Tzara, Tristan

Indicateur des chemins de cœur.  Paris: Éditions Jeanne Bucher, (1928)



4to (11 1/8 x  7 5/8 in.; 282 x 193 mm, unopened).  3 fine etchings by Louis Marcoussis, printed by Paul Haasen, text printed by R. Coulouma.  Publisher's wrappers with vignette by Marcoussis on front cover; partially disbound, wrappers detached, some soiling and chipping.  Brown buckram clamshell case, brown morocco gilt label on front cover.



 

Heinrich Stinnes (aquired from the publisher 5 March 1928, with his bold signature and inscription on the initial blank)

Manet to Hockney 82

As described in catalogue description.
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Copy 1, exemplaire de tête.  One of 4 copies on japon impérial with an original drawing by Marcoussis, a set of proofs before letters and a set of proofs from the cancelled plates.  The whole edition comprises 100 copies. 

This exemplaire de tête is from the collection of the German bibliophile Heinrich Stinnes (1867–1932).  The original, which is a study for the frontispiece, is signed by Marcoussis in the upper right corner.  Beneath the image, it is inscribed by Marcoussis, "pour l'exemplaire de Monsieur Heini Stinnes.  L. M.  24.2.28".

"The illustrations which Marcoussis provided for the poems of his friend Tzara were done in 1927, and they show a Cubist approach independent from the Surrealist  art [then] prevalent in Paris" (Manet to Hockney).