Livres illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945, IV, p. 252. $7,500.00
Léda ou la louange des bienheureuses ténèbres. LOUYS (Pierre).
Con Grand in 4 . En feuilles, sous chemise et étui de l'éditeur. Tirage à 147 exemplaires numérotés. 1 des 125 vélin crème. Ouvrage publié sous la direction de Charles Meunier. Les 16 eaux fortes de Icart (Frontispice, 4 hors texte texte et 11 dans le texte) ont été tirées en taille douce dans les ateliers d'Emmanuel Robbe. Un des livres les plus réussis de Icart. $4,500.00
La nuit et le moment.
ICART (Louis) & CREBILLON (Claude-Prosper JOLYOT de). George Guillot. 1946
Imagé de vingt-cinq eaux-fortes originales, en couleurs, par Louis Icart. Paris Georges Guillot 1946. 1 vol.In-4, Rel.1/2 maroquin rouge à coins ép., dos à nerfs orné, tête dorée, couverture conservée.25 eaux-fortes originales en couleurs de Louis Icart, dont 23 à pleine page. Tirage limité à 540 exemplaires numérotés. Un des 15 sur Johannot à la forme réservés à l'artiste et à l'éditeur, dénommés exemplaires d'artiste (n°V). Coiffes et coins usés, dos passé. $4,500.00
Le sopha. Crébillon Fils with illustrations by Icart. Le Vasseur et CIE Éditeurs 1935. 24 etching in color of which 21 in full page and 2 in half page with text. The book was published in 1935 with an edition of 497 copies, printed on Hollande van Gelder paper. $3,500.00
Faust. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Le Vasseur & Cie Paris 1943. 249 & 166 pages. Twenty-four color plates by Louis Icart with two additional suites: one in color and one in black and white printed on Velin D'Arches paper in a Limited Edition. This is one of 400 copies. Translation by Gerard de Nerval and printed by Draeger Freres, in Paris, during the German occupation. Exemplar, printed in red and black, with cover glassine over wrappers , original printed stiff wrappers and slipcases. 2 volumes. $2,500.00
INDIANA Robert
The American dream. El Segundo, California, Marco Fine Arts Contemporary Atelier, 1997. One of 325 copies, with 24 unsigned bound and 6 signed loose screenprints in colors (as issued), on wove paper, by Robert Indiana. $16,000.00
JORN Asger
Asger Jorn. Catalogue Raisonné. Atkins, Guy. London: Lund Humphries, 1968. Hard Cover. First Edition. 4 volumes. The first 3 volumes are a study of Asger Jorn's artistic development in 3 different periods (1930/1953 - 1954/1964 - 1965/1973) and a catalogue of his oil paintings from each period. Fourth volume is a supplement with Jorn's paintings from 1930 to 1973. $2,750.00
KANDINSKY Vassily
Das Graphische Werk. Kandinsky, Wassily: 1866-1944. Roethel, H. DuMont, Köln 1970. First edition, one of a total edition of 1500 numbered copies, on Phönix-Kunstdruck and Zerkall-Bütten paper. Text in German, large stout 4to, 504 pages, hundreds of plates, many in color, including gatefolds, reproduced in photo-lithography. Blue cloth with gilt stamping in dust jacket. Arntz I.59; Bolliger 9, 930. $2,250.00
XXe Siecle N. 3. San Lazzaro. Paris: XX Siecle, 1938. First Edition. With 6 original woodcuts by Kandisky. $4,000.00
Über das Geistige in der Kunst. Insbesondere in der Malerei.
