Nov 24, 2015 - Sale 2400

Sale 2400 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ROUAULT, GEORGES. Quatorze Planches gravées pour Les Fleurs du Mal [by Baudelaire]. 14 full-page etchings with aquatint, numbered in pencil, lower margins, 450 x 345mm; 18 1/4x13 3/4 inches, sheets. Folio, loose as issued in publisher's printed wrappers, cloth chemise and slipcase. number 400 of 425 copies. The plates were originally executed by Rouault in 1926 and 1927 and printed by Jacquemin for an edition planned by Vollard. The series was never completed, and the plates remained unpublished until their appearance in this volume. Chapon 214-227 Paris, L'étoile filante, 1966

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with:--Stella Vespertina. Introduction by l'Abbé Maurice Morel. Mounted color plates by Rouault. Folio, contents loose as issued in grey paper-covered boards; board chemise and slipcase, worn; internally fine. Number 273 of 2000 copies. Paris: René Drouin, 1947.