LEGRAND LOUIS Cours de Danse fin de Siècle

Sale 2358 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 406

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

LEGRAND, LOUIS. Cours de Danse fin de Siècle. Engraved frontispiece and 10 hors text engravings with lettered tissue guards, color vignettes and decorative initials. Tall 4to, gilt-lettered 3/4 deep rose morocco over marbled paper boards, joints and tips a bit rubbed, few minor scuffs; top edges trimmed and gilt; original wrappers bound in. Paris, 1892

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One of 350 unnumbered copies, after an edition of 50 on Japon. "The etchings are exercises in Zolaesque naturalism. No more than with Degas is there anything titillating about the dancers' poses; indeed, Legrand seems to have selected their most difficult positions"--Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 342.