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Fin de Siècle Legrand, Louis A series of 30 original etching…
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Fin de Siècle Legrand, Louis A series of 30 original etching…
See original version (German)
Estimate €800 - €1,200
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Description
Fin de Siècle
Legrand, Louis
A series of 30 original etchings. In: *Poème à l’eau-forte*. 1914. Full-page etchings, some with additional text printed over them. Each signed or monogrammed in the plate. Each 20.4 x 16.4 cm. - Original French paperback with lithographically illustrated spine and cover title. - Throughout, magnificent, crisp prints of velvety black, occasionally with minimal foxing and browning along the right-hand margin.
Monod 9190. - One of 80 copies printed on Perrigaut-Mazure vélin with watermark (swan, lily, ‘Louis Legrand’). - The partly erotic etchings by Louis Legrand, which were set alongside the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Théophile Gautier and others. Published by Gustave Pellet in Paris. Also includes 45 woodcuts on 252 unnumbered pages. - Legrand was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, and later studied under Félicien Rops in Paris. He became a contributor to major illustrated magazines and created his pastels and etchings – often with a slightly erotic flavour – based on people from all walks of life in Montmartre. - In good overall condition.
Series of 30 original etchings by Louis Legrand. In: “Poème à l’eau-forte". 1914. Full-page etchings, some with additional text printed in the plate. Each signed or monogrammed in the plate. Each 20.4 x 16.4 cm. - Original French wrappers with a chromolithographically illustrated spine and cover title. - Throughout, splendid, crisp prints of velvety blackness, with occasional minimal foxing and browning in the right-hand margin. - Monod 9190. - One of 80 copies on Perrigaut-Mazure vélin with watermark (swan, lily, ‘Louis Legrand’). - The partly erotic etchings by Louis Legrand, which were juxtaposed with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Théophile Gautier and others. Published by Gustave Pellet in Paris. Also featuring 45 woodcuts on 252 unnumbered pages. - - Legrand was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, and later studied under Félicien Rops in Paris. He became a contributor to major illustrated magazines and created his pastels and etchings – which often had a slightly erotic quality – based on people from all walks of life in Montmartre. - In good overall condition.
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