From Constable to Koons Books Inscribed by Artists

Benjamin Spademan Rare Books The descriptions in the catalogue are brief. Fuller descriptions are available on request. From Constable to Koons All the books are in fine condition, unless otherwise stated. The reproductions are not the actual size. Books Inscribed by Artists

Benjamin Spademan Rare Books 14 Mason’s Yard, London SW1Y 6BU + 44 (0)7768 076772 [email protected] www.benjaminspademan.com

Cover Henri Matisse. Verve, Revue artistique et littéraire, n° 66.

Title page D. G. Rossetti. A Treasure of English Sonnets, n° 82. Benjamin Spademan Rare Books I started putting together this group of books, almost by chance some ten years ago, when I acquired in Paris a monograph on Henry Moore, with an original drawing and presentation by the artist on the title page. Next came a Francis Bacon, and thereafter gradually a collection began to form. To qualify for inclusion, books had to have been personally transformed by the artist, usually as a gift to another person.

The criteria for selection were drawn broadly, to include visual artists of all kinds - painters, sculptors, illustrators, cartoonists, stage & fashion designers - and allowing all kinds of art, from highly finished drawings, collages and watercolours to fairly minimal interventions. The books too covered a wide range of types, from livres d’artistes, to standard monographs, to periodicals, exhibition catalogues and ephemera such as invitations.

In the process of selection, the focus was always on the quality of the image and the interest of the inscription.The earliest examples, John Constable and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, are both intensely personal family affairs. In the case of Constable a present for his god-daughter, the child of his close friend and future biographer; and of Rossetti a celebration - together with his sister, the poet Christina Rossetti - of their mother’s 80th birthday.

In the course of the 20th Century, the practice of artists inscribing books with original drawings became more established, and the circle of recipients widened enormously. A high proportion though remained to people connected to the artists milieu - patrons, collaborators, fellow artists, art critics and museum directors- including such names as Colette, Picasso, Marie Cuttoli, Peggy Guggenheim, Florence Gould and Kenneth Clark.The networks of relationships within the art world revealed by these inscriptions have been second only to the images themselves in contributing to the pleasure I have had in forming this collection.

Benjamin Spademan

John Constable. Songs Divine and Moral, Attempted in Easy Language (n° 28).

5 1. ALECHINSKY, Pierre

Schaerbeek, Belgium 1927 Painter, writer, calligrapher, illustrator

L’Autre Main NP (Saint-Clément): Fata Morgana, 1988.

First edition. Octavo (140 x 220 mm), pp. 152. Publisher’s printed soft covers, pages uncut.

A self-analysis by Alechinsky of the roots of the creative process and of the influence of left- handedness.

Half title full page drawing of a man at a desk, incorporating the printed image of a pair of spectacles that recurs through the text. Inscribed:

‘ à Arnold et Nancy avec l’amitié fidèle de Pierre Alechinsky’.

and dated below:

‘le 31 02 1989’.

6 7 2. ALEXEIEFF, Alexandre

Kazan, Russia 1901 – Paris, France 1982 Illustrator, film maker, animator

Adrienne Mesurat by Julien Green, with original etchings by Alexandre Alexeieff. Paris: Les Exemplaires, 1929.

Quarto (300 x 210 mm). Number 12 of an edition of 99 on “Vélin à la forme des Papeteries de Rives”, with 55 etchings.

Bound in a superb deco binding signed on turn in by E. Schifferson, with the motif of a locked door in brown and gold morocco. With two original steel engraved plates laid in front and back, of illustrations in this book. Publisher’s plain wrappers preserved.

Front free endpaper with a full page fully worked chiaroscuro composition in pencil and ink, depicting a young woman standing, her arms raised with an expression of terror or astonishment, signed below Alexeieff. Inscribed:

‘Paris 1930 à Gustavo Gili ami éclairé du livre, dans l’espoir d’une collaboration, en té= moignage de sympathie admi= rative Alexandre Alexeieff’

Additionally inscribed by Julien Green on half-title:

‘Exemplaire de Monsieur Gustavo Gili Hommage de Julien Green Paris, 12 mai 1931.’

Gustavo Gili was a Catalan publisher and the collaboration referred to is almost certainly an edition of Don Quixote for which Alexeieff completed the etchings, but which never appeared.

8 9 3. ANDO, Tadao

Osaka, Japan 1941 Architect

GA Architect 12 : Tadao Ando , 1988-1993 Edited by Yukio Futagawa, criticism by Tom Heneghan, photography by Yoshio Takase. Tokyo: GA International ADA Edita, 1993.

First edition. Quarto (300 x 310 mm). Vol. 2 of a photographic survey of Ando’s work. Text in Japanese and English. Publisher’s photographic soft covers, slight wear to edges.

Front free endpaper with a full page drawing in blue and green crayon, of a cuboid building standing on a hillside. Inscribed above in Japanese script :

‘to Hachimoto Tamotsu’,

and signed below by Ando, dated 18/11/20.

10 11 4. APPEL, Karel

Amsterdam, Netherlands 1921 – Zürich, Switzerland 2006 Painter, sculptor

Het Gezicht van Appel/ The Face of Apple Text in Dutch and English by Ed Wingen, photographs by Nico Koster. Venlo - Holland: Uitgeverij van Spijk, 1977.

First edition. Quarto (285 x 285 mm), unpaginated. Publisher’s photographic soft covers, some wear to edges.

A comprehensive photographic survey of Appel’s work and life to 1977.

Half title with bold full page composition in coloured crayons, representing a human face. Inscribed on inside cover in coloured crayons:

‘Pour Dominique + Christian de Karel 25 sept 1980.’

12 13 5. ARAKI Nobuyoshi

Tokyo, Japan 1940 Artist and photographe

Shashin-Ron Theory of Photography. Tokyo: Tojusha, 1981.

First edition. Octavo (150 x 215 mm), pp. 223 illustrated with two sections of eight page foldouts of Araki’s contact sheets of lesbian sex and women masturbating.

Original publisher’s photo-illustrated laminated boards, dust jacket, black wrap around band.

Title-page with full-page drawing of a penis, inscribed by Araki in Japanese to noted sexologist Shimokawa Koushi:

‘Photography is pointing to an idea.’

Signed by Araki.

14 15 6. ARMAN (Armand, Fernandez)

Nice, France 1928 – New York, USA 2005 Painter, sculptor, printmaker

ARMAN ESTAMPES, Catalogue raisonné Text in French and English by Jane Otmezguine and Marc Moreau, with the collaboration of Corice Arman. Paris: Editions Marval, 1990.

First edition. Large Quarto (330 X 250 mm). Publisher’s boards with pictorial wrappers and printed acetate cover.

Half title with full page drawing in black ink of landscape formed of violin contours, with the necks of three violins standing like pylons, the sun overhead in the form of a clef. Inscribed above:

‘pour Valy R [?] de la part de Nadia’

signed below

‘Arman’.

16 17 7. BACON, Francis

Dublin, Ireland 1909 – Madrid, Spain 1992 Painter

Francis Bacon, Paintings of the Eighties New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1987

First edition. Quarto (300 x 250 mm), pp. 50, 14 colour plates. Publisher’s pictorial soft covers, with printed acetate jacket.

Exhibition catalogue, May 7th – July 31st 1987 at Marlborough Gallery, New York, with an interview conducted by David Sylvester.

Half title with a drawing in fibre pen representing a human figure in a schematic interior space.

Signed below:

‘Francis Bacon’.

18 19 8. BASELITZ, Georg

Kamenz, Germany 1938 Painter, printmaker, sculptor

Georg Baselitz: Retrospektive 1964 – 1991 Münich: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstifung/ Hirmer Verlag, 1992.

First edition. Quarto (275 x 230 mm), pp. 264. Numerous black & white and coloured illustrations, some fold out. Publisher’s photographic hard covers.

Exhibition catalogue with critical essays for a retrospective survey of Baselitz’ work in 1992, exhibited first at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstifung in Münich, then in Edinburg and Vienna.

Half title with full page drawing in pencil of two dogs lying with heads to the bottom of the page, with a circle (a ball?) between them with the letters FAERBER within. Inscribed at head of page:

‘30/ IV/ 1999 für Katherina und Thoma’

and signed below

‘G. Baselitz’.

20 21 9. BASKIN, Leonard

New Jersey, USA 1922 – Massachusetts, USA 2000 Printmaker, illustrator

The Iliad of Homer Translated by Richard Lattimore, drawings by Leonard Baskin Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Quarto (285 x 200 mm), pp. 526; 49 drawings by Leonard Baskin. Publisher’s red cloth, pictorial dust wrapper with some wears to top edge.

Front free endpaper with a finished drawing in black ink of a chick waving a wing. Above a calligraphic inscription reads:

‘Mr. and Mrs. R Lewin with the affectionate regards of Leonard Baskin 1963.’

22 23 10. BATEMAN, Henry Mayo

Sutton Forest, Australia 1887 – Gozo, Malta 1970 Artist, cartoonist

H.M. Bateman by Himself London: Collins, 1937.

First edition. Quarto (200 x 265 mm), pp. 132 text with numerous illustrations, 16 black and white plates.

Publisher’s original brown cloth with gilt stamped image. Some foxing to endpapers.

Front free endpaper with small drawing in ink of the author working at a desk. Inscribed:

‘With love to Bryda from Mayo

or, if preferred “With the author’s compliments”

H.M. Bateman. 1937’.

24 25 11. BEARD, Peter

New York, USA 1938 Photographer

Longing for Darkness: Kamante’s Tales from Out of Africa Gatura Kamante, compiled by Peter Beard, photographs by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), postface by Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

First edition. Quarto (310 x 210 mm) with 168 drawings and 160 photographs. Publisher’s black cloth boards, with photographic image of Karen Blixen. Pictorial dust wrappers.

The recollections of Karen Blixen’s former major-domo Kamante, related to Beard and written out by his son, with numerous illustrations, reproductions of Blixen’s photographs and Beard’s own photographic record of Kenya.

Front endpapers with 2-page image of a wrist and hand in green painting ink, with ‘Special Delivery’ written in red across the palm. Inscribed below:

‘To Nancy in San Francisco all BEST from the compiler, Peter (Beard) Dec, 25, 04’.

26 27 12. BEAUDIN, André

Mennecy, France 1895 – Paris, France 1979 Painter, sculptor, printmaker and illustrator

André Beaudin 1921 – 1961 Text in French by Georges Limbour. Paris: Editions Verve, 1961.

