Le Poète Assassiné (La grande collection, no. 3)

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Le Poète Assassiné (La grande collection, no. 3)

Artist Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953)

Publisher Au sans pareil, Paris, 1926

Printer lithographs: l’Imprimerie Duchatel, Paris; text: R. Coulouma, Argenteuil (H. Barthélemy, director)

Author Guillaume Apollinaire (French, 1880-1918)

Date1926

DimensionsChemise: H: 11 1/2 in. (292 mm); W: 9 1/8 in. (232 mm); Depth: 7/8 in. (23 mm).
Book: H: 11 3/8 in. (289 mm); W: 9 in. (229 mm); Depth: 1 in. (25 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 11 1/8 in. (282 mm); W: 8 11/16 in. (221 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 36 lithographs (incl. 18 headpieces), plus 1 woodcut in red (cover). Text: letterpress (typeface: Didot?). Paper: Montgolfier d’Annonay cream wove paper, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.437

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Label TextThis book was published for the eighth anniversary of Apollinaire's death.Published Referencescf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 92

cf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 101

cf. The Frank Crowninshield Collection of Modern French Illustrated Books, New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1943, no. 215.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 27.