Munich: R. Piper & Co. 1912. First Edition. A fundamental theoretical work by Kandinsky, with 10 abstract original woodcuts in the text and 1 in dark-green on the front cover, 8 plates and 3 tables. Original boards with woodcut by Kandinsky. One of the most important books of the expressionism. Ref.: Röthel 82-92. $2,750.00
Xylographies. Paris, Edition des Tendances Nouvelles, 1909. Square spine folded folio. Contains 4 pages of preface and index, preface by Gerome-Maesse. 5 heliogravure plates, printed in black, reproducing 5 woodcuts by Kandinsky, 1 smaller woodcut reproduced above index. Cover of the portfolio also has 2 additional small woodcuts in reproduction on each cover (front and back). Preface and index plus the plates are loose as published. Edition of 1,000 copies. $2,500.00
Kandinsky. Grohmann Will. Paris: Editions " Cahiers d'art ", 1931. Quarto, editor paper-hard-boards binding, in printed slipcase. Illustrated with a colored woodcut by KANDINSKY and numerous plates in black. This is one of the 500 copies printed on Torpes vellum paper, of a total edition of 610 numbered copies. Sixth book of the series " Les Grands Peintres d'Aujourd'hui ". $2,500.00
Regards sur le passe`. Kandinsky, Vassily. Paris, Edition Pierre Belfond, 1971. One of 100 copies of a total edition of 120 copies, signed and numbered by Nina Kandinsky. With 10 original wood cuts by Kandinsky of which 5 in color. Loose as issued in original cover in blue green silk box. Rothel 72, 100, 106, 113, 124, 126, 127, 134, 143 and 146. $5,000.00
KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig
DAS WERK ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNERS. Grohmann, Will. Munich, GERMANY & Humblebaek, DENMARK: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1925. As Issued. First Edition 1/850. Artist Monograph. Square Square 4to. 96 b&w and 4 color illustrations + 5 original Kirchner woodcuts, printed in blue as chapter headings. Text in German. In a protective clear acetate dust wrapper. $2,500.00
KOKOSCHKA, Oscar
Jerusalem Faces. Kokoschka, Oskar. London: Marlborough Graphics and George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. Complete set of 6 original lithographs by Kokoschka. Atlas folio, loose as issued in original grey cloth-covered folio box, with original grey cardboard shipping container. One of 150 copies, with each portrait signed by the artist in pencil. The portraits were created by the artist during his visit to Jerusalem in April, 1973. $4,000.00
LEGER Fernand
Fernand Leger. Teriade, E. Editions "Cahiers d'Art" Paris 1928. One of 748 copies on "velin de torpes", with 5 full-page pochoirs. $1,250.00
MAILLOL Aristide
Daphnis and Chloe. Printed in Paris by Philippe Gonin, 1937. A most sweet, and pleasant pastoral romance, of which the Maillol’s woodcuts, capturing the idyllic and pagan atmosphere of this famous love-story. One of 500 copies out of commerce on Maillol paper on hand-made paper, manufactured by an old process rediscovered by Aristide Maillol. Signed. 54 woodcut by Maillol with an extra suite printed in sanguigna. Ref. : Wheeler, 106. SOLD
Concert d'Eté. Pons, J.-S. and Maillol, A. Paris: Flammarion, 1945. Original text woodcuts by Maillol. Loose papers as issued in original printed wraps, slipcase & chemise. One of 200 copies on Lana paper, of total edition of 305 numbered copies. SOLD
Quinti Horatii Flacci Carmina. Odes d'Horace. Philippe Gonin, Paris 1939 (1958). 2 volumes. The Latin text with a new French translation by Baron Delort, and a study of Horace by Mme. Michel Roussier. Illustrated with 120 wood engravings by Aristide Maillol. 8vo. Loose as issued, in picotrial wrappers, boards, enclosed in slipcases. One of 350 sets initialed by Philippe Gonin, the publisher. Begun in 1939, this edition was dormant until 1945 and then printed and published in 1958. $4,000.00
MAN Ray
Man Ray Photographs 1920 - 1934. Paris. New York: Hartford, CT & NY: James Thrall Soby & Random House, 1934. First Edition. Long quarto-sized, spiral-bound, stiff color-illustrated wrappers, pp. [14], plus 104 full-page monochromes of Man Ray's visually stunning photographs, divided here into six groups, each introduced by other artists. The last section consists of 19 rayographs. All photographs engraved and printed in France by the Neogravure Co.; the cover and binding are by Draeger Freres, and the Reliure Plastic Brevetee respectively. $ 6,500.00