Small folio (225 x 300 mm). Publisher’s lithographed boards, 8 original lithographs, 12 reproductions in colour and 145 in black & white. A comprehensive survey of Beaudin’s work to 1961.

Front free endpaper and half title painted with 2-page semi-abstract biomorphic composition in watercolour.

Inscribed below:

‘Ce dimanche 7 juillet 1968 est un jour joyeux pour moi et sera joyeux, j’espère __ pour Monsieur Henri Rumeau __ A Beaudin.’

Long note from Beaudin probably to Mr. Henri Rumeau, laid down on front endpaper, signed ‘A Beaudin 30/6/68’, and decorated in pencil and coloured fibre pens.

28 29 13. BERARD, Christian

Paris, France 1902 – Paris, France 1949 Costume and stage designer, fashion illustrator

Sodome et Gomorrhe by Jean Giraudoux, Illustrated by Christian Bérard, [music by Arthur Honegger, lighting by Boris Kochno]. Paris: Grasset, 1943.

First edition. Quarto (250 x 200 mm), pp. 139. Bound in contemporary half white morocco, spine lettered in gilt with raised bands, top edge gilt. Publisher’s purple pictorial wrappers preserved.

A deeply pessimistic play by Giraudoux, which had a successful run in occupied Paris, starring Edwige Feuillère and Gérard Philipe. Bérard and his partner Boris Kochno, a specialist in theatrical lighting, formed a highly successful team, known now especially for their work on Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête.

With a half-page drawing on the half title of the ‘Premier Acte’, representing a stage set in coloured ink and wash. Inscribed below:

‘Au Docteur Vaillant souvenir de Sodome et Gomorrhe le 1er octobre Ch. Bérard.’

30 31 14. BEUYS, Joseph

Krefeld, Germany 1921 – Dusseldorf, Germany 1986 Performance artist, sculptor, printmaker

Joseph Beuys, Multiplizierte Kunst 1965-1981 Berlin: edited by Günter Ulbricht, Ausstellung in der Ständigen Vertretung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1981.

First edition. Quarto (210 x 270 mm), pp. 54. Publisher’s stapled soft covers with photographic image, from above, of Beuys in hat signing his name. Catalogue for a 1981 exhibition of Beuys’ Multiples.

Title page with pencil drawing of Beuys trademark Homburg Hat, inscribed below:

‘Joseph Beuys für Horst Janssen’.

Horst Janssen (1929 – 1995) was a German artist, draftsman, printmaker and illustrator.

32 33 15. BOTERO, Fernando

Medellin, Colombia 1932 Painter, sculptor

Botero aux Champs-Elysées, sculptures monumentales. by Charles Virmaître. Paris: Didier Imbert Fine Art, 1992.

First edition Quarto (250 x 225 mm). Publisher’s photographic soft cover.

Together with “Sculptures et Oeuvres sur papier”, text by Pierre Daix, and ‘La Corrida au Grand Palais”, text by Jean Cau, the three uniform volumes in publisher’s stiff card photographic box.

The three volumes form the catalogue to a vast exhibition of Botero’s work in Paris “De la Concorde au Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées”, October 1992 – January 1993.

Front free endpaper with a full page drawing in fibre pen of a woman’s face in profile, inscribed below:

‘A Bernard Pivot amicalement Botero 92’.

Bernard Pivot (1935) is a French journalist, interviewer and host of French cultural television programmes like “Apostrophes” and “Bouillon de culture”. He is also the chairman of the Académie Goncourt.

34 35 16. BRAQUE, Georges

Argenteuil, France 1882 – Paris, France 1963 Painter, printmaker

BRAQUE by Jean Paulhan and Georges Braque. Paris: Fernand Mourlot, 1945.

First edition. Folio (380 x 290 mm). N° 59 of 225 copies. Signed on limitation by Paulhan. One original lithograph signed by Braque and 19 colour plates. Loose as issued, in publisher’s lithographic soft covers, within slipcase. Inscribed on half title in black ink:

‘Pour Max Pellequer avec mes amitiés 1945 Georges Braque’.

The capital G of Georges in Braque’s bold calligraphic signature extends and turns into an artist’s palette with a bar of deep red above.

Max Pellequer was an art collector and a friend of Braque and Picasso.

36 37 17. BRAQUE, Georges

Argenteuil, France 1882 – Paris, France 1963 Painter, printmaker

Les Grands Peintres : Georges Braque Text in French by André Verdé, photographs by Roger Hauert. Genève: Editions René Kister, coll. Les Grands Peintres, 1956.

First edition. Quarto (270 x 180 mm), pp. 32. Publisher’s soft covers with photographic wrappers.

Photographic survey of Braque at work, in a series called “Les Grands Peintres”.

Endpaper with full page calligraphic inscription

‘Pour W. Halvorsen souvenir amical de Varengeville G. Braque 1956’.

The capital G of Georges extends to form a painter’s palette with brushes.

Walter Halvorsen (1887-1972) was a Norwegian art critic and dealer who was responsible for introducing the French Impressionists to Scandinavia. He had studied at the Académie Matisse in Paris in 1909-1910 and became acquainted there with young French artists. During the First World War he arranged auctions in Norway (which remained neutral in the war) of paintings by Matisse, Picasso, Bonnard, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne and others. His friendship with Braque lasted until the artist’s death in 1963; he subsequently arranged an exhibition of Braque’s works in Oslo and Bergen in 1964-65. cf. n° 18.

38 39 18. BRAQUE, Georges

Argenteuil, France 1882 – Paris, France 1963 Painter, printmaker

Invisible Visible by Pierre-André Benoît Alès: P. A. Benoît, 1960.

First edition. Octavo (190 x 235 mm), pp. 20. Number 11 of 30, initialled by the author below the limitation, illustrated with two cartalégraphies of the same subject, a blue butterfly, one on the cover and one as the frontispiece which is signed by Braque. Cartalégraphie was a printing technique invented by P. A. Benoît, who published seven other books by Braque using the same process: “un carton plan ou ondulé, souple ou plus rigide, est découpé, déchiré, incisé ou gratté par l’artiste, puis fixé par l’imprimeur sur un support à la hauteur typographique, finalement encré et tiré”. Publisher’s lithographic covers.

Half title with full page inscription in black ink, decorated in pink crayon:

‘Pour Walter Halrovsen avec mes amities G. Braque 1961.’

Walter Halvorsen (1887-1972) was a Norwegian art critic and dealer who was responsible for introducing the French Impressionists to Scandinavia. cf. n° 17.

40 41 19. BRAUNER, Victor

Piatra Neamt, Romania 1903 – Paris, France 1966 Painter and sculptor

Brauner by Alain Jouffroy Paris: Le Musée de Poche, 1959.

Fist edition. Octavo (140 x 185 mm), pp. 69, with 12 tipped-in colour plates and black & white illustrations. Some foxing to prelims. Publisher’s soft covers, photographic dust wrappers.

A survey of Brauner’s surrealist paintings up to 1959. Front free endpaper with a drawing in black ink of a stylised female nude with a horse extruding from her head. Inscribed above:

‘POUR PEGGY AVEC TOUTE L’AMITIEE DE VICTOR BRAUNER’

dated at foot of page:

‘6. I. 1960’

Additionally inscribed on half title:

‘Ce (BRAUNER) à Peggy Guggenheim qui le porte invisiblement dans sa couronne amicalement Alain Jouffroy’.

Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) played a highly important rôle in the artistic life of Europe and the United States, both as a collector and as a patron.

42 43 20. BUFFET, Bernard

Paris, France 1928 – Tourtour, France 1999 Painter, printmaker, illustrator

Recherche de la pureté by Jean Giono, with a preface by Pierre Bergé Paris: Creuzevault, 1953.

Folio (265 x 385 mm). Number 82 of an edition of 140, signed on the limitation by Giono and Buffet. 21 original etchings by Buffet, 3 double page with extra suite of plates, including 4 not used in the book.

Bound in white vellum, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, with on the front cover an original ink drawing by Buffet of a prison cell.

Front free endpaper with a full page drawing in black ink of flowers in a glass vase, standing on a table.

‘Pour E. Simon elles ont poussé sur la terrasse de Janine Bernard Buffet 23 mai 1953.’

The original ink drawing of a prison cell found on the cover is a slightly different version of the etching of the same subject that appears in the book.

44 45 21. BURNINGHAM, John

Surrey, England 1936 Illustrator, writer

John Burningham by John Burningham, preface by Maurice Sendak. London: Jonathan Cape, 2009.

First edition. Quarto (290 x 310 mm), pp. 223, numerous illustrations and photographs.

Publisher’s maroon cloth, pictorial dust wrappers.

Front free endpaper with full page drawing in pencil of a mouse, in tails, playing a grand piano. Signed above:

‘John Burningham 5/9/010’.

46 47 22. BURRI, René

Zürich, Switzerland 1933 - Zürich, 2014 Photographer and painter

René Burri, One World Fotografien und Collagen 1950-1983. Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1984.

First edition. Quarto (245 x 305 mm), pp. 211. Publisher’s black cloth, photographic dust wrappers.

A survey of the work in collage and photography by Magnum Photographer Burri.

Front endpaper with fully worked collage, using fragments of photographs and ephemera with black and coloured inks, inscribed in the composition:

‘René Burri One World für ERNST ein Freund zeit ehrwürdje herz lichst René Zürich 21 Janner 1994’.

48 49 23. CARLE, Eric

New York, USA 1929 Illustrator, writer

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Inscribed to the side in blue biro: Cleveland, Ohio: Collins, 1979. ‘For Sue Quarto (220 x 300 mm), unnumbered. with love Publisher’s pictorial boards, with a worn pictorial dust wrappers. Eric Carle’. Front free endpaper with half page drawing of an anthropomorphic caterpillar in green and red fibre pen and blue biro.

50 51 24. CARZOU, Jean

Aleppo, Syria 1901 – France, 2000. Painter, Illustrator.

Carzou by Pierre Lambertin, Paris: Julliard, 1961.

First edition. Octavo (200 x 140 mm), pp. 137. Illustrated with numerous line drawings. Publisher’s soft covers, pictorial dust wrappers.

