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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(BARBIER, GEORGE.) Vogel, Lucien; editor. Gazette du Bon Ton: Arts, Modes & Frivolités. 3 volumes containing November 1912-April 1913; May 1913-October 1913; December-June 1914. Beautiful single and double-page pochoir plates by Barbier, Marty, Brissaud, Lepape, Lorioux, Carlegle, Fauçonnet, Boutet de Monvel, Henriot, Vaudoyer, and numerous others, plus 7 original watercolors by george barbier tipped to front blanks. Thick 4to, 3/4 green morocco with colored calf roses in four spine compartments, lettering in 3, with gold borders, by rené kieffer, signed and with reliure stamp, joints and hinges tender, front cover loose on Volume 3, spines evenly faded to brown, light scuffing to extremities; original covers bound in, interiors bright and fine, with advertisements and contents bound in. Ex-collection Estate of Mary Kettaneh from René Kieffer. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1912-14
with seven charming original ink and watercolor vignettes by george barbier of mostly courtship scenes. All rendered in shades of tan, orange, black, and brown, measuring approximately 95x99 mm; 3 3/4x4 inches. One each appear in the first two volumes with captions, five in the final volume, uncaptioned.
