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BARBIER. ROLLAND, Romain.
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157
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BARBIER. ROLLAND, Romain.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
BARBIER. ROLLAND, Romain.
[PAINTED BINDING]. Jean Christophe, Paris.
Paris, Cahiers de la Quinzaine, (1909).
In-12, (8)-108-XVII pp. Contemporary cream-coloured Bradel cardboard binding, featuring a bouquet in a basket painted in gouache on the front cover, with gold highlights, signed G. Barbier and dated 1918, spine with painted title and author’s name, front cover preserved (board very slightly tarnished and rubbed, paper oxidised and 2 pp. restored).
A very attractive painted binding by George Barbier in the Art Deco style.
Probably produced in the 1920s when Barbier was associated with the École des Arts Décoratifs and the UCAD group, which practised and created book bindings.
Georges Barbier (1882–1932), renowned painter, illustrator and fashion designer.
The title is a section (II – Dans la Maison-1) of Romain Rolland’s cyclical novel, *Jean-Christophe à Paris*. A sort of serialised edition preceding the definitive original, which was published in 1948.
Rare.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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