Front free endpaper, half title and title page with drawings in various coloured biros, depicting biomorphic forms and female heads. Inscribed on front free endpaper, at head:

‘Genève, le 15/7/62’

and at foot

‘Pour Madame Motte, en sympathique hommage et en souvenir d’une heureuse collaboration avec mes amities CARZOU’

Marguerite Motte (1911-1993), founded and ran the gallery Motte in Geneva, where Carzou exhibited.

52 53 25. CHAGALL, Marc

Vitebsk, Russia 1887 – Saint-Paul de Vence, France 1985 Painter, illustrator, designer, printmaker

Chagall 1918-1939 Petite Encyclopédie de l’art by François Mathey Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1959.

First edition. Duodecimo (105 x 150 mm), pp. 10, text, 15 colour plates. Small monograph spanning the artists’ career as a painter. Publisher’s soft pictorial wrappers. Slight bumping at corners.

Half title with drawing in blue crayon of a goat browsing foliage, inscribed below:

‘Pour Pierre en bon souvenir Marc Chagall 1961’.

54 55 26. CHAGALL, Marc

Vitebsk, Russia 1887 – Saint-Paul de Vence, France 1985 Painter, illustrator, designer, printmaker

Le Dur Désir de Durer by Paul Eluard Paris: Arnold Bordas, 1946.

First edition. Large Quarto (290 x 390mm), pp {6} 11-59 {10}. Illustrated with 25 drawings and a couloured frontispiece. One of 330 copies on papier rives.

Original publishers printed paper wrappers, sheets unbound. In original publishers slipcase.

Front free endpaper with full page composition in ink and gouache representing a young man and woman staring in wonder at a bouquet of flowers in a vase on the table.

Signed bottom right

‘Marc Chagall’.

56 57 27. COMBAS, Robert

Lyon, France 1957 Painter, sculptor, musician

Chemin de Croix By Robert Combas and Ladislas Kijmo, Paris: Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, 2007.

First edition. Folio (360 x 240 mm), pp. 54. 14 full page colour reproductions of the stations of the cross. Original pictorial soft covers.

Half title with full page drawing in red, white and black markers pens, a human figure with forehead and nose forming a cross, holding male and female sex, both written over with the word “censurée”. Inscribed at head of page:

‘Pour Philippe’

and signed at foot.

‘Combas’

58 59 28. CONSTABLE, John

East Bergholt, England 1776 - Hampstead, England 1837 Painter

Songs Divine and Moral, Attempted in Easy Language by Isaac Watts London: Charles Tilt, 1832.

Small Octavo (105 x 170 mm), pp. 96, with five woodcuts by J. Thompson after Stothard.

Publishers blind stamped brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, gilt image of celestial harp stamped on front and rear covers, all edges gilt.

The entire book was refashioned by Constable as a gift for his God-daughter Harriet Jane Leslie, whose father was the close friend and eventual biographer of Constable.

He added colour and aerial perspective to the woodcuts, painted cloudscapes and atmospheric effects around the titles of different sections and on the last page and painted three watercolour vignettes to illustrate poems, the eye of God for ‘The All-Seeing God’, a bird in its nest for ‘Love between Brothers and Sisters’, and a bee on a rose for ‘Against Idlness and Mischief’.

Inscribed on the front free endpaper:

‘To Harriet Jane Leslie from her affectionate God father John Constable sept 13rd 1833.

What bless’d examples do I find Earlier in 1833, Constable had transformed another copy of the same book, now in the V&A Writ in the word of truth Museum, for his daughter Emily on her 8th birthday. In this case, his interventions were on a smaller Of children that begin to mind scale, with a single drawing on the half-title in addition to the colouring in of a woodcut.

Religion in their youth.’ The front and rear endpapers bear a number of bookplates and hand-written notes by the descendants of the orgininal recipient.

60 61 62 63 29. CUTRONE, Ronnie

New York, USA 1948 – New York, USA 2013 Painter, performance artist, nightclub impresario

Shelf Life by Ronnie Cutrone, Nora Brougher, Van Nuys, CA: Martin Lawrence Editions, 1990.

First edition. Quarto (265 x 230 mm), pp. 46. Illustrations in text and 44 colour reproductions. Publisher’s pictorial soft covers.

Catalogue of an exhibition at Martin Lawrence Modern, Soho 1990.

Front free endpaper with drawing in marker pen of a cartoon animal, inscribed above:

‘For Frank’

Signed at foot of page:

‘Ronnie Cutrone 1990’.

64 65 30. DEBRÉ, Olivier

Paris, France 1920 – Paris, France 1999 Painter

Debré – dessins 1945-60 by Bernard Noel Paris: Adam Biro, 1990.

Quarto (250 x 230 mm), pp. 95. Publisher’s black cloth, photographic dust wrapper.

Catalogue for an exhibition Feb-March 1990 at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Saint-Denis.

Drawing in pencil on front free endpaper of a ‘signe personnage’, the recurrent theme of the exhibition. Inscribed on half title:

‘A Jean Bernard, A l’ami A l’écrivain Les signes peints En signe d’affection OD’.

Pr. Jean Bernard (1907-2006) was a leading French haematologist, writer and poet, who was elected to the Académie Française in 1975. His ‘épée d’académicien’ was designed by Olivier Debré.

66 67 31. DELAUNAY, Robert

Paris, France 1885 – Montpellier, France 1941 Painter, printmaker

Allo! Paris! by Joseph Delteil. Paris: Edition des Quatre mains, 1926.

First edition. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), pp. 114, with 20 lithographs by Robert Delaunay. Original publisher’s printed wrappers.

Front free endpaper with an ink drawing of the Eiffel Tower, enriched by an inscription:

‘Florent Fels Amicalement’

A plume of lights and stars emits from the tower, loops around the page and finally forms the inscription in dots:

‘Robert Delaunay Elysée 10-88’.

Additionally inscribed mid page by the author:

‘Pour Florent Fels Ce livre D’un amateur De trapeze Je songe aux Poilus Delteil’.

Florent Fels (1891-1977) was the founder of the short lived radical periodical Action, and a highly influential art critic.

68 69 32. DIGNIMONT, André

Paris, France 1891 – Paris, France 1965 Artist, illustrator, printmaker

Sous le Signe de Paris Liste des Grands Vins 1949 Paris: Drager Frères, 1948.

Quarto (185 x 240 mm), pp. 36, illustrated with five full-page colour plates and seven black & white illustrations in the text. Bound in original publisher’s wrappers, spiral spine.

Trade catalogue by the wine merchants Nicolas for the year 1949.

Full-page water-colour drawing of a scene in a Montmartre street, with a woman standing in front of cabaret Le Lapin Agile, titled:

‘Montmartre Le vieux Lapin Agile’

Inscribed below:

‘à Madame Rivemale hommage amical de Dignimont 26-7-58’.

70 71 33. DOISNEAU, Robert

Gentilly, France 1922 – Montrouge, France 1994 Photographer

Gosses de Paris by Jean Donguès with photographs by Robert Doisneau. Paris: Jeheber, 1956.

First edition. Quarto (215 x 270 mm), pp. 111. Publisher’s lettered soft covers, with photographic dust wrapper and acetate overlay, some wear to acetate. Poems and photographs on the theme of Parisian children.

Half title with a drawing of a camera on a stand, the shutter release being the tail of the capital R of Doisneau’s signature.

Additionnally inscribed at the head of the page

‘A Monsieur François Raynal Très respectueux hommage d’un jeune auteur Donguès’.

72 73 34. DOISNEAU, Robert

Gentilly, France 1922 – Montrouge, France 1994 Photographer

Les doigts plein d’encre by Robert Doisneau and François Cavanna, Paris: Hoebeke, 1989.

First edition. Quarto (240 x 320), pp. 89. Publisher’s black boards, photographic dust wrapper.

Photographic essay on childhood, a collaboration between Doisneau and satirist François Cavanna (1923-2014).

Half title with full page image of a hand, inscribed across the palm:

‘Pour Marie-Odile la ligne de Coeur de Robert Doisneau’,

and dated below

‘juin 1991’.

74 75 35. DUBUFFET, Jean

Le Havre, France 1901 - Paris, France 1985 Painter and sculptor

Invitation to the «vernissage» of the exhibition ‘Paris Circus” at the Galerie David Cordier, Paris on the 7th June 1962.

Pictorial folded card (240 x 300mm unfolded), with a reproduction of a Dubuffet figure in black and grey, lettered Galerie Daniel Cordier, Dubuffet, Paris Circus, à partir du 7 juin.

The front cover of the card with ‘ Vernissage à 18 heures’, and bearing drawings in pencil and gouache of circus figures, signed:

‘Dubuffet 7 juin.’

76 77 36. DUFY, Raoul

Le Havre, France 1877 – Forcalquier, France 1953 Painter, illustrator, printmaker, textile designer

La Terre Frottée d’Ail Text in French by Gustave Coquiot Paris: André Delpeuch, 1925.

First edition. Quarto (195 X 260 mm), pp. 264. N˚46 of 100 on velin d’arches, with 107 drawings by Raoul Dufy.

Original publisher’s printed wrappers, slight wear to edges.

Front flyleaf with a sketch of a landscape, the sun rising over buildings, fields and winding river, signed within the image

‘Raoul Dufy’.

Additionally inscribed

‘Paris 1926 A mon cher ami Picasso Toute ma passion pour ton immense et incroyable talent Gustave Coquiot’.

Gustave Coquiot was a French art critic and writer. He was the subject of one of Picasso’s early portrait masterpieces, painted in 1901.

78 79 37. ELIASSON, Olafur

Copenhagen, Danemark 1967 Conceptual artist, sculptor

Your Lighthouse, works with light 1991-2004 Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Holger Broeker, 2004.

Quarto (245 x 300 mm), pp. 192. Numerous black & white and colour illustrations. Publisher’s rainbow coloured boards.

Catalogue for an exhibition of Eliasson’s work at the Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, in May- September 2004.

Half title with full page drawing in blue pen of a sunrise over a northern landscape. Inscribed above:

‘Til Blomqvist Olafur Eliasson Feb 2005.’

80 81 38. ERNST, Max

Brühl, Germany 1891 – Paris, France 1976 Painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer

La Femme 100 Têtes by Max Ernst, preface by André Breton Paris: Editions de l’Oeil, 1956.

