Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(WEGENER, GERDA.) Vérineau, Alexandre de (pseud. Louis Perceau). Douze Sonnets lascifs pour accompanger la suite d'aquarelles intitulée Les Délassements d'Éros. 12 pochoirs after watercolors by Wegener produced to accompany a series of erotically charged sonnets by Perceau. 4to, contents loose as issued in cloth-backed gilt-pictorial boards, ususal light soiling, ties present but very frail; plates bright and clean, text signatures unopened. (Paris): Érotopolis, 1924

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First published in 1917 without text, this volume is the first appearance of the plates with Perceau's poems; the images appeared again in Bragnell's Douze Quatrains. The playfully erotic, mostly Sapphic images each contain Wegener's trademark discarded black mask in the background. Pia 389; Dutel 1434; Monod 11060.