Lot 291
  • 291

Salacrou, Armand

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • printed book
Le Casseur d'assiettes.  Pièce en un acte.  Paris: Éditions de la Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], (1924)



4to (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 260 x 190 mm, uncut).  Title-page in red and black with Kahnweiler's device by Derain, 4 lithographs hors texte by Juan Gris signed "JG" on the stone.   Original wrappers, lithographed illustration by Gris; minimal wear.  Original glassine over wrappers.

Literature

Artist & the Book 125; Chapon, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, p. 184

Condition

4to (10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 260 x 190 mm, uncut). Title-page in red and black with Kahnweiler's device by Derain, 4 lithographs hors texte by Juan Gris signed "JG" on the stone. Original wrappers, lithographed illustration by Gris; minimal wear. Original glassine over wrappers.
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Catalogue Note

Copy 6 of 10 numbered copies on japon impérial (of a whole edition of 112), signed by Salacrou and Gris.  Gris's second book (of five) for Kahnweiler, the first being Max Jacob's Ne coupez pas mademoiselle.