New edition. Quarto (250 x 200 mm), pp. 12 text, 14 captioned illustrations for Ernst’s surrealist collage novel. Bound in later oatmeal cloth, publisher’s wrappers with original lithograph preserved.

Half title with full page drawing in black ink of a female figure with no head (a pun on the title). Inscribed at foot of page ‘A Marie Cuttoli son ami Max Ernst’

Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973) was a textile entrepreneur and patron, and a close friend of Picasso (cf. n° 78, 93).

82 83 39. GARCÍA LORCA, Federico

Granada, Spain 1898 – Granada, Spain 1936 Poet, playwright, artist

Romancero Gitano (1924 – 1927) Buenos Aires: SUR, 1933.

Octavo (160 x 241 mm), pp. 147. First deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, this copy “C”, printed for Amado Alonso, being one of the 10 “hors de commerce”. Contemporary half calf, initials of the owner “A.A” at the bottom of the spine.

Limitation page inscribed:

‘con la admiracion profunda y el cariño de Federico Buenos Aires, 1934’. (The B and A of Buenos Aires forming parts of an arrow.)

Followed by a full-page drawing in ink of a Pierrot like head emerging from a compass, signed and dated:

‘Federico Garcia Lorca, 1934.’

A contemporary of Lorca, Neruda, and Borges, Alonso was a leading intellectual in Buenos Aires in the 1930s and 1940s. A Spanish expatriate in Buenos Aires, he published many essays on the Spanish language.

84 85 40. GRAU-SALA, Emilio

Barcelona, Spain 1911 – Paris, France 1975 Painter

Segovia by Bernard Gavoty, Portraits by Roger Hauert. Geneva: René Kister, nd [1959].

First edition. Quarto (180 x 220 mm), pp. 32, numerous photographs.

Publisher’s soft photographic covers, some wear to edges. Front free endpaper with half page image in watercolour of a young girl playing a guitar, signed below:

‘Grau Sala’.

Additionally inscribed by the author and photographer.

86 87 41. GROSZ, George

Berlin, Deutschland 1893 - Berlin, Deutschland 1959 Painter, illustrator, printmaker

Uber Alles die Liebe Berlin: B Cassirer, 1930.

First edition. Quarto (210 x 250 mm), pp. 120, 60 sketches by Grosz. Publisher’s red boards, stamped in black. Front free endpaper with full page cloud like image in purple wash, calligraphic inscription within:

‘To Mark Sandler in friendship Georges Grosz Huntington Dec 7 * 1952’.

By the date of the inscription, Grosz was living and teaching in the United States. In these benign conditions, his art mellowed, and he abandonned the ferocious social satire that had caracterized his earlier work.

Marc Sandler (1907 -1968) was an art collector and friend of Grosz in his American years.

88 89 42. HAMBOURG, André

Paris, France 1909 - Paris, France 1999 Inscribed to the side Painter, illustrator ‘Pour Nina, ces pages où elle retrouvera Hambourg beaucoup de peintures Text in French by Michel Droit Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1970. qu’elle a vu naître First edition. avec Octavo (160 x 185 mm), pp. 26 text, 230 black and white and colour illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial soft covers, fine condition. mon affection, a. hambourg Front free endpaper and half title with 2 page composition in ink and wash, depicting a busy coastal 1970’. scene, with a pier and yachts.

90 91 43. HARING, Keith

Reading, Pensylvania USA 1958 – New York, USA 1990 Painter, graphic artist

Keith Haring Naples: Lucio AMelo, 1983.

First edition, limited to 300 copies. Folio (340 x 480 mm), unpaginated.

Title page image of a crouching figure coloured in silver pen, inscribed above in silver:

‘For Fred’

and signed below:

‘K. Haring + 83’.

92 93 44. HARTUNG, Hans

Leipzig, Germany 1904 – Antibes, France 1989 Painter, printmaker, illustrator

Hans Hartung, grands formats 1971 – 1984 by Pierre Daix Paris: Association pour la Promotion des Arts, 1985.

First edition. Quarto (220 x 280 mm), pp. 56, 4 studio photographs in black & white, 33 reproductions in colour. Publisher’s pictorial soft covers, slight wear to spine.

Title page with full page bold abstract composition in blue, yellow and black crayon. Signed below

‘H.H. 85’

Front endpaper inscribed by Hartung to Werner Schmalenbach (1920 – 2010), a German art critic, writer and museum director who wrote monographs on Leger, Schwitters and Tàpies (cf. n° 94, 95).

94 95 45. HERGÉ (Georges Remi)

Etterbeek, Belgium 1907 – Woluwe-Saint Lambert, Belgium 1983 Illustrator, cartoonist

Les Aventures de Tintin L’Affaire Tournesol Tournai: Caterman Paris, 1958.

Quarto (225 x 300 mm), pp. 62. Original publisher’s pictorial boards, red spine. Some wear to edges, corners slightly bumped.

On verso of title-page, blue ink drawing of Professeur Tournesol (Professor Calculus), inscribed on the right:

‘A Mireille, Le Professeur Tournesol adresse à tes parents et à toi toutes les félicitations Hergé’.

96 97 46. HERGÉ (Georges Remi)

Etterbeek, Belgium 1907 – Woluwe-Saint Lambert, Belgium 1983 Illustrator, cartoonist

Archives Hergé Tournai: Casterman, 1973.

First edition. Small folio (225 x 300 mm), pp. 417. Original publisher’s orange cloth, illustrated dust wrappers, slight wear to edges. Half-title with a drawing of Tintin and Snowy (Milou) in black fibre pen, inscribed:

‘A Per Carlsen, en souvenir du temps lointain où Tintin n’était pas encore son fils adoptif… En cordial hommage. Hergé. 9.11.1973’.

Per Carlsen was the founder of Carlsen Comics, the Danish publisher of Tintin in Scandinavia.

98 99 47. HIRST, Damien

Bristol, England 1965 Painter, sculptor

Damien Hirst, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Selected works from 1989 ‑ 2004 Museo Archeologico Nazionale / Electa Napoli by Eduardo Cicelyn, Mario Codognato, and Mirta d’Argenzio. Paris: Association pour la Promotion des Arts, 2004.

First edition. Quarto (240 x 250 mm), pp. 264. Publisher’s pictorial soft covers, fine condition.

Catalogue for a huge retrospective exhibition of Hirst’s work at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples.

Half title with skull and crossbones in black fibre pen, inscribed at head of page:

‘Jan Damien Hirst’.

100 101 48. HOCKNEY, David

Bradford, England, 1937 Painter, printmaker, stage designer, photographer

David Hockney, A Retrospective Organized by Maurice Tuchman and Stephanie Barron, Los Angeles: LA Museum of Art, and London: Thames and Hudson, 1988.

First edition. Quarto (270 x 290 mm), pp. 312, 343 illustrations, 235 in colour, 3 fold out.

Publisher’s dark green cloth, with pictorial dust wrapper.

A full scale retrospective of Hockneys’ work, published to coincide with exhibition by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1988.

Front free endpaper and title page with large drawing in fine black and red fibre pen, representing a schematic room space, with an artist easel incorporating half title text, inscribed within:

‘for Kevin David H.’

Inscribed on facing page:

‘Los Angeles March 18th 1992’.

The book was inscribed to Irish photographer Kevin Abosh (1969), in the course of a photo shoot at Hockney’s house in Los Angeles.

102 103 49. HOCKNEY, David

Bradford, England, 1937 Painter, printmaker, stage designer, photographer

Hockney’s Alphabet Drawings by David Hockney with written contributions, Edited by Stephen Spender London: Faber and Faber, 1991.

First edition. Folio (255 x 330 mm), 26 full page colour images of the alphabet by Hockney, with poetic or prose by British and American writers accompanying each. Publisher’s dark green boards, pictorial dust wrapper.

Half title, with full page drawing in black ink of a wrist and hand, holding a label on a stick incorporating words of half title. Inscribed within the label:

‘for Paul, love David H’.

104 105 50. HOFFNUNG, Gerard

Berlin, Germany 1925 – London, UK 1959 Cartoonist, musician, writer, raconteur

Hoffnung’s Musical Chairs By Gerard Hoffnung London: Dobson Putnam, 1958.

First edition. Octavo (120 x 180 mm). Publisher’s pictorial boards, with pictorial dust wrapper. Fine condition.

Endpapers with 2 page drawing in blue ink representing an angel flying, training clouds of pipe smoke. Inscribed:

‘for Stanford Robinson with admiration from Gerard Hoffnung.’

Stanford Robinson (1904-1984) was an English conductor and composer.

106 107 51. KOKOSCHKA, Oskar

Pöchlarn, Austria-Hungary 1886 – Montreux, Switzerland 1980 Painter, poet, playwright

Mein Leben by Oskar Kokoschka Münich: Bruckmann München, 1969.

First edition. Octavo (150 X 220 mm), pp. 339, illustrated with photographs, sketches and 4 colour plates. Publisher’s photographic dust wrapper over yellow cloth, slight wear to dust wrapper edges.

Front free endpaper with full page drawing of a night scene, with an owl in a tree and a figure watching. Inscribed within:

‘Herr und Frau Professor Andor Foldes Herzlichen Dank für Haydn und Schubert und ein Gesegnetes neues Jahr 1972 Wünschen Ihnen Olda und O Kokoschka’.

108 109 52. KOONS, Jeff

York (PA), USA 1955 Painter, sculptor

Jeff Koons, by Annette Hüsch and Gudrun Inboden Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler and Holzwarth Publications, 2009.

First edition. Publisher’s turquoise cloth, photographic dust wrapper.

Catalogue in German and in English, with colour plates, for an exhibition at the Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, from October to December 2008.

Front free endpaper and half title with 2 page drawing in black fibre pen, representing plants, flowers and cloud forms. Signed below:

‘JK 3/11/10’.

110 111 53. LABOUREUR, Jean-Emile

Nantes, France 1877 – Kerfalher, Morbihan, France 1943 Painter, printmaker, illustrator

Dans les Flandres Britanniques dessins de J.E. Laboureur, textes de X. M. Boulestin Paris: Dorbon Ainé, nd (1916).

First edition. Folio (250 x 390 mm), number 25 of a limited edition of 50 on “papier Hollande”, with 24 printed plates in colour with the text, and an extra suite of plates in black and white. Unpaginated.

Publisher’s pictorial soft covers, some wear to edges.

