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MANET Édouard (1832-1883) - CROS Charles (1842-1888)
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MANET Édouard (1832-1883) - CROS Charles (1842-1888)
Le Fleuve. Eaux-fortes by Édouard Manet
Paris, Librairie de l'Eau-forte, 1874. In-4 (280 x 240 mm), 15 pp.
in sheets, printed cover under crystal paper, untrimmed, in a box-sleeve from the Devauchelle workshop.
Original edition of one of the very first painter's books and the first work illustrated by Manet.
Illustrated with 8 original etchings by Édouard Manet.
Edition of 100 copies, all on Hollande paper, signed in pen by the author and the painter (this one n°23).
"Le Fleuve is the first book of dialogue, Manet is the artist who comes in person, without concern for delegation, to meddle with the illustration of a book, he inaugurates a practice" (PEYRÉ Yves, Peinture et poésie. Le dialogue par le livre. Gallimard, 2001, p.103).
An exceptional and rare copy as issued, with full margins.
PROVENANCE Collection Fred Feinsilber (bookplate)| "JAB" (bookplate composed on red background).
REFERENCES CHAPON François, Le Peintre et le livre, 1987, p.16| The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960. Boston, 1961, n°177.
(Margins faded, very slight spotting| slight rubbing to the spine of the slipcase).
Le Fleuve. Eaux-fortes by Édouard Manet
Paris, Librairie de l'Eau-forte, 1874. In-4 (280 x 240 mm), 15 pp.
in sheets, printed cover under crystal paper, untrimmed, in a box-sleeve from the Devauchelle workshop.
Original edition of one of the very first painter's books and the first work illustrated by Manet.
Illustrated with 8 original etchings by Édouard Manet.
Edition of 100 copies, all on Hollande paper, signed in pen by the author and the painter (this one n°23).
"Le Fleuve is the first book of dialogue, Manet is the artist who comes in person, without concern for delegation, to meddle with the illustration of a book, he inaugurates a practice" (PEYRÉ Yves, Peinture et poésie. Le dialogue par le livre. Gallimard, 2001, p.103).
An exceptional and rare copy as issued, with full margins.
PROVENANCE Collection Fred Feinsilber (bookplate)| "JAB" (bookplate composed on red background).
REFERENCES CHAPON François, Le Peintre et le livre, 1987, p.16| The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960. Boston, 1961, n°177.
(Margins faded, very slight spotting| slight rubbing to the spine of the slipcase).