BARBIER GEORGES Loüys Pierre Les Chansons de Bilitis 1922

Sale 2110 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 12,000

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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000

(BARBIER, GEORGES.) Loüys, Pierre. Les Chansons de Bilitis. 42 designs by Barbier, engraved on wood and colored by François-Louis Schmied (19 hors texte, 23 in texte). Folio, contents loose as issued in pictorial brown wrappers, joints creased, two horizontal splits in spine with residual triangular chip and clean tear, the latter extending into front cover. Paris: Pierre Corrard, 1922

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number 6 of 125 copies signed by barbier. a collaboration by art deco masters barbier and schmied. Among the most beautiful works of the period and one of the best examples of Barbier's early work. Begun in 1914, the production of Les Chansons de Bilitis was halted by the death of Pierre Corrard at the onset of the war, and only completed by his widow in 1922.