Le casseur d’assiettes: pièce en un acte

Artist Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887-1927)

Publisher Éditions de la Galerie Simon (André Simon et cie.), Paris, 1924 (under the direction of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler)

Printer lithographs: Pitault, Paris; text: Henri Denous, Paris

Author Armand Salacrou (French, 1899-1989)

Date1924

DimensionsBook: H: 9 7/8 in. (251 mm); W: 7 13/16 in. (198 mm); Depth: 7/16 in. (11 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 9 5/8 in. (244 mm); W: 7 1/2 in. (190 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 5 lithographs, including cover (3 have been removed from the text block and are laid into a portfolio). Text: letterpress in black with red. Paper: Arches cream laid paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.540

Not on View

Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 125

cf. Strachan, W. J., The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century livre d'artiste, New York, 1969, p. 333

cf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 102.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 29.