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FOUJITA. BRINDEJOINT-OFFENBACH, Jacques.
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FOUJITA. BRINDEJOINT-OFFENBACH, Jacques.
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €2,500
Voluntary lot
Description
FOUJITA. BRINDEJOINT-OFFENBACH, Jacques.
Les Divertissements d’Eros. Love poems illustrated with watercolours by Foujita.
Paris, Jean Coren, 1927.
Quarto, frontispiece, 8 plates by Tsuguharu Foujita and 20 repeated end-piece illustrations, including one on the title page, all coloured by stencil. Unbound, in the publisher’s slipcase.
A fine copy.
The half-title page is adorned with an ink and watercolour drawing by Foujita, signed in French and Japanese, depicting two female busts.
Limited edition of 296 numbered copies.
One of 10 printed on pearlescent Japanese paper, following a single copy on antique Japanese paper; this is no. 5.
Complete with the two supplementary suites, in black and in colour on MBM watermarked vellum.
Bearing the artist’s autograph signature on the margin.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, moved in 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.
‘Sought-after edition’, Carteret, IV, 83.
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