La fin du monde filmée par l’ange du Notre Dame

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La fin du monde filmée par l’ange du Notre Dame

Artist Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955)

Publisher Éditions de la sirène, Paris, 1919

Printer l’Imprimerie Frazier-Soye, Paris; pochoir coloring: Richard, coloriste, Paris

Author Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric-Louis Sauser) (French, 1887-1961)

Date1919

Dimensionsbook: 12 1/2 x 9 13/16 x 3/16 in. (318 x 249 x 5mm)
page: 12 1/2 x 9 13/16 in. (318 x 249mm)

MediumOriginal prints: 22 pochoir prints; 6 incorporate line block reproductions of drawings Reproductions: 2 line block reproductions of drawings, incorporating lettering (wrappers) Text: letterpress on Lafuma cream wove paper (typeface: Morland, 24 pt.)

ClassificationBooks

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1981.52

Not on View

Label TextFernand Léger, a leading Cubist painter, remarked of his friend Blaise Cendrars, "Together we got tangled up in modern life. We plunged into it and roared ahead." The End of the World was written by Cendrars as a screenplay, but was instead published with Léger's illustrations. In Cendrars' story, not told but filmed by an angel, God, in the guise of a ruthless, cigar-smoking American businessman, promotes an apocalyptic war as a promotional stunt for one of his ventures. Léger's fractured, dynamic compositions form a close alliance with Cendrars' text.Published Referencescf. Stein, Donna, Cubist Prints/Cubist Books, New York, 1983, no. 64, p. 78, repr. cf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 105 cf. Castleman, Riva, A Century of Artists Books, New York, 1994, pp. 170-171 cf. Hogben, Carol, Rowan Watson, editors, From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books, London, 1985, no. 54 cf. The Frank Crowninshield Collection of Modern French Illustrated Books, New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1943, no. 444 cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 26Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Between the Wars, Sept. 5-Dec.31 2008.

Toledo Museum of Art, Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, & llustrated Books, Jan. 22-June 24, 1983.

Toledo Museum of Art, Pop Prints from the TMA Collection, Jul. 7-Oct. 8, 2006.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Great War: Art on the Frontline, Jul. 25-Oct. 19, 2014.