May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(CUBISM.) Gleizes, Albert; and Metzinger, Jean. Du Cubisme. Prints by Pablo Picasso (Bloch 29; Geiser 42), Marcel Duchamp, Marie Laurencin, Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Francis Picabia, Jacques Villon [Ginestat and Pouillon E295], and after Georges Braque, André Derain, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger. 4to, original wrappers printed in gold and black; board chemise and slipcase, worn, with darkened spine, split joints, and top panel of slipcase lacking. Paris: Compagnie Française des Arts Graphiques, 1947

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number 255 on lana from a total edition of 455. First published in 1912, this expanded, second revised edition contains 11 additional plates by important artists of the movement including Picasso's l'Homme au chapeau, Laurencin's Tête de jeune Fille; an etching by and after Marcel Duchamp [Schwarz 398]. It remains one of the most important works on Cubism. The Artist & the Book 89; Johnson & Stein, Artists' Books in the Modern Era, 122.