Untitled, from Gleizes, Du Cubisme

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Untitled, from Gleizes, Du Cubisme

ArtistAFTER Georges Braque (French, 1882 - 1963)

Publisher Compagnie française des arts graphiques, Paris, 1947

Printer text: R. Girard & Cie., Paris plates: Compagnie française des Arts graphiques, [Paris]

Author Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1957)

Date1947

DimensionsPlate: 7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (18 x 13 cm)
chemise: 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 x 1 1/8 in. (273 x 222 x 28mm)
book: 10 x 8 3/8 x 7/8 in. (254 x 213 x 23mm)
page: 10 x 8 in. (254 x 203mm)

MediumEngraving and aquatint

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1979.22D

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Label TextThis book was a new edition of a text first published in 1912, when the cubism style was relatively new. This new edition contained 7 original prints by Picasso, Metzinger, Laurencin, Gleizes, Picabia, Villon and Duchamp. Picasso's etching L'Homme au Chapeau dated from 1914, when he had illustrated Le Siège de Jerusalem.Published Referencescf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 122