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DEDICATION BY LÉGER. CENDRARS, BLAISE. La Fin du Monde filmée par l´Ange N.-D. Roman compositions en coleurs par Fernand Léger. Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1919.

Small folio (315x250 mm). (59) pp. Many illustrations of which 22 in pochoir. With dedication on half title to "A Mr (Monsieur) et Mme (Madame) Roosval en souvenir de leur aimable visite à mon atelier. Janvier 23, F Léger".
Original decorated wrapper with (pochoir-) coloured bookdecoration by F. Léger (small damage on lower part of front wrapper, partly worn and chipped to edges, small crease, small pencil note on lower wrapper, some wear to spine). Some soiling to margins of half title.
Limited edition of 1225 unnumbered from an edition of 1200 copies.

First edition. Among the most important pochoir illustrated books of the 20th century.
Cendrars, Blaise (1887-1961). This cine-poetry was the first work he wrote with his left hand, after losing his right on the battlefield in 1915.

Dedicated to John Roosval and his wife Ellen Roosval von Hallwyl (1867-1952), Swedish painter and sculptor. She married the courtier and diplomat Henrik de Maré in 1887 and was the mother of Rolf de Maré (founder of the Ballets suédois). After a scandalous divorce in 1906, Ellen remarried the art historian Johnny Roosval the year after. (Wikipedia).

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Auktionsnummer:

540867

Datum:

2018-06-19