May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BRAQUE, GEORGES.) Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich. Les Facheux. 2 volumes in 1. Black-and-white plate reproducing portrait of Georges Auric by Cocteau; facsimile of page of music by Auric; 23 color plates reproducing set and costume designs by Braque; 23 photographic plates comprising portraits of Braque and costumed Diaghilev dancers. 4to, rebound in plain green buckram, rubbed, spine discolored; original wrappers with illustrations by Braque bound in. Paris: Éditions des Quatres Chemins, 1924

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each volume numbered 193 of 385 copies on Arches from a total edition of 500. Les Facheux was a ballet conceived by Boris Kochno after Molière, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska to music by Auric, and first performed by the Diaghilev ballet at Monte Carlo in 1924.