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BRAQUE, GEORGES; and APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME. Si je mourais là-bas. 18 woodcuts by Braque including two double-page plates, including cover, nine single pages, and seven en-texte, on thick hand-made Chiffon wove paper watermarked LB (Louis Broder). 500x392 mm; 19 3/4x15 7/8 inches, sheets. Folio, contents loose as issued in grey paper covers with woodcuts on front wrapper; additional wrapper in brown paper with black design; parchment-backed chemise, spine rubbed; grey cloth slipcase, scattered soiling and rubbing with surface loss, some early repairs along spine. Paris: Louis Broder, 1962
number 80 of 180 copies signed by braque. While Braque and Apollinaire were closely associated as leading contributors to the great formal revolution of Cubism, the production of Si je mourais là-bas dates to some forty years after the poet's death. The volume includes a dedication, penned by Braque, that reads, 'This book commemorates the eightieth birthday of the artist, the poet's comrade in the trenches,' in reference to the World War I service by both men. Apollinaire died of head wounds suffered during World War I, shortly after completing these poems about love and war. Vallier 181.
