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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
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.
John Bodley & Theo Crosby, Living Arts, issues 1-3, London, 1963-64. Estimate $800 to $1,200.
Herbert Bayer, Cohama Ties, advertising proof, New York, 1944. Estimate $600 to $900.
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
Georges Rouault, Cirque de l’Étoile Filante, Paris, 1938. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.
Hans Bellmer & Georges Hugnet, Oeillades ciselées en branch, Paris, 1939. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000.
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
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
Eugène Grasset, La Plante et ses applications Ornementales, with 72 plates, Paris, 1895. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.
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.
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.
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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