Books and Manuscripts · Lot 34
Cendrars, B. La Fin du Monde filmée par l'Ange N.-D.
Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1919, 1st ed., (59)p., (pochoir-)coloured bookdecoration by FERNAND LÉGER, printed in 1225 numb. copies (1200), orig. dec. wr., sm. folio.
- Lot
- 34
- Auction
- Auction 81, 18-22 Nov 2024
- Estimate
- €1,500 – €2,500
- Result
- €1,500
- Photos
- 7 photos
Condition
Last free endpaper and verso frontwr. sl. foxed; contents otherwise fine. Spine partly dam.; wrs. sl. browned and w. a few waterstains; corners bumped.
Notes
Monod 2395; Carteret V, p.41; Skira 197; Andel, Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950 p.99-100; P. van Capelleveen a.o., Voices and Visions. The Koopman Collection and the Art of the French Book p.26f; Bolliger IV,249, V,78 and VI,425: "Ein Hauptwerk des frühen Cendrars, dem Léger von seinen bedeutendsten Illustrationen (Collagen und Typocollagen) widmete. Ein Markstein des modernen illustrierten Buches, in welchem Typographie und Illustration zu vollkommener Einheit verschmelzen." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE.