May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CURIOSA.) [Lurçat, Jean; and Jablonski, Pierre-Charles. Roger ou les à côte de l'ombrelle. Printed on pink Ingres paper. Portrait line engraving attributed to Modigliani, one page of manuscript facsimile, and 5 hand-tinted hors texte engravings by Lurçat. 4to, 1/4 navy morocco gilt over marbled blue boards, extremities slightly rubbed; original front wrapper bound in; woodcut ex-libris laid in. number 63 of 100 on ingres, from a total edition of 110. Meudon (Paris): Éditions de l'Ombrelle/Jeanne Bucher, 1926

Additional Details

first edition of a lovely early 20th century erotic work clandestinely published by jeanne bucher. Preceding World War I, Lurçat, Jablonski and Bucher published an avant-garde revue called Les Feuilles de Mai and it was Bucher who edited the early works of Lurçat including his famous Baroques in 1925. Pia Enfer 1277; Dutel 2335.