2000, ISBN: 9781556601019

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

n.p., n.y. [Paris]: Salmon, Andre. 1st Edition. Marcel Vertès. n.p., n.y. [Paris]: Salmon, Andre. Marcel Vertès. 1st Edition. Salmon, Andre. [1881-1969]. French poet, art c… Mehr…

n.p., n.y. [Paris]: Salmon, Andre. 1st Edition. Marcel Vertès. n.p., n.y. [Paris]: Salmon, Andre. Marcel Vertès. 1st Edition. Salmon, Andre. [1881-1969]. French poet, art critic & writer. He was one of the defenders of cubism, with Apollinaire and Maurice Raynal; an authentic member of the 'Avant-Garde'. In 1904, lived in Bateau-Lavoir with Picasso, Max Jacob and Apollinaire. In 1964 he was awarded the Grand Prix for poetry by the French Academy. Autographed Manuscript Signed. N.p., n.d. 4to, full page in green fountain pen on pad paper stock. Several corrections. Lovely content - the entire text in French about the artist & illustrator, Marcel Vertès. [Wasn't it Pierre MacOrlan who discovered Vertès?] "N'est-est pas Pierre MaCorlan qui découvrit Vertès? Acte de foi ou placement de père de famille? Altruism ou traite des noirs? Freveur de l'esprit? Simplicite du coeur? Que sais-je! Comme disait l'autre, le grand autre. Mais si Vertès ne se peut abondonner, non sans fièvre, qu'a l'exceptionnel du plus aigu modernisme, ce sera donc que, venu de loin, excepté de la petite peur des façon del la vielle pour être entré en bolide dans le present, l'etranger sensible se voit attribuer la mission de renouer les fils de tradition". A beautiful 'Hommage' to Budapest born Vertès [1895 - 1961], an outstanding 20th century painter, printmaker & illustrator, who moved to Paris during the First World War. Living and working in the famous Latin Quarter, Vertes quickly established himself as one of the most important artists of the Paris scene, thus continuing in the footsteps of Boutet, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec & others. The art of Marcel Vertes was at its peak during the vibrant & somewhat wild decade of the 1920s. Concentrating upon scenes of Paris street life, portrayals of women & depictions of circus & cabaret acts, Vertès left a legacy of original lithographs & drawings that superbly capture the spirit of 1920s Paris. Vertes would be also be noted for his stunning line of Schiaparelli perfume advertisements., Salmon, Andre, 0, Paris: Np, 1951. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. quarter vellum and illustrated cream portfolio, vellum backed. Near fine in very good slipcase. 291 pages. Folio, 45 x 35 cm. Copy 161 of a total edition of 280 copies. 33 engraved plates and numerous woodcut vignettes. Engravings were printed by Georges Leblanc on the presses of Marthe Fecquet and Pierre Baudier. The woodblock text ornaments by Paul Baudier after designs by Derain. Ambrose Vollard commissioned this project in the 1930's, the latter's death and World War II prevented completion until 1951. An early member of the Fauve group, and the Cubist movement, Derain participated in the elaboration of Cubism, but refused to adhere to the movement, turning toward study of the Old Masters. As Douglas Cooper states [see: THE CUBIST EPOCH p.68], "Derain understood the full purport of all that Braque and Picasso were attempting to do (in their Cubist period). But in his own work he followed another line of development." Loose as issued in unsewn sheets in cream wrappers. Slight toning to portfolio vellum., Np, 1951, 4, Avant Garde Masterpiece by Rudolf Krajc One of 17 CopiesKrajc, Rudolf (1907-1934), illustratorDivi¨, Vladimir Svoboda, Franti¨ek Xaver, 1860-1943, printer (conceptually)Píse o ¦temberkovi [Songs of ¦temberk]Horní Ves (Bohemia), Aqua Toffana/ Vladimir Divi¨, December 1931Copy 10 of an edition of 17, with (5) original woodblock prints by Kajec. Folio. (39.5 x 29cm)Superb and extremely rare artist's book from the short-lived Aqua Toffana series of 1930-1931, conceived jointly by the Czech author and art critic Vladimir Divi¨ and the renowned Czech author Franti¨ek Xaver Svoboda. Just two volumes were issued in 1931, in editions of 15 and 17 copies respectively, both with illustrations by Rudolf Krajc. The series takes its name from the Neapolitan poison Aqua Tofana of the 17th century, apparently often used by wives to poison their abusive husbands. The volume reprints a love poem titled Songs of ¦temberk extracted from the proto-slavic literary Manuscripts of Dvr Králové, forgeries supposedly discovered by Václav Hanka in 1817, but actually created by him in an effort to support the idea of an early literature of Old Czech. Proven to be forgeries in the late 19th-Century, they had nevertheless become engrained in the collective consciousness of the region. The artist, Rudolf Krajc adjusts the forged poem into an exploration of human sexuality and lesbianism. As an artist, Krajc was a proponent of cubism in the form of woodblock printing. Before his untimely death from tuberculosis in 1934, he had managed to cultivate a close relationship with important members of the Czech avant garde, including Jindich ¦tyrský and Toyen. Krajc's work was included in the second volume of ¦tyrský's Eroticka revue [Erotic Review] in 1932, directly beside that of Picasso and V.H Brunner. The same year, ¦tyrský also called on Krajc to illustrate one of the six volumes of his erotic Edice 69 series, a collection of selections from Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Nougaret. Krajc was also a frequent contributor, with Adolf Hoffmeister, Vojtch Tittelbach, and Franti¨ek Tichý, to the satirical student magazine of the avant garde TRN[The Thorn], while his work was later included along with that of ¦tyrský, Toyen, Vaclav Masak, Emil Filla at the Galerie 1900-2000 exhibition Erotisme et surrealisme en Tchecoslovaquiein Paris (1993)., Aqua Toffana, 1931, 0, AW Fine Arts, Distribution. New. 1979. Hardcover. 1556601018 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- - 4to. 26 x 32 cm. 378 pp. Illustrated. Text in French., AW Fine Arts, Distribution, 1979, 6<