.jpg?w=1)
Details
BONNARD, Pierre (1867-1947) -- LONGUS. Les Pastorales ou Daphnis et Chloé. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 31 October 1902.
4º (294 x 240 mm). 156 monochrome lithographic illustrations by Pierre Bonnard, comprising 143 illustrations, one title vignette, one fleuron, six headpieces, and 5 tailpieces. Red crushed morocco janseniste by R. Devauchelle, with the original printed wrappers bound in, spine titled and dated in gilt, grey moiré doublures, gilt ruled turn-ins, marbled slipcase, the front wrapper with a lithographic illustration by Bonnard.
A MOST CHARMING ILLUSTRATED BOOK BY THE NABI PIERRE BONNARD; 156 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS 'OÙ BONNARD ATTEINT LE SOMMET DE SON GENIE D'ILLUSTRATEUR' (Francois Chapon).
‘The lithographs, of an unprecedented lightness of touch, have been printed with such subtlety and skill that you seem to see the original crayon, and they have that marvellous spontaneity that will remain for ever one of Bonnard's greatest gifts’ (Guignard). Printed in 250 copies at the Imprimerie Nationale, this one number 200 on 200 on Holland Van Gelder paper.
The Artist and the Book 1860-1960, 28 (‘the book is today considered one of the finest of its period’); Chapon 279; Guignard quoted in Barber, Daphnis and Chloe: the Market and Metamorphoses of an Unknown Bestseller, 1989, pp. 73-74; Ray 384; Rauch 22; Garvey 28; Bouvet, Bonnard. Catalogue de l'Œuvre Gravé, 1981, 75; From Manet to Hockney 18.
4º (294 x 240 mm). 156 monochrome lithographic illustrations by Pierre Bonnard, comprising 143 illustrations, one title vignette, one fleuron, six headpieces, and 5 tailpieces. Red crushed morocco janseniste by R. Devauchelle, with the original printed wrappers bound in, spine titled and dated in gilt, grey moiré doublures, gilt ruled turn-ins, marbled slipcase, the front wrapper with a lithographic illustration by Bonnard.
A MOST CHARMING ILLUSTRATED BOOK BY THE NABI PIERRE BONNARD; 156 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS 'OÙ BONNARD ATTEINT LE SOMMET DE SON GENIE D'ILLUSTRATEUR' (Francois Chapon).
‘The lithographs, of an unprecedented lightness of touch, have been printed with such subtlety and skill that you seem to see the original crayon, and they have that marvellous spontaneity that will remain for ever one of Bonnard's greatest gifts’ (Guignard). Printed in 250 copies at the Imprimerie Nationale, this one number 200 on 200 on Holland Van Gelder paper.
The Artist and the Book 1860-1960, 28 (‘the book is today considered one of the finest of its period’); Chapon 279; Guignard quoted in Barber, Daphnis and Chloe: the Market and Metamorphoses of an Unknown Bestseller, 1989, pp. 73-74; Ray 384; Rauch 22; Garvey 28; Bouvet, Bonnard. Catalogue de l'Œuvre Gravé, 1981, 75; From Manet to Hockney 18.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
Brought to you by
Eugenio Donadoni
