Le désespéranto
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Le désespéranto
Artist
Joan Miró
(Spanish, 1893-1983)
Publisher
Bordas
([Paris], 1949)
Author
Tristan Tzara
(French (born Romania), 1896-1963)
Date1949
DimensionsSlipcase: H: 6 in. (152 mm); W: 4 13/16 in. (122 mm); Depth: 3 3/8 in. (86 mm).
Book: H: 5 5/8 in. (143 mm); W: 4 9/16 in. (116 mm); Depth: 1 in. (25 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 5 5/8 in. (143 mm); W: 4 5/16 in. (110 mm).
Book: H: 5 5/8 in. (143 mm); W: 4 9/16 in. (116 mm); Depth: 1 in. (25 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 5 5/8 in. (143 mm); W: 4 5/16 in. (110 mm).
MediumOriginal prints: 8 etchings in black with added pochoir color.
Text: letterpress.
Paper: hand-made Auvergne Richard de Bas cream laid paper, watermarked: RICHARD DE BAS.
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number
1984.948C
Not on View
cf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 298
cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, nos. 57, 125.
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Feb. 14--May 11, 2003.
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