ALBERT GLEIZES and JEAN METZINGER, Du Cubisme. Gravures Originales par Marcel Duchamp/Albert Gleizes/Marie Laurencin/Francis Picabia/Pablo Picasso/Jacques Villon d'apres G. Braque/André Derain/Juan Gris/Fernand Leger, Paris, Compagnie Française des Arts Graphiques, 1947

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ALBERT GLEIZES and JEAN METZINGER, Du Cubisme. Gravures Originales par Marcel Duchamp/Albert Gleizes/Marie Laurencin/Francis Picabia/Pablo Picasso/Jacques Villon d'apres G. Braque/André Derain/Juan Gris/Fernand Leger, Paris, Compagnie Française des Arts Graphiques, 1947

the complete set of eleven unsigned etchings, engravings and aquatints, title, text and justification, copy 403 of 435 (copies 1-20 with several states and two suites of the prints; copies 21-35 with one suite; copies 36-435 as here), the full sheets, loose, pale time staining, occasional very pale foxing, original wove paper wrapper (time stained), wove paper-covered sleeve and slipcase with collaged label on spine (time stained). 280 x 225mm.

Lot Essay

Including: Marcel Duchamp, Coffee Grinder (not in Schwartz); Albert Gleizes, [Cubist Portrait]; Marie Laurencin, Tête de Jeune Fille (M. 250); Jean Metzinger, [Cubist Composition]; Francis Picabia, [Cubist Composition]; Pablo Picasso, L'Homme au Chapeau (B. 29); Jacques Villon, After Georges Braque, Le Cheval (G. and P. 295)