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Upcoming Highlights: Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics

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At Auction January 29

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Taking place during Bibliography Week in New York City, this auction focuses on fine twentieth-century livres d’artiste. Among a large number of Art Deco masterworks is George Barbier and F.L. Schmied’s luscious, sensuous collaboration, Le Cantique des Cantiques. Also included is Sonia Delaunay’s 1925 tour-de-force of Simultaneous Contrast design theory, Ses Peintures, Ses Objets

Fine American press books feature the rare portfolio of six signed, numbered etchings by Richard Diebenkorn accompanying the Arion Press Poems of W.B.Yeats, unique bindings of extremely limited editions by the Cheloniidae Press, and from Leonard Baskin, founder of the Gehenna Press, a specially dedicated double-suite set from an edition of 15 copies of Diptera: A Book of Flies & Other Insects, 1983.

Masterpieces of Modernist artists’ books include fine copies of Georges Rouault’s rare 1938 Cirque de l’Étoile Filante and Passion, and German Expressionist high spots Wassily Kandinsky’s Klänge and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Umbra Vitae in original bindings. Important examples of design and typography, architecture, Asian and European fine arts, and graphics will round out this rich sale.

 

Contemporary Art & Graphic Design Works

 

two etchings, a coat and a map, by Diebenkorn

W.B. Yeats, Poems, illustrated by Richard Diebenkorn, accompanied by a suite of six etchings by Diebenkorn, Arion Press, 1990. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.

 

front and back cover of Living Arts magazine

John Bodley & Theo Crosby, Living Arts, issues 1-3, London, 1963-64. Estimate $800 to $1,200.

 

poster proof for a tie advertisement by Hervert Bayer

Herbert Bayer, Cohama Ties, advertising proof, New York, 1944. Estimate $600 to $900.

 

a beige square

Robert Ryman, Prints 1969-1993, one of 50 copies with signed, numbered etching, Parasol Press, New York, 1993. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.

 

 

 

Modern Livres d’Artiste

 

4 aquatint illustration by Georges Rouault

Georges Rouault, Cirque de l’Étoile Filante, Paris, 1938. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.

 

Bellmer's automatic writing manuscript reproduced in heliogravure

Hans Bellmer & Georges Hugnet, Oeillades ciselées en branch, Paris, 1939. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.

 

full spread of the binding

Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae, illustrated by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, first edition, Munich, 1924. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.

 

Wassily Kandinsky, Klänge, first edition with 56 woodcuts, Munich, 1913. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.

 

 

Fine Press Books

 

etching of a fly by Leon Baskin

Leonard Baskin, Diptera: A Book of Flies & Other Insects, 33 etchings with watercolor, Gehenna Press, 1983. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.

 

Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, special publisher’s copy for the illustrator, Alan James Robinson, the first book from the Cheloniidae Press, 1980. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.

 

 

 

Art Nouveau to Art Deco

 

Image of a plate from La Plante et ses applications Ornementales, by Eugène Grasset.

Eugène Grasset, La Plante et ses applications Ornementales, with 72 plates, Paris, 1895. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.

 

two plates from Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling, Le Livre de la Jungle, with plates by Paul Jouve, engraved by F.L. Schmied, Société du livre contemporain, Paris, 1919. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000.

 

blue and purple pochoir of a woman in front of a many-paned window

Georges Lepape, Les Choses de Paul Poiret, 12 pochoir plates, Paris, 1911. Estimate $3,500 to $5,000.

 

François-Louis Schmied, Le Cantique des Cantiques, one of 110 copies, with 80 wood-engraved illustrations, Paris, 1925. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.

 

Image of a plate of fashion designs by Sonia Delaunay.

Sonia Delaunay, Ses Peintures, Ses Objets, Ses Tissues Simultanés, Ses Modes, 20 pochoir plates, Paris, 1925. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.

 

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