May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CHARLOT, JEAN.) Claudel, Paul. Picture Book. Translated into English by Elise Cavanna. One loose, signed lithograph of plate 16 laid in; 32 color lithographs by Charlot. 4to, printed wrappers, very minor wear. Text handset by Lynton R. Kistler; printed at the plant of Will Kistler; designed by Merle Armitage * Picture Book II. Color lithographs by Charlot. 4to, pictorial wrappers and slipcase. Number 241 of 1000 copies signed by Charlot and Kistler. Housed together in a custom red silk cloth clamshell box with calf gilt spine label. New York, 1933; Los Angeles, 1973
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Picture Book is number 405 of 500 copies signed by Charlot, Kistler and Armitage. "The beautiful illustrations in this book, typical of Charlot's Mexican figure style, are these lithographs, drawn by the artist on zinc plates rather than stones"--The Artist & The Book 54.