Front free endpaper with drawing of a French officer seated at a desk reading a paper, on the desk lies a scroll that reads:

‘quant aux dessins ils sont insuffisants pour suppléer aux la- cunes du texte’;

signed below:

‘à Edmond Syvester J. Laboureur’

Additionally inscribed at head of page

‘à Edmond Syvester - Quoi, vous avez donc vu l’Allemagne et la guerre? - Je m’y suis fait, quatre ans, craindre comme un tonnerre. P. Corneille (X.M.Boulestin)’.

112 113 54. LALANNE, François-Xavier

Agen, France 1927- Ury, France 2008 Sculptor

Les Lalanne, exposition 11.8 – 16.9.1984 Preface by Daniel Abadie Knokke-Heist: Christian Fayt Art Gallery, 1984.

Exhibition catalogue. Quarto (215 x 225 mm).

Publisher’s pictorial laminated boards. 32 colour plates, unpaginated.

Title page half page ink drawing of a wild boar’s head, inscribed:

‘Pour Laurent, souvenir du Zoute amicalement FX Lalanne, Août 84’.

114 115 55. LAM, Wifredo

Cuba 1902 – Paris 1982 Painter, printmaker

Wifredo Lam by Lucien Curzi Bologna: Edizion Bora, 1974.

First edition. Quarto (210 x 290 mm), pp. 50; 63 black & white and colour illustrations.

Publisher’s pictorial card, slight wear to the edges.

Title page with 2 drawings in green ink, a group of three creatures, signed below W LAM; under this a half length female figure holds a knife and fork. Inscribed at head of page:

‘POUR WOGAN AND TAMARA Ave tou ma simpatie Wilfredo LAM Pari 24 – 12 – 1981’.

Wogan Philipps was an English aristocrat and political activist who, upon inheriting a peerage, became the only member of the Communist Party ever to sit in the House of Lords.

116 117 56. LAM, Wifredo

Cuba 1902 – Paris 1982 Painter, printmaker

Wifredo Lam Dessins Preface by Philippe Soupault Paris: Editions Galilée – Dutrou, 1975.

First edition. Folio (350 x 280 mm), pp. 7 unnumbered preface; approx. 150 colour plates; pp. 10 biography, bibliography, justification.

Bound in light brown cloth, with artist’s stamped signature, original publisher’s pictorial dust wrapper.

First page of preface with half-page drawing in blue ink, bird-like and anthropomorphic forms incorporating inscription:

‘Pour J. Bazaine amitiés Wifredo Lam 25/2/1976’.

Jean Bazaine (1904-2001) was a French painter who turned later in his career to the design of stained glass windows and mosaics (cf. n° 104).

118 119 57. LAURENCIN, Marie

Paris, France 1883 – Paris, France 1956 Painter, illustrator

Marie Laurencin Trente-deux reproductions en héliogravure by George-Day Paris: Editions du Dauphin, 1947.

First edition. Quarto (230 X 285 mm), (IX) pp. 54, 32 full page heliogravures reproductions. Pages uncut. Publisher’s original printed wrappers.

Half title with half page head and shoulders portrait of a young woman, black ink and red and blue crayon, inscribed below:

‘Marie Laurencin Avril 1948’.

Head of page inscribed:

‘A Madame Colette Hommage de sa fidèle admiratrice George Day’.

George-Day is the pen name of Yvonne Debauvais (1893 – 1971), French writer and poet. The introduction contains a fulsome tribute to Colette and Laurencin as expressing in their work an ‘esthétique entièrement féminine’.

120 121 58. LEGER, Fernand

Argentan, France 1881 – Gif sur Yvette, France 1955 Painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer

Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace by Douglas Cooper Traduction de l’anglais par François Lachenal Genève: Editions des Trois Collines, 1949.

First edition. Quarto (190 x 240 mm), pp. 196, 8 colour plates tipped in, black and white illustrations and photographs throughout.

Publisher’s pictorial card covers.

Half title full page drawing of a steam train and 2 carriages, the smoke from funnel looping around title. Inscribed within:

‘A Anatole Jakowsky Amicalement F Leger’.

Anatole Jakovsky (1909 –1988) was a French art critic and collector who established the International Museum of Naïve Art in Nice, France.

122 123 59. LEGER, Fernand

Argentan, France 1881 – Gif sur Yvette, France 1955 Painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer

Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace by Douglas Cooper Traduction de l’anglais par François Lachenal Genève: Editions des Trois Collines, 1949.

First edition. Quarto (190 x 240 mm), pp. 196 , 8 colour plates tipped in, black and white illustrations and photographs throughout.

Publisher’s pictorial card covers.

Title page with inscription:

‘A Virginia F Leger’.

The ‘r’ of Léger prolonged in a continuous loop around the printed title, forming a human head.

124 125 60. LEVINE, David

New York, USA 1926 - New York, USA 2009 Caricaturist, illustrator

Pens and Needles Literary caricatures by David Levine Introduced and selected by John Updike Boston: Gambit, 1969.

First edition. Quarto (185 x 255 mm), viii, pp. 150, black and white caricatures of the literary world in America and Europe.

Publisher’s grey and black boards, with Levine’s signature stamped. Pictorial dust wrapper, slight wear.

Front free endpaper with drawing in black ink of an anthropomorphic pen (self-portait?). Inscribed above:

‘To Albert Newgarden’

and signed below

‘David Levine’.

126 127 61. LIPCHITZ, Jacques

Druskininkai, Lithuania 1891 – Capri, Italy 1973 Sculptor, draftsman

Jacques Lipchitz His sculpture by A. M. Hammacher With an introductory statement by Jacques Lipchitz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1960.

First edition. Quarto (235 x 305 mm), pp. 176, texts and photographs, 100 black and white reproductions. Publisher’s red cloth stamped in black. Photographic dust wrapper, slight wear to edges.

Full scale survey of Lipchitz’ sculpture to 1960.

Front free endpaper with full page composition in ink and wash, representing a phoenix like bird, signed below ‘Lipchitz’.

Half title with full page composition in black ink of a biomorphic form, inscribed to the side

‘To Sylvia and Leonard Lyons with Best wishes Lipchitz’.

Leonard Lyons (1906-1976) was an American journalist, whose column, syndicated nationally, covered politics, theatre and the arts.

128 129 62. MARINI, Marino

Pistoia, Italy 1901 – Viareggio, Italy 1980 Painter, sculptor

Marino Marini, Pitture e disegni by Franco Russoli Milan: Toninelli editore, 1963.

First edition. Quarto (240 x 290 mm), pp. 195. Profusely illustrated with photographs of Marini at work, colour and black and white reproductions. Publisher’s grey boards.

Original dust wrapper and acetate, worn at edges.

Front free endpaper and half title with 2 page image of a stylised horse in black ink, inscribed above:

‘A Soavi’ ‘Marino’ ‘1963’.

Giorgio Soavi (1923-2008) was a poet, novelist, art collector and art critic (cf. n° 70).

130 131 63. MASSON, André

Balagny sur Thérain, France (Oise) 1896 – Paris, France 1987 Painter, printmaker, illustrator

Ximenès Malinjoude by Marcel Jouhandeau Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon and D.H. Kanhweiler, 1927.

First edition. Duodecimo (174 x 132 mm), pp. 40, unnumbered. N° 48 of an edition of 100, signed by author and illustrator on colophon. Frontispiece and 5 etchings by Masson.

Original publisher’s wrappers.

Front endpaper with anthropomorphic drawing in brown ink, inscribed above and below:

‘À Georges Hugnet Son ami André Masson’.

Georges Hugnet (1906-1974) was a poet, critic and art historian, a leading figure in the Dada and Surrealist movement.

132 133 64. MASSON, André

Balagny sur Thérain, France (Oise) 1896 – Paris, France 1987 Painter, printmaker, illustrator

Mythologies by André Masson Paris: Editions de la Revue Fontaine, 1946. Collection l’Age d’Or dirigée par Henri Parisot

First edition. Quarto (245 x 320 mm), N° 29 of an edition of 250 on “vergé d’Ingres’, pp. 95. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

Front free endpaper, full page drawing in soft pencil of a female nude. Inscribed on half title with large pictorial signature:

‘André Masson’.

134 135 65. MATHIEU, Georges

Boulogne sur Mer, France 1929 – Boulogne Billancourt, France 2012 Painter

Mathieu by Dominique Quignon-Fleuret Paris: Flammarion, 1973.

First edition. Quarto (220 x 285 mm), pp. 96, 66 colour illustrations and 14 black and white reproductions. Publisher’s white cloth, stamped in red. Pictorial dust wrapper.

Front free endpaper with full page abstract composition in red and purple fibre pens. Inscribed below:

‘Pour Yves Bonnefoy avec l’admiration de Mathieu’

Additionnaly inscribed at foot of title page:

‘Pour Yves Bonnefoy Hommage de l’auteur Quignon-Fleuret’.

Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) was a noted French poet and art historian.

136 137 66. MATISSE, Henri

Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France 1869 – Nice, France 1954 Painter, sculptor, printmaker

Verve, Revue artistique et littéraire, vol. VI, Nos 21 et 22 Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, 1948.

Folio (265 x 355 mm), pp. 68, one colour lithograph, colour reproductions and drawings. Publisher’s boards in lithographic wrappers designed by Matisse, some wear to spine. Housed in modern black cloth box.

Two numbers of Verve devoted to Matisse’s painting carried out in Vence in the period 1944- 48, together with numerous drawings in black ink of fruit, plants and flowers. The lithographed wrappers use the cut out stencil technique that was increasingly Matisse’s preferred method in his later years.

Half title with large black ink portrait of a woman in half profile, inscribed below

‘hommage à Florence Gould la bonne fée H. Matisse Déc. 1948’

A sensitive and sympathetic portrait of Florence Gould (1895-1983), an American patron of the arts, who, for several decades, held literary and artistic salons in her houses in Paris and Juan-les- Pins, using her husband’s fortune to finance numerous artistic projects.

Florence Gould visited Matisse’s studio in Vence on two dates in December 1948, and it was no doubt on one of these occasions that he drew her portrait.

