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Jacob, Max (1876-1944) Dos d'Arlequin.
Paris: Aux editions du Sagittaire, 1921.
First edition, limited issue, octavo; copy number 17 of 25 printed on Japanese paper from a total run of 272 of which 22 were hors de commerce; text printed in red and black; illustrated with frontispiece, three full-page color woodcut illustrations by the author (with tissue guards preserved), and numerous text illustrations; partially unopened with an additional suite of 11 illustrations on papier de Chine laid in at rear; bound in a cardstock wrapper printed with black and red, the original glassine intact (minor spotting to one plate; wrapper starting and split in one place, minor nicks at the glassine edges); 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
Max Jacob: French artist, critic, and writer, worked in Picasso's circle alongside other visionaries such as Jean Cocteau, Amadeo Modigliani, and Jean Hugo. Jacob was Jewish and formed part of the modernist school which was notoriously despised by the Nazi party. Jacob was captured and deported in January 1944. He died at the Drancy internment camp shortly after his arrest, a few days before he was to be transferred to Auschwitz. The soft, sketch-like illustrations in the Dos d'Arlequin almost dance off the page, a testament to Jacob's wide-ranging talents and vibrant early work.
