Berard christian illustrator (2 risultati)

Softcover. Limited Edition: #76/302. Octavo, 121 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in printed beige wrappers. Original glassine in Near Fine condition, with only the smallest tear near head of spine. Portrait frontispiece present, top edge largely unopened, and text block interior clean. Number 76 of 85 copies on Vergé bouffant with a portrait of the author by Christian Bérard, signed by the author and artist, from an edition limited to 302 copies. CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. The first French edition of selections from Stein's modernist novel, The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress. Stein's novel has a notoriously difficult publication history: a portion of the work was printed in Ford Maddox Ford's transatlantic review in 1924, before being released in its entirety by McAlmon's Contact Press in 1925 (in a limited edition of 500 copies). After its 1925 publication, there was no other full and complete english language edition released until 1966. The present edition represents the first publication of Stein's work in a language other than English, and was also one of the first works published by Éditions de la Montagne (founded by Hugnet in the same year). References: Wilson D5d. 1346069. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Oblong 4to. Black ink on paper. An ink sketch of a stage design prepared for Jean Cocteau's tragic play "Renaud et Armide", which premiered at the Comédie Française in 1943. The drawing shows the cave of the magician Armide; the charming profile of a woman hovering above the cave recalls the beautiful costumes that would be made for the play. Bérard also created the fine lithographs that illustrate Cocteau's book "Renaud et Armide", published by Gallimard that same year. - On Jean Cocteau's personal stationery with the printed address "36, Rue de Montpensier" (Cocteau's mezzanine overlooked the gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris). Some discoloration due to unprofessional tape repairs on the verso; several extensive edge tears and a missing corner. - An exciting and intimate association piece, uniting two brilliant artistic friends. We are indebted to Philippe Mianes for his valuable assistance in identifying this sketch.…