Lot 293
  • 293

Satie, Érik

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • printed book
Le Piège de Méduse.  Paris: Éditions de la Galerie Simon [Daniel-Hnery Kahnweiler], (1921)



Folio (13 x 9 in.; 330 x 228 mm, uncut).  Title-page in red and black with Kahnweiler's device by Derain, printed musical score, 3 woodcut vignettes by Georges Braque, printed in colors; dust-soiling at edges of some leaves.  Original printed wrappers; soiled, edges frayed, foot of spine chipped.



 

Provenance

Purchased E. Weyhe, New York, 8 October 1957

Literature

Artist & the Book 33; Artists' Books in the Modern Era 29; Castleman, Century p. 172; Chapon, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, p. 181; Stein, Cubist Books 69

Condition

Folio (13 x 9 in.; 330 x 228 mm, uncut). Title-page in red and black with Kahnweiler's device by Derain, printed musical score, 3 woodcut vignettes by Georges Braque, printed in colors; dust-soiling at edges of some leaves. Original printed wrappers; soiled, edges frayed, foot of spine chipped.
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Catalogue Note

Copy 53 of 90 copies on  Van Gelder Hollande (of a whole edition of 112), signed by Satie and Braque.  These woodcuts, Braque's first book illustrations, "are important examples of post-war Cubist graphic art and show Braque's relaxation from the rigorous discipline of early Cubist and form and color" (Artist & the Book).