Les idylles
Artist: Henri Laurens (French, 1885-1954)
Publisher: Éditions de la revue Verve, Paris, 1945 (Tériade, Angèle Lamotte)
Printer: Théo Schmied, [s.l.] (G. Rougeaux, R. Doré, pressmen)
Author: Theocritus (Greek, about 300 -260 BCE)
Date: 1945
Dimensions:
Slipcase: H: 13 9/16 in. (345 mm); W: 10 7/16 in. (265 mm); Depth: 1 3/4 in. (44 mm).
Chemise: H: 13 1/4 in. (337 mm); W: 10 5/16 in. (262 mm); Depth: 1 1/2 in. (38 mm).
Book: H: 13 1/4 in. (336 mm); W: 10 1/16 (255 mm); Depth: 1 1/4 in. (32 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 13 1/16 in. (332 mm); W: 9 15/16 in. (252 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 38 wood engravings in sanguine from blocks engraved by Théo Schmied, plus 1 embossed and gilded vignette (cover).
Text: letterpress.
Paper: Arches ivory laid paper, watermarked.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.655
Label Text:Publisher: Tériade
Henri Laurens, Les idylles (Idylls), Text by Theocritus (1945)
Juan Gris, Au soleil du plafond (In the Ceiling Sun). Text by Pierre Reverdy (1955)
Le Corbusier, Poème de l’angle droit (Poem of the Right Angle). Text by Le Corbusier
(1955)
Fernand Léger, La ville (The City) (1959)
Greek-born Efstratios Tériade started in publishing as artistic director of the journal Cahiers d’art. By 1937 he had started Verve, his own art magazine. Both under the Verve organization and on his own, Tériade published a series of fine books specializing in large, colorful prints.
Les idylles was the first of three collaborations between Tériade and Henri Laurens. Each featured a classical text and wood engravings. This text is a translation of poems by the Greek poet Theocritus. The white lines and terracotta color of Laurens’s wood engravings suggest ancient Greek vase painting.
Au soleil du plafond is an example of a project Tériade completed after another publisher had dropped it. The project began in 1916 as a collaboration between Juan Gris and poet Pierre Reverdy: Gris would supply 20 images; Reverdy 20 prose poems. The project was abandoned with only 11 images completed. Much later, after Gris’s death, the original gouaches were discovered and converted to lithographs. Tériade completed the book in 1955, under Reverdy’s supervision.
In 1954 Fernand Léger began the lithographs for La ville, a project celebrating his beloved Paris. When the artist died the following year, the lithographs and text remained unfinished. Four years later Tériade issued a portfolio of 29 color lithographs based on the work that Léger had completed.
Henri Laurens, Les idylles (Idylls), Text by Theocritus (1945)
Juan Gris, Au soleil du plafond (In the Ceiling Sun). Text by Pierre Reverdy (1955)
Le Corbusier, Poème de l’angle droit (Poem of the Right Angle). Text by Le Corbusier
(1955)
Fernand Léger, La ville (The City) (1959)
Greek-born Efstratios Tériade started in publishing as artistic director of the journal Cahiers d’art. By 1937 he had started Verve, his own art magazine. Both under the Verve organization and on his own, Tériade published a series of fine books specializing in large, colorful prints.
Les idylles was the first of three collaborations between Tériade and Henri Laurens. Each featured a classical text and wood engravings. This text is a translation of poems by the Greek poet Theocritus. The white lines and terracotta color of Laurens’s wood engravings suggest ancient Greek vase painting.
Au soleil du plafond is an example of a project Tériade completed after another publisher had dropped it. The project began in 1916 as a collaboration between Juan Gris and poet Pierre Reverdy: Gris would supply 20 images; Reverdy 20 prose poems. The project was abandoned with only 11 images completed. Much later, after Gris’s death, the original gouaches were discovered and converted to lithographs. Tériade completed the book in 1955, under Reverdy’s supervision.
In 1954 Fernand Léger began the lithographs for La ville, a project celebrating his beloved Paris. When the artist died the following year, the lithographs and text remained unfinished. Four years later Tériade issued a portfolio of 29 color lithographs based on the work that Léger had completed.
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