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Description: Brosch. m. OU. Gr.8°, montiertes farbiges Frontispiz, 194 S. mit 125 Abb. auf Tafeln (davon 7 farbig u. montiert), 1 Bl. Impressum; 4 lose Streifen Kontaktabzüge. Rücken broschurbedingt etw. knickspurig, OU etw. unsauber, innen tadellos. Französischsprachige EA. Mit Widmung von Fernand Léger in blauem Kugelschreiber an den Schweizer Kunstsammler und Mäzen Curt Burgauer auf Schmutztitel («a M. Burgauer / Cordialement / Zurich 20 - 3 - [19]50 / F. Léger»); ebendort zwei montierte Kontaktabzüge von Fotografien von René Groebli, Burgauer und Léger in einem (wohl) Zürcher Restaurant zeigend (einmal den Künstler beim Signieren des vorliegenden Exemplars, einmal die beiden mit Begleitung [jeweils ca. 6,0 x 6,0 cm]). Lose beiliegend 4 Streifen mit 10 weiteren Abzügen gleichen Formats und ähnlichen Inhalts (deren 2 verso mit Teilen desselben grünen Stempels des Fotografen [«Copyright by / René Groebli / Zurich»]).
Seller: Antiquariat Uhlmann, Zürich, Switzerland
RIMBAUD (Arthur). Les illuminations.. Lausanne, Grosclaude - Editions des Gaules, 1949., 1949.
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Description: Gr. in-4°, 134p. Edition de luxe tirée à 395 exemplaires sur vélin teinté et illustrée de 15 lithographies originales de Fernand Léger. Avec une préface manuscrite reproduite en facsimilé de Henri Miller. Cet exemplaire est sans doute un exemplaire de passe, non justifié et qui n'a pas été signé par l'artiste et l'éditeur. Toutes les lithographies sont en noir (alors que normalement, 6 d'entre elles sont coloriées au pochoir). Une curiosité. en feuilles, sous couverture imprimée rempliée, chemise et étui neutres.
Seller: Le Cabinet d'Amateur, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
RIMBAUD Arthur LEGER Fernand. Illuminations. , 1949.
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Description: "(LÉGER, Fernand) (MILLER, Henry) RIMBAUD, Arthur. Les Illuminations. Lithographies Originales de Fernand Leger. Lausanne: Grosclaude, Editions des Gaules, (1949). Folio (10 by 13 inches), contemporary full brown morocco, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original printed paper wrappers bound in. Housed in matching leather-edged marbled slipcase. $5900.Lovely signed limited illustrated edition of one of Rimbaud's most important poetical works, with 15 splendid original full-page lithographs by Fernand Léger12 vividly hand-colored using the pochoir techniqueone of only 275 copies on handmade paper (from a total edition of 395), signed on the limitation page by Léger and publisher Louis Grosclaude. With Preface by Henry Miller. Handsomely bound in full morocco with original paper wrappers bound in."Arthur Rimbaud, a poet of precocious genius and violent, unstable character, began writing at 15 and abandoned literature some five, or possibly ten, years later. At 37, after years as a trader and explorer at Harar and in the interior of Abyssinia, he died unaware that he had become a master for the Symbolists. He now counts as one of the strongest influences on modern, and not only French, poetry Rimbaud went farther than any poet before him in the exploration of the subconscious and, technically, in experimenting with rhythm and the use of words as units, without any syntactical relationship, purely for their evocative and sensational value" (Harvey & Heseltine, 619-20)."Every age brings some new elements which should serve us; the great difficulty is to translate them into plastic terms Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water" (Fernand Léger). MoMA's first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., succinctly defined Léger as a "French Cubist whose forms are polished and cylindrical like steel, clangorous in red and black like new fire engines." In this finely printed work, Léger incorporates some of Rimbaud's text directly into several of his images. Three of Léger's 15 lithographs are black-and-white. The text of Henry Miller's four-page Preface is also lithographed. Text in French. Text clean, original lithographs fine with vivid coloring. Front joint rubbed but sound. An about-copy."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.