Books and Manuscripts · Lot 59
Epstein, J. Bonjour Cinema.
Paris, La Sirène, 1921, 118,(9)(fold-out)p., ills., typography and orig. wr. des. by CLAUDE DALBANNE, one of 46 numb. copies (30).
- Lot
- 59
- Auction
- Auction 81, 18-22 Nov 2024
- Estimate
- €400 – €600
- Photos
- 4 photos
Condition
Sm. owner's entry on title-p. Backstrip sl. worn/ dam. (lacking approx. 3,5 cm. at the foot). Very good, untrimmed copy.
Notes
One of 30 copies on "Hollande Zonen Van Gelder" [sic]. Series Collection des tracts, no.6. Text by one of the pioneers of avant garde and modernist cinema, with design and illustrations inspired by constructivism and Dada. Global Avantgarde France 15; Andel p.294; The Avantgarde Applied p.227; Futurisms in the World p.436: "(...) containing poems, prose, reproductions of paintings, manifestos, pages with typographic compositions and a photographic portrait of the Russian actress Alle Nazimova that recalls the Photodynamism of the Bragaglia Brothers."