Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts

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Matisse, Cinquante dessins, Paris, 1920, 2 copies, original wrappers, one copy inscribed to Jacquemin

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July 14, 03:14 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

MATISSE, HENRI


Cinquante dessins. Album édité par les soins de l'artiste. (Paris: Victor Jacquemin), 1920


4to (305 x 212mm.), 2 copies: copy no.I, one of 3 copies with the plates crossed through, with a loose additional plate with a manuscript note "Cette planche est supprimée et sera remplacée par une autre", and copy no. 95 INSCRIBED BY MATISSE TO THE PRINTER, from a limited edition of 1,000 copies, etched frontispiece (signed by Matisse in copy no. 95) and 50 plates, all with printed tissue guards, both copies in original printed wrappers, uncut, in a modern morocco drop-back box, plates 3-4 misbound in copy no. 95 and with repaired spine


PROVENANCE:

"A Victor Jacquemin, mon collaborateur, cordialement Henri Matisse", inscription on flyleaf of copy no.95


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