Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans, manuscrits et illustrés par Henri Matisse
[Paris], Tériade Editeur, [1950].
Folio, 103 pages (except for the letterpress limitation page, all are colour lithographs).
Loose, as issued, in the original plain card covers, with the two-colour folding lithographed dustwrapper and plain glassine dustwrapper; leading and bottom edges uncut; some faint offsetting internally; a couple of trifling smudges; essentially a fine copy with the dustwrapper very slightly foxed, and with the glassine dustwrapper almost imperceptibly worn at the extremities (and now housed in a later custom-made card case).
Number 417 of 1200 copies signed by Henri Matisse (a further 30 hors commerce copies were also produced). This delightful artist's book, comprising 26 double-sided sheets of colour lithographs, was entirely designed by Matisse, including the calligraphy, decorations and illustrations. The lithographs were printed under Matisse's direction by Mourlot Frères on a heavy wove paper specially produced by the Arches paperworks. Matisse was enamoured of the rondeaux, ballades and chansons of Charles, Duke of Orleans (1394-1465).
Item #140766
Price (AUD):
$6,500.00