Les Mains libres. ELUARD, Paul. Paris Editions Jeanne Bucher 1937. First edition. Limited to 675 copies. Inscribed on the half-title by Man Ray. 4to, illustrated throughout with line drawings by Man Ray, original decorated wrappers. $2,500.00
MARCOUSSIS, Louis
Indicateur des chemins de coeur. Eaux-fortes de Louis Marcoussis. Tzara, Tristan. Paris (Jeanne Bucher), 1928. 46 pp., 3 original etchings. 4to. Glassine dust jacket, uncut. One of 86 copies on vélin d Arches from the limited edition of 106 copies in all. Marcoussis first etched illustrations. $5,500.00
MASSON André
Septieme Chant. Jouffroy, Alain . Paris: Societe International d'Art XXe Siècle, 1974. One of 75 copies with an additional suite, on japon, with 4 signed gravures by Masson, signed on colophon by artist and by author. $2,250.00
MATTA Roberto
Vivante Mortalite. Petit Francis. Paris Editions Georges Visat, 1973. Tol Quarto. 7 etchings and aquatints in color, each of them signed and numbered, in pencil. Total edition 125 copie. $5,500.00
MIRÓ Joan
Cahiers D’art: Peinture, Sculpture, Architecture, Art Ancien, Ethnographie, Cinema. Nr.1- 4. Zervos, Illustrated by Miro`. Paris: Editions "Cahiers d'Art", 1934. First Edition. 123 pp.; very rare issue devoted to the work of Jean Miró; with contributions in French by Christian Zervos, Maurice Raynal, Robert Desnos, Benjamin Peret, Ernest Hemingway (in English), Rene Gaffe, George Antheil, Will Grohmann (in German) and others. With two full page pochoirs by Miro`; further articles on Brancusi, Chagall and DADA in painting; softcover. Ref: Cramer books III, Dupin 14-15. $5,500.00
Il etait une petite pie. Lise Hirtz. Editions Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1928. A 38 page volume with 8 pochoirs by Miro`. 300 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. With original slipcase. SOLD
Cahiers d'Ombres. (MIRO. Denis, P.).
With 4 original colour lithographs, of which 3 are signed, and one is the unsigned wrapper. Loose as issued in publisher's wrappers. Edition limited to 230 copies, this one of 200 on velin d'Arches. Signed on colophon by the author. Cramer 143. SOLD
L'issue derobee. Jacques Dupin. Paris: Maeght, 1974. One of 220 copies on Arches wove, with 10 drypoint with aquatint in colors (without the planches refusee and without the monotype) by Miro. Ref: Cramer 187, Dupin 687-706. $9,000.00
Joan Miró lithographs: Volumes I, II, III, IV. Barcelona and Paris: Poligrafa Publishing (I, 1972 and II, 1975), Weber (III-IV, 1977,1981). Original white buckram, original dust jackets. Text in Spanish (I and II) and German (III and IV). Four Volumes. The complete catalogue raisonné of Miró's lithographic work, with 32 superb original lithographs (many double-page) and four original lithographic dust jackets. Limited edition, one of 5000 copies printed (only 4000 for Vol. IV). Fine in fine dust jackets. SOLD
Bouquet de Reves pour Neila. Goll, Ivan. Paris: F. Mourlot, 1967, first edition, one of 150 copies, signed in pencil by Joan Miro on the justification page, with text by Ivan Goll in French, illustrated with 18 original color lithographs, 7 hors-texte, of which 3 are double-page; 84 pages, loose leaves, printed on Rives, contained in wrapper portfolio with an additional color litho; copy in the original cloth chemise and slipcase. References: Cramer 115; Mourlot 531-549; Monod 5559. SOLD
MORANDI Giorgio
Giorgio Morandi: Opera Grafica. Vitali, Lamberto. Giulio Einaudi Editore, Italy, 1957. First Edition. One of 1000 copies printed. 117 lithographs plates of the works in "Acqua forte su zinco"(etchings) from 1912 to 1956. All lithographs come in a singular paper cover with title and the date of the work, written on. The complete portfolio are collected in a fine box in light green cloth, with slipcase in same color of the box. This edition of "Giorgio Morandi opera grafica" is very rare. $2,500.00
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