138 139 67. MEHEUT, Mathurin The following two leaves with full page ink and wash images of sea horses, squid, fish, prawns and a hermit crab. Inscribed on the first leaf: Lamballe, France 1882 – Paris, France 1958 Painter, illustrator ‘Au grand peintre de la forêt normande..’

and on the second page: Regarde… Par Colette et Méheut ‘Hommage Paris: J. G. Deschamps, 1929. d’un peintre de la mer bretonne First edition. Mathurin Méheut’. Folio (286 x 380 mm), unpaginated. 18 pochoir plates. Number 216 of edition of 700. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Edouard Marie Herriot (1872-1957) was an prominent French politicien, writer and noted bibliophile. Four leaves loose at front, the first with ink and gouache image of a fish with rocks. Inscribed above:

‘à Edouard Herriot de tout mon Coeur Colette’

And below:

“Regarde” , cher Edouard! Tu as de si beaux yeux. C’est le privilège d’une vieille amitié que de pouvoir te le dire devant tout le monde! C .’

140 141 68. MIRÓ, Joan

Barcelone, Spain 1893- Palma Majorque, Spain 1983 Painter, sculptor and ceramist

Papeles de son Armadans, Ano II. Tome VII, Num. XXI. Madrid and Palma de Mallorca, 1957.

Quarto (155 x 222mm). pp.400. One of 50 copies, this number 49. Original pictorial paper wrappers bound by Leroux in fawn morocco, spine lettered in colours with matching slipcase.

This issue of the review ‘Papeles de son Armadon’ edited by Camilo José Cela is devoted entirely to the work of Joan Miró.

Title-page with abstract composition in coloured crayons by Miró, justification page with large Miró signature in red ink and an abstract form in black, inscribed between:

‘para José Manuel Caballero Bonald afectuosamente’.

Bound in at the rear of the volume are two autograph pages from an article in the review by Camilo José Cela, and four autograph leaves of a poem to Joan Miró by Vicente Aleixandre.

142 143 69. MIRÓ, Joan

Barcelone, Spain 1893- Palma Majorque, Spain 1983 Painter, sculptor and ceramist

La Cueva Del Siurell by José Manuel Caballero Bonald Madrid and Palma de Mallorca

Octavo (140 by 190 mm). Title page, pp.4. Original paper wrappers, bound by Leroux in fawn morocco, spine lettered in different colours, full morocco doublures.

N° 1 of 50 copies of this offprint from the review, Papeles de son Armadon Number XXI.

Title page with original abstract design in yellow, green, red and blue gouache by Miró.

Last page with half page composition in ink and gouache, inscribed below:

‘para José Manuel Caballero Bonald, afectuosamente Miró I / 58.’

144 145 70. MISSONI, Rosita

Fashion and textile designer

Missonologia Il Mondo dei Missoni by Isa Tutino Vercelloni Milan: Electa, 1989.

First edition. Quarto (240 x 320 mm), pp. 164, illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs. Publisher’s stiff card covers, with textile pattern.

Produced to accompany an exhibition in the Galleria de Costume, Palazzo Pitti, 1989, to celebrate 40 years of fashion house Missoni.

Front free endpaper with whole page pattern of zigzags in marker pens of various colours, inscribed below:

‘Caro Giorgio Quarantanni di vita a Zig - zag… Con affetto tua Rosita’.

The book is inscribed to Giorgio Soavi (1923-2008), a poet, novelist, art collector and art critic (cf. n° 62).

146 147 71. MOORE, Henry

Castleford, England 1898 – Hertfordshire, England 1986. Sculptor, painter

Henry Moore Sculpture and drawings With an introduction by Herbert Read London: Lund Humphries & Company Ltd., 1949.

Revised, enlarged edition. Quarto (255 x 300 mm), xxx, pp. 259, more than 450 plates. Publisher’s brown cloth, stamped with the artist’s name.

Comprehensive survey of Moore’s work up to 1949. Title page with a drawing in black ink of a recumbent draped female figure. Inscribed below:

‘To Peter [Juny?] Henry Moore 1949’.

148 149 72. NICHOLSON, William

Newark on Trent, England 1872 – Berkshire, England 1949 Painter, printmaker, illustrator

The Book of Blokes By William Nicholson NP (London): Faber & Faber, nd (1929).

First edition. Octavo (130 x 190 mm), pp. 60; 29 caricatures in chalk of male heads, in various colours, no text.

Publisher’s pictorial boards, some wear to spine.

Front endpaper with full page drawing of a sunrise in coloured crayon. Inscribed over sun:

‘New Year’ and below ‘1930’

Inscribed in sky:

‘For Helen Lubbock From William Nicholson’.

150 151 73. OLDENBURG, Claes

Stockholm, Sweden 1929 Sculptor, performance artist

Il Corso del Coltello The Course of the Knife Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Franck O. Gehry Milan: Comune di Venezia, GFT, Nuove edizioni G Mazzotta, 1985.

First edition. Booklet of irregular cut out form (approx. 160 x 265 mm). 12 unnumbered leaves, one acetate overlay for plan of Campo Arsenale, Venice.

Bound in original pictorial card covers, the front printed ‘Il Corso del Coltello’ and ‘Menu’, with image of knife in red and green, loose brown tape through hole in handle, representing a lanyard. This ‘menu’ was handed to the members of the audience at three performances of ‘Il Corso del Coltello’ in September 1985. It is set out as a series of courses, with illustrations by Oldenburg, and gives the cast list and credits for the theatrical event.

Last leaf with full page drawing in blue ink representing a penknife with two blades and a corkscrew, diving from a scaffold tower into the lagoon. Inscribed below:

‘Knife taking a dive. For Paolo w. thanks CO Venice 1985’.

Some 20 or 50 of the actors and stage managers have inscribed messages to ‘Paulo’ on the menu. With a quantity of ephemera from the original performances, and the publication of the catalogue The Course of the Knife, by Germano Celant, C. Oldenburg, C. Van Bruggen, F. O. Gehry (Milan: Electa, 1986.), giving the history of the original event and its artistic aftermath.

152 153 74. ORPEN, Sir William

Dublin, Ireland 1878 – London, England 1931 Painter

An Onlooker in France, 1917 – 1919 Sir William Orpen, KBE, RA London: Williams and Norgate, 1921.

First edition. Quarto (200 x 250 mm), pp. 120 text, xcvi black & white plates. Publisher’s green cloth, some fading on spine.

Front endpaper with fully worked self-portrait in ink, with battlefield in the background, inscribed:

‘yours very sincerely William Orpen London April 1921.’

Reverse of frontispiece with portrait of a man’s head in profile, inscribed below:

‘RBM by William Orpen’.

154 155 75. ORPEN, Sir William

Dublin, Ireland 1878 – London, England 1931 Painter

An Onlooker in France, 1917 – 1919 Sir William Orpen, KBE, RA London: Williams and Norgate, 1924.

Revised and enlarged edition. Quarto (200 x 250 mm), pp. 120 text, xcvi black & white plates. Publisher’s brown cloth, worn and bumped.

Front free endpaper with a full page composition in black ink and wash : a self portrait of the author seated writing, whiskey and cigarettes on the table beside him. Inscribed below:

‘How this book was written to Lansburgh with admiration from Orpen London 1929’.

Additionally, a photograph of Orpen (170 x 230 mm), oxidised and worn at edges, inscribed:

‘To Sydney Lansburgh in memory of many happy hours in London, 1929, William Orpen.’

156 157 76. PARTCH, Virgil Franklin (VIP)

Alaska, USA 1916 – Californie, USA 1984 Cartoonist

Bottle Fatigue by VIP New York: Duel, Sloan and Pearce, 1950.

First edition. Octavo (160 x 235 mm), (64) pp. Cartoons on the theme of alcohol, drunks and hang overs. Publisher’s glazed pictorial boards, spine rebacked.

Front free endpaper with a cartoon in black ink of a man catching martinis as they drip from above. Inscribed:

‘To Frances” signed below VIP’.

158 159 77. PEAKE, Mervyn

Kuling, Jiagxi, China 1911 – Burcot, England 1968 Painter, illustrator, writer

Drawings by Mervyn Peake London: Grey Walls Press, 1949.

First edition. Quarto (190 X 255 mm), 11pp., introduction, 62 full page reproductions. Publisher’s grey boards. Pictorial dust wrapper.

Half title with drawing in ink, head and shoulders of a young man. Inscribed below:

‘with very best wishes from Mervyn Peake March 1956’.

160 161 78. PICASSO, Pablo

Malaga, Spain 1881 – Mougins, France 1973 Painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, stage designer

Verve, Revue artistique et littéraire, vol. VII, Nos 25 et 26, Picasso à Vallauris 1949-1951. Critical essays by Daniel Kahnweiler, Odysseus Elytis, Georges Ramié. Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, 1951.

First edition. Folio (270 x 360 mm). Publisher’s pictorial boards.

Half title with a drawing of a stylised face in coloured crayons. Inscribed:

Pour Laugier Et Marie Leur Ami Picasso 2.12.51’

Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973) was a textile entrepreneur and patron, and a close friend of Picasso (cf. n° 38, 93). Henri Laugier (1883 – 1973) was a physiologist and polymath with a protean range of interests and friendships. The Cuttoli-Laugier donation to the Musée National d’Art Moderne included a collection of Picassos.

162 163 79. PICASSO, Pablo

Malaga, Spain 1881 – Mougins, France 1973 Painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, stage designer

Verve, Revue artistique et littéraire, vol. VIII, Nos 29 et 30, Suite de 180 dessins de Picasso. Preface by Teriade, essays by Michel Leiris and Rebecca West. Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, 1954.

First edition. Folio (270 x 360 mm). Later cloth with original pictorial boards mounted., new endpapers. A double edition of Verve which produces in full Picasso’s Vallauris suite, with 16 colour lithographs and 164 plates in black & white heliogravure. Some foxing.

Half title with full page drawing in black ink of an old man in a long coat, with spectacles and a pointed hat, carrying an umbrella and a book. He looks down at a boy, who sticks out his tongue. Inscribed to the side:

‘pour Serge et Suzon Robert Picasso Paris le 5.3.55 .’

Dr Serge Robert and his wife Suzon were neighbours of Picasso at the time he was living in the villa “Californie” in Cannes, and were frequent visitors.

164 165 80. PRINCE, Richard

Panama, 1966 Photographer, painter

Hippie Drawings Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005.

First edition. Quarto (310 x 235 mm), unnumbered. Publisher’s photographic hard cover.

Issued to coincide with an exhibition of Prince’s drawings at Sadie Coles HQ, London, November 2005.

