Lot n° 92
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2000 - 3000
EUR
Denis Maurice - Lot 92
Denis Maurice
Carnets de voyage en Italie 1921-1922. Paris, Jacques Beltrand, 1925. Large in-4, bound in full morocco with slipcase. Minor restoration to be expected on the slipcase. Superb binding protected by a half chestnut morocco striped folder, smooth spine with title. Bound in havana morocco with continuous Corinthian-style columns of gilded and cold-stamped fillets on the boards and spine, moire endpapers and back covers in the same tone as the binding. Bound by Georges Cretté, successor to Marius Michel.
One of Maurice Denis' great painter's books, here he publishes notes and watercolors taken on the spot, admirably engraved by the Beltrand brothers. Slight smudging of some wood on the facing page, some scattered spotting, particularly on the first 4 leaves.
The notebooks cover Sicily, Rome, Siena and Florence in 1921, and Venice and Padua in 1922. Edition of 175 copies on Arche vellum, this one numbered 137. 34 wood-engraved color compositions, 4 of them full-page.
Rare in such a well-established binding.
Consultant : Sylvain LANGLOIS
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