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279 - THARAUD, Jérôme and Jean, and MADRASSI, Lucien.
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Estimate €250 - €350
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THARAUD, Jérôme and Jean, and MADRASSI, Lucien. A Kingdom of God. Paris, Lapina, 1925. In-4 (29.5 x 20.5 cm), red half-maroquin with bands, ivory vellum on the covers, decorated with gilded foliage. Gilded head. Covers and spine intact. 261 pp., etchings. Slight scuffs on the front cover. Etching marks on the facing pages. A deluxe edition and first illustrated edition, featuring 86 original etchings by Lucien Madrassi (1881–1956) depicting Jews from Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Limited edition of 435 copies. This one is one of 304 printed on pure rag Holland laid paper (nos. 97–400), bearing the number 391. A novel by Jérôme and Jean Tharaud, remarkably illustrated by Lucien Madrassi (1881–1956), an artist and portraitist of complex talent who sought above all to capture on faces the traces of souls... To produce this work, he travelled to the ghetto regions of Galicia and Subcarpathian Russia in order to imbue the Tharaud brothers’ work with all that delightful authenticity which could only arise from documentation gathered from life. The material gathered by Madrassi, and marvellously brought to life by him, makes this edition the most moving of art books. A very fine, untrimmed copy, in a binding by René Kieffer, with the half-title page featuring an autograph dedication signed by the Tharaud brothers: ‘To Mr Charles Duvet, with warm regards...’.
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Auction time 11/02/2026 at 2:00 PM
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