Half title with drawing on black fibre pen of a grotesque human head, the printed circular “Hippie Drawings” motif being used as the noze.

Signed by the artist above.

166 167 81. RICHTER, Gerhard

Dresden, 1932 Painter, sculptor and photographer

Katalog zur Ausstellung Gerhard Richter Arbeiten 1962 bis 1971 Introductory essays by karl-Heinz Herring and Dietrich Helms. Dusseldorf: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1971.

190 x 260 mm. Publisher’s photographic covers, slight wear. Catalogue in German for an exhibition of Richter’s work at the Dusseldorf Grabbeplatz Kunsthalle.

Title page stamped at foot with “Galerie Six Friedrich”.

Half title bears a minimal drawing by Richter, a half circle perhaps echoing the cover illustration rainbow. Inscribed below:

‘Liebe Six alles für dich Dein Gerhard’.

168 169 82. ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel

London, England 1828- Birchington on sea, England 1882 Poet, painter, illustrator

A Treasury of English Sonnets Edited by David M. Main Manchester: Alexander Ireland & Co., 1880.

Small Quarto (135 x 195 mm), pp. VII, 470. Original publisher’s binding, black cloth stamped in gilt, fine condition. The volume was a gift from Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti to their mother, Frances Marina Lavinia Rossetti, on her 80th birthday.

On the last leaf is a manuscript sonnet by Christina, written especially for the occasion; and on a leaf between the half-title and the title-page is a poem by Dante Gabriel set within a superb fully worked composition in pen and ink of an angel, titled ‘Anima’, bearing a harp and an hour glass, signed below:

‘DG Rossetti pro Matre fecit Apr: 27.1880’.

Enclosed within the book is a moving four page letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to his mother in which he explains in great detail the complex iconography of this drawing.

The front and rear endpapers record the transmission of the book to succeeding members of the Rossetti family.

170 171 83. SATRAPI, Marjane

Rasht, Iran 1969 Graphic novelist, writer, filmmaker

Persepolis, volume 2 Graphic novel in French, Paris: L’Association, collection Ciboulette, 2001.

First edition. Quarto (165 x 245 mm), unnumbered pp. 84. Publisher’s pictorial green card.

Half title with drawing in black fibre pen of a young woman, autobiographical main character of the novel, descending a flight of steps. Inscribed below, on the last step :

‘Pour Frédéric. Marjane Satrapi’.

172 173 84. SCHULZ, Charles

Minneapolis, Minnesota USA 1922 – Santa Rosa, California USA 2000 Cartoonist, writer

Charlie Brown’s Second Super Book of Questions and Answers about the Earth and Space… from Plants to Planets! New York: Random House, 1977.

First edition. Quarto (215 x 280 mmm), pp. 50. Publisher’s pictorial laminated boards, some wear to edges.

Front free endpaper with full page drawing in blue ink of Snoopy with a heart. Inscribed above:

‘For Crystal’

and signed below:

‘SCHULZ’.

174 175 85. SCHWITTERS, Kurt

Hannover, Germany 1887 – Kendal, England 1948. Painter

Anna Blume. Dictungen. Hannover: Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1922.

8vo (190 x 130mm.), pp. 82. Original printed wrappers, with an invitation to a Schwitters exhibition at Blomqvist Kunsthandel [Oslo] dated 6.2.1934 loosely inserted.

Flyleaf with an original pencil drawing by Schwitters, comprising the face of a woman with the word «dada».

‘für Mulle, Djupvandshütta [Djupvasshytta] den 23.7.1933, Kurt Schwitters’.

Schwitters and his family holidayed each year in this Norwegian mountain resort, which became the subject of many of his paintings, particularly after his arrival in Norway as a refugee from the Nazis in 1937.

176 177 86. SEARLE, Ronald

Cambridge, England 1920 – Draguignan, Provence 2011 Illustrator, painter, cartoonist

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Scoundrel’. By R.E. Raspe and others Inscribed on endpaper : Profusely illustrated by Ronald Searle, with an introduction by S.J. Perleman New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. ‘This is copy n° 1 of a limited edition of one copy.

First edition. For Sid on poor return Quarto (210 x 280 mm), pp. 144. of a generous gesture and for Laura with love Publisher’s black and maroon boards. for being there Inscribed on front cover in black ink at head of page: Ronald ‘S.J. and Laura West Paris on publishing day October 1st 1969’. Perelman’s

Copy To the right side inscribed: of ’ ‘The baron von Perelman And at foot under the title taking up the burden

Decorated for of a preface’. them by R. Searle’ And at foot of the page: Some foxing to prelims. Pictorial dust wrapper, some losses to top edge. Inside cover and endpaper with 2 page fully worked composition, in black ink with blue, pink and ‘And from me too white highlights, depicting Baron Munchausen carrying a cannon, with an army behind him, inscribed below : because I love you all ‘Ronald Searle Monica’. and Authenticated by me R.E. Raspe S.J. Perelman (1904-1979), the American screenwriter and humourist, was a close friend of Ronald Searle.

178 179 180 181 87. SEMPÉ, Jean-Jacques

Bordeaux, France 1932. Cartoonist, writer

Monsieur Lambert Paris: Denoël, 1965.

First edition. Octavo (180 x 230 mm), pp. 60, numerous illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial beige cloth.

Front free endpaper with full page ink drawing of half-length man within a frame, handing out a red rose.

Inscribed at head of page:

‘Pour Jacqueline’

signed at foot:

‘J.J. Sempé.’

182 183 88. SEMPÉ, Jean-Jacques

Bordeaux, France 1932. Cartoonist, writer

Insondables Mystères Paris: Denoël, 1993.

First edition. Quarto (275 x 310 mm), pp. 104. Publisher’s blue cloth. Pictorial dust wrappers.

Front free endpaper with full page drawing in black ink of a cat staring out of a window, a version of the image on the dust wrapper. Above inscribed:

‘ à Jean Leymarie’

and below:

‘Sempé Juin 97’

Jean Leymarie (1919-2006) was a French art historian. He was the director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne from 1968 to 1973 and director of the French Academy in Rome from 1979 to 1985.

184 185 89. STEADMAN, Ralph

Wallasey, England 1936 Illustrator, cartoonist, writer.

The False Flamingoes Mischa Damjan, Ralph Steadman London: Dennis Dobson, 1968.

First edition in English. Quarto (210 x 290 mm), unpaginated. Original publisher’s boards, pictorial dust wrappers, price on flap inked out.

Front free endpaper and title page with full page images of flamingos in pink and black ink. Inscribed within:

‘Ralph Steadman 28 10 92’.

186 187 90. STEADMAN, Ralph

Wallasey, England 1936 Illustrator, cartoonist, writer

I Leonardo by Ralph Steadman London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

First edition. Quarto (270 x 300 mm). Publisher’s light green cloth, pictorial dust wrapper.

Half-title with full page caricatural drawing of a winged figure in black ink, sepia and pink wash. Inscribed:

‘To Jane from Ralph Steadman 2.3.84’.

The “J” of Jane with eyes and wings of a creature.

188 189 91. STEINLEN, Théophile Alexandre

Lausanne, Switzerland 1859 – Paris, France 1923 Painter, sculptor

Exposition d’Ouvrages Peints, Dessinés ou gravés de Th. A. Steinlen Préface by Anatole France Paris: Edition d’art Edouard Pelletan, 1903.

Octavo (145 x 200 mm), pp. 34, numbered ‘exemplaire 44’, printed on Japon. Signed engraved frontispiece reproducing cover image. Bound in half vellum by Carayon, original pictorial wrappers bound in. Bookplate of Eugène Richtenberger.

An original invitation to the exhibition laid in on front flyleaf. Limitation page with drawing in ink of a seated cat, inscribed below:

‘A Monsieur Richtenberger hommage cordial Steinlen.’

Eugène Richtenberg (1856-1902) was an art critic and author of La Peinture en Europe.

190 191 92. SUTHERLAND, Graham

London, England 1903 – London, England 1980 Artist, printmaker, designer

The Work of Graham Sutherland Text by Douglas Cooper London: Lund Humphries, 1961.

First edition. Quarto (250 x 295 mm), pp. 94 text, 15 colour plates, 174 black and white reproductions. Original publisher’s pictorial boards.

Front free endpaper with image of eagle’s head in coloured crayons (10 x 10 cm), emblem of St John, similar to the one he painted as part of the high altar tapestry for Coventry Cathedral. Inscribed in blue ink:

‘For K and Jane to whose friendship I awe so much with love Graham 20.XI.61’

Further inscribed in green and red ink:

‘For K and Jane Patient reader Gratefully Douglas Cooper Castille, 20th November, MCMLXI’.

Kenneth Clark, one of the dedicatees of the book, played an important part in Sutherland’s career.

192 193 93. TANGUY, Yves

Paris, France 1900 – Woodbury, Connecticut, USA 1955 Painter, printmaker

Yves Tanguy by André Breton. New York: Pierre Matisse Editions, 1946.

First edition. Quarto (230 x 305 mm), pp. 94. 2 colour plates, 33 reproductions in black & white. Publisher’s grey lettered boards, wear to spin, bumps to corners.

Half title with drawing in black and orange ink of a surrealist female figure, with another emerging from her mouth, her outstretched arm on fire. Inscribed:

‘Exemplaire de Madame Cuttoli très respectueusement, YVES TANGUY mars 1947

Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973) was a textile entrepreneur and patron, and a close friend of Picasso (cf. n° 38, 78).

194 195 94. TÀPIES, Antony

Barcelona, Spain 1923 – Barcelona, Spain 2012 Painter, sculptor

Tàpies – Witness of Silence by Alexandre Cirici New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1972.

First edition in English. Quarto (270 x 280 mm), 372 pp., 338 illustrations. Publisher’s cream cloth with printed abstract image. Pictorial dust wrapper, printed acetate overlay, some tears.

Front free endpaper and half title with full page abstract composition in soft pencil, red and brown gouache. Inscribed below:

‘A Werner Schmalenbach avec toute l’amitié de Tàpies Mai 1973.’

Werner Schmalenbach (1920 – 2010) was a German art critic, writer and museum director who wrote monographs on Leger, Schwitters and Tàpies himself (cf. n° 44).

196 197 95. TÀPIES, Antony

Barcelona, Spain 1923 – Barcelona, Spain 2012 Painter, sculptor

TÀPIES, signes et structures by Werner Schmalenbach Geneva: Weber, 1975.

