Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME. Les Peintres Cubistes. Première Série. 46 plates of reproductions and portraits of the artists. 4to, buckram and cloth with simple gilt spine label and "Société Anonyme Inc" stamped at foot; original wrappers bound in. Paris: Eugène Figuière et Cie., 1913

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number 2 of only 10 copies printed on japan imperial vellum. Important study on Cubism by one of its earliest champions and hailed by such artists as Robert Motherwell. The works reproduced include Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase," the hit of the 1913 Armory Show in New York City.
with--English translation by Mrs. Charles Knoblauch for the Société Anonyme. Excerpt as printed in The Little Review. 4to, rebound in marbled boards with printed spine and cover labels. [New York, 1922].