Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,000
Sommier, François Clément [aka Henri Somm] (1844-1907)
Dessins Humoristiques d'Henri Somm.

[?Paris, late-19th to early 20th century.]

Unique album, folio, containing twenty-four original ink drawings by the Rouen artist working in the circle of Henri Toulouse Lautrec, Edgar Degas, and Mary Cassatt, mounted and framed drawings on text leaves and endpapers; bound in contemporary black morocco blind tooled with floral motif by René Kieffer, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; leaves a bit toned and lightly foxed at edges, a few leaves starting to detach from stub; joints lightly rubbed, boards slightly bowed; 12 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.