First edition in French. Folio (280 x 350 mm), 152 pp., 152 illustrations. Publisher’s beige cloth with printed abstract image, with acetate wrapper.

Title page with full page drawing of a schematic human head, with an ‘X’ on the mouth. Inscribed within:

‘A Fredy Urfer souvenir de Tàpies’.

and dated below:

‘St Gallen 14/5/1995’.

198 199 96. THURBER, James

Columbus, USA 1894 – New York, USA 1961 Author, cartoonist, illustrator

The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments Written and illustrated by James Thurber Introduction by Dorothy Parker New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932.

Quarto (250 x 210 mm), pp. 156, unnumbered, full page cartoons. Original publisher’s pictorial boards, wear to head and foot of spine.

Front endpaper and free endpaper with drawings in ink, one full page of a trio of musicians (cello, violin and piano), the other of a typical Thurber dog confronting a butterfly. Inscribed on front free endpaper:

‘For Lovilla Bush With love and best wishes From James Thurber Who, like his cheques can always be counted on to come back to her Thurber June 1, 1934’.

Lovilla Bush was the telephone operator at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, and was credited with an encyclopaedic knowledge of private telephone numbers. In the same year, F. Scott Fitzgerald inscribed a copy of The Great Gatsby to her.

200 201 97. TOUCHARGUES, Louis

Saint-Cyr, France 1893 – Paris, France 1974 Painter, illustrator

La Parisienne de Touchargues by Robert Rey, with translation into English by Vyvyian Holland. Paris: de Valence Editeur, 1949.

First edition. Quarto (240 x 315 mm), pp. 67; 34 reproductions, 4 in colour, representing Paris night life. Publisher’s pictorial stiff card binding. Some wear to spine.

Front free endpaper with drawing in green, black, blue and sepia ink of the stylised figure of a painter with palette and brush, the head in form of a heart, painting a woman’s face. Inscribed within:

‘Pour la tendre Marcelle Oury, Touchargues 1950’.

Marcelle Oury (1894 – 1980) was a journalist, art critic and fashion designer (cf. n° 105, 106).

Additionally with loose invitation to a vernissage in May 1954, with a note by Touchargues on the rear leaf.

202 203 98. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de

Albi, France 1864 – Saint-André du Bois, France 1901 Painter, printmaker, illustrator

Histoires Naturelles by Jules Renard Edition ornée de vingt-deux lithographies originales de H. de Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris: H. Floury, Editeur, 1899.

First edition. Quarto (230 x 315 mm). N° 57 of edition limited to 100, illustrated with 22 original lithographs.

Bound in black goatskin by P.L. Martin, with mosaic title in front cover, signed on front paste down, dated 1960 on rear paste down. Original lithographed wrappers preserved. Housed in matching slip case.

Half title with drawing in ink of stylised elephant, with a man in a wide hat below. Inscribed above:

‘A de Lassalle Courageux acheteur HT Lautrec’.

204 205 99. UDERZO, Albert

Fismes, France 1927 Graphic novelist, illustrator

Une Aventure d’Asterix Asterix le Gaulois By René Goscinny, dessins d’Albert Uderzo Paris: Dagaud S. A., ND (1961).

First edition of the first book to feature the adventures of Asterix. Quarto (225 x 300), pp. 46. Original publisher’s pictorial boards, some wear to front joint, otherwise a very good copy.

Title-page with blue ink drawing of Asterix, signed ‘Uderzo’.

Additionally inscribed, in a speech bubble emanating from the printed Asterix’s mouth:

‘Pour Michel Deguergue, très amicalement, par Belisama et par Toutatis René Goscinny’

206 207 100. UDERZO, Albert

Fismes, France 1927 Graphic novelist, illustrator

Asterix et les Goths by René Goscinny Neuilly: Dargaud, 1972.

First edition. Quarto (225 x 300 mm), pp. 47. Publisher’s pictorial laminated boards.

Front free endpaper with full page drawing of the character Obelix in fibre pen, signed below:

‘Pour Fabrice Uderzo’.

208 209 101. VAN DER ELSKEN, Ed

Amsterdam, Netherlands 1925 – Edam, Netherlands 1990 Photographer, filmmaker

DE ONTDEKKING VAN JAPAN Photographs by Ed Van der Elsken, with explication notes in Dutch. Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij, 1988.

First edition. Quarto (305 x 310 mm), pp. 154. With pamphlet ‘Ratatouille Japonica’ enclosed at end. Publisher’s blind stamped grey cloth with red circle. Photographic wrappers. Front free endpaper with full page drawing in black ink of a flower, inscribed below:

‘Willem’

and signed

‘Ed’.

The inscription is to the Dutch photographer Willem Diepraam (1944) whose small circular blind stamp is on the half-title.

210 211 102. VAN DONGEN, Kees

Rotterdam, Netherlands 1877- Monaco, 1968 Painter, illustrator

Hassan-Badreddine-el-Bass-Raoui, Contes des Mille et une Nuits Translated by J-C Mardrus Paris, Editions de la Sirene, (1918).

Large quarto (248 x 322mm), pp.202, (14 unumbered, censured plates). 8 coloured pochoir plates; 67 plates in black & white, 2 of which double page; 42 illustrations in the text; 4 censured plates. One of 100 copies printed on Japon Imperial.

Full dark ocre crushed morocco by Germaine Schroeder with her stamped signature, boards with quadruple rules in black, front board with large central vignette with inlaid section of honey morocco with excised sections to form lettering for the title, beside which are the khol enhanced eyes that feature throughout the illustrations; and with additional tooling in blind and decorative onlays in an Art Deco pattern, spine with title in black between inlaid bands of honey morocco and ruling in blind, turn-ins ruled in black, marbled endpapers, black silk placemarker, original publisher’s printed wrappers and backstrip with illustration by Van Dongen preserved, t.e.g.

Loosely inserted is a fully worked composition in coloured inks and pastel, a developed version of the third of the censured plates. Written below are the words:

‘et saisit tes cuisses…’,

and in the right hand corner is the inscription:

‘à André Warnod amicalement Van Dongen’

André Warnod (1885-1960) was a French art critic and writer.

212 213 103. VENARD, Claude

Paris, France 1913 – Sanary sur Mer, France 1999 Painter

Claude Venard Text in French and English by André Salmon. Paris: Romanet, 1962.

First edition. Folio (275 x 390 mm), pp. 52, 1 photograph, 2 facsimile drawings, 23 reproductions in black & white, 9 in colour. Publisher’s stiff black card covers.

Title page with drawing in black ink, representing a nude lying on a mat, with a regatta in the background, signed with initials ‘C.V.’

Inscribed at head of page:

‘Pour Madame Ken[?] 55 rue Pergolese C. Venard’.

The drawing is a version of a painting p. 22. Additionally with loose gallery flyer for an exhibition of Vernard’s work at Romanet Rive-Gauche, April 1962.

214 215 104. VIEIRA DA SILVA, Maria Helena

Lisbon, Portugal 1908 – Paris, France 1992 Painter, printmaker

La Peinture de Vieira da Silva : chemins d’approche by Dora Vallier Geneva: Weber, 1971.

First edition. Quarto (245 x 275 mm), pp. 296; 43 colour reproductions, 203 in black and white. Volume 1 of a projected 2 volume work on Vieira, the second never issued. Publisher’s brown cloth, pictorial dust wrapper, slight wear to edges.

Title page with full page abstract composition in black ink and wash, in which an initial inscription has been overlaid by a complex abstract network of lines, incorporating the word ‘Amitié’. Inscribed at head of page ‘Bazaine’, and further down, at foot of composition:

‘Pour Jean Bazaine Amitié Amitié Amitié Vieira da Silva le I - XII - 71’

Additionally inscribed by the author at foot of page:

‘Cordiales pensées Dora Vallier’.

Jean Bazaine (1904-2001) was a French artist, painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer (cf. n° 56).

216 217 105. VILLON, Jacques (Duchamp, Gaston Émile)

Damville, France 1875 – Puteaux, France 1963 Painter, printmaker

Eloge de Jacques Villon By Jacques Lassaigne Paris: Manuel Bruker Editeur, 1955.

First edition. Folio (260 x 330 mm). Edition of 200, with 10 signed engravings by Villon. Bound in red Morocco, spine lettered in gold and black. Housed in slipcase.

Front free endpaper with full page drawing in black ink of a standing figure, inscribed below:

‘Jacques Villon à Marcelle Oury 1961’.

Additionally inscribed on title page:

‘à Marcelle Oury Jacques Villon avec de l’enthousiasme pour son enthousiasme 1959.’

Marcelle Oury (1894 – 1980) was a journalist, art critic and fashion designer (cf. n° 97, 106).

218 219 106. VILLON, Jacques (Duchamp, Gaston Émile)

Damville, France 1875 – Puteaux, France 1963 Painter, printmaker

Jacques Villon By Jean-Paul Crespelle Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1958.

First edition. Duodecimo (112 x 175 mm), pp. 10 text in French, 20 colour plates. Publisher’s paper wrappers with colour reproduction.

A small monograph spanning the artist’s career. Half title with an abstract composition in watercolours, inscribed:

‘Pour Marcelle Jacques Villon’.

Marcelle Oury (1894 – 1980) was a journalist, art critic and fashion designer (cf. n° 97, 105).

220 221 107. ZADKINE, Ossip

Vitebsk, Russia 1890 – Paris, France 1967 Sculptor, printmaker

ZADKINE by André de Ridder. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1929.

First edition. Quarto (230 x 285 mm), pp. 29 text, 32 photographic plates. N° 32 of limited edition of 60 on papier d’arches, with signed engraving. Original publisher’s pictorial wrappers.

Front free enpaper with full page drawing in blue ink of a half length female nude with arm raised. Inscribed below:

‘To Mrs L. Dyer whith [sic] all my sincère sympathie O. Zadkine.’

Louise Dyer (1884-1962) whose bookplate is on the inside front cover, was an Australian music publisher and patron of the arts.

222 223 Benjamin Spademan Rare Books 14 Mason’s Yard, London SW1Y 6BU www.benjaminspademan.com

Printed by DEMPACK Ltd. De Montford, Leicester September 2017

Photography Louie Fasciolo, Antiquarian Photographer wwww.antiquarianphotographer.com

Design Constance Allard [email protected]