Les minutes de sable mémorial (Minutes of the Sands of Time)

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Les minutes de sable mémorial (Minutes of the Sands of Time)

Artist Alfred Jarry French, 1873-1907

Author Alfred Jarry French, 1873-1907

Publisher Mercure de France

Printer C. Renaudie, Paris

Place of OriginParis

Date1894

Dimensionsbook: 5 1/2 x 4 7/16 x 11/16 in. (139 x 113 x 18mm)
page (untrimmed): 5 1/2 x 4 7/16 in. (139 x 113mm)

MediumRare book with 8 original woodcuts by Jarry (7 hors texte in dark blue and brown, and 1 on the wrapper, printed in dark gold). Plus 2 additional woodcuts (earlier 'imageries populaires') hors texte, printed in brown and 1 line-block reproduction of pen-and-ink drawing, printed in black. Cream laid arches paper, letterpress printed.

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Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund

Object number

2001.5

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Published Referencescf. Talvert & Place, Auteurs modernes, X, p. 128, no. 1 cf. Arrivé, Michel, Peintures, Gravures, & Dessins d'Alfred Jarry, (Paris: Collège de Pataphysique, n.d.) pp. 112-114, p. 116, p. 125 cf. De los nabis a la patafísica: Alfred Jarry, Ivam Centre Julio González, 2000 cf. Baas, Jacquelynn and Richard S. Field, The Artistic Revival of the woodcut in France, 1850-1900 (Ann Arbor, 1983), p. 121f, cat. 70. cf. Beaumont, Keith, Alfred Jarry (Bath, Great Britain: Leicester University Press, 1984). cf. Castleman, Riva, A Century of Artists' Books (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994). cf. Lennon, Nigey, Alfred Jarry: the Man With the Axe (Los Angeles: Panjandrum Books, 1984) cf. Schumacher, Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire (London: Macmillan, 1984). cf. Shattuck, Roger, The Banquet Years. The Origins of the Avant Garde in France, 1885 to World War I (New York: Vintage, 1968). cf. The Spirit of Monmartre, edited by Phillip Dennis (New Brunswick, NJ: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1996), p. 143, 156. cf. http://www.ukans.edu/~sma/almanac/min.htmExhibition HistoryTMA New Acquisitions in Graphic Arts, Dec. 21, 2001-March 30, 2002Comparative ReferencesSee also Michel Arrivé, Peintures, Gravures, & Dessins d'Alfred Jarry (Paris: Collège de 'Pataphysique, n.d.) cf. Jacquelynn Baas and Richard S. Field, The Artistic Revival of the woodcut in France, 1850-1900 (Ann Arbor, 1983), p. 121f, cat. 70. cf. Keith Beaumont, Alfred Jarry (Bath, Great Britain: Leicester University Press, 1984). cf. Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists' Books (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994). cf. Nigey Lennon, Alfred Jarry: the Man With the Axe (Los Angeles: Panjandrum Books, 1984) cf. Schumacher, Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire (London: Macmillan, 1984). cf. Roger Shattuck, The Banquet Years. The Origins of the Avant Garde in France, 1885 to World War I (New York: Vintage, 1968). cf. The Spirit of Montmartre, edited by Phillip Dennis (New Brunswick, NJ: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1996), p. 143, 156. cf. http://www.ukans.edu/~sma/almanac/min.htm