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LÉGER. RIMBAUD (Arthur).
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LÉGER. RIMBAUD (Arthur).
Les illuminations. Lausanne, Grosclaude, Éditions des Gaules, 1949. In-4, cream box, smooth spine, author, illustrator and title gilt, boards decorated with an abstract geometric composition composed of various leather pieces in different shades including azure, marbled gray, elm burl, anise, light wood, gilt head, cream half-box folder with flaps lined with gray suede, slipcase [Monique Mathieu] (slight rubbing to spine of folder and edges of slipcase).
Edition illustrated with 15 original lithographs by Fernand Léger, including 12 in color.
Limited edition of 395 copies| one of 75 on heavy tinted vellum paper, (no. 100, 2nd paper after the top 25), containing a suite in black on Chine of all the lithographs.
Signatures of Fernand Léger and Louis Grosclaude, who supervised the printing of the lithographs and stencilled them in color, in the justification.
Dazzling original binding signed by Monique Mathieu (1927-2024) and dated 1987.
PROVENANCE
Maurice J. Lachard (by descent).
Les illuminations. Lausanne, Grosclaude, Éditions des Gaules, 1949. In-4, cream box, smooth spine, author, illustrator and title gilt, boards decorated with an abstract geometric composition composed of various leather pieces in different shades including azure, marbled gray, elm burl, anise, light wood, gilt head, cream half-box folder with flaps lined with gray suede, slipcase [Monique Mathieu] (slight rubbing to spine of folder and edges of slipcase).
Edition illustrated with 15 original lithographs by Fernand Léger, including 12 in color.
Limited edition of 395 copies| one of 75 on heavy tinted vellum paper, (no. 100, 2nd paper after the top 25), containing a suite in black on Chine of all the lithographs.
Signatures of Fernand Léger and Louis Grosclaude, who supervised the printing of the lithographs and stencilled them in color, in the justification.
Dazzling original binding signed by Monique Mathieu (1927-2024) and dated 1987.
PROVENANCE
Maurice J. Lachard (by descent).