BIB_ID
193779
Accession number
MA 4547
Creator
Moore, Henry, 1898-1986
Display Date
1949 Nov. 3-1951 Aug. 4.
Credit line
Purchase, Fellows Fund in honor of Francis S. Mason, Jr.; 1987.
Description
12 items (20 p.)
Notes
The book discussed in these letters appeared in 1951 (dated 1950); it was Moore's first illustrated book. The lithographs were made in France from plastics that Moore sent over from England.
Summary
Concerning his illustrations for an edition of Goethe's Prometheus, translated by André Gide, that Jonquières was publishing; giving a detailed account of the progress of Moore's work and instructions for the production of color lithographs for the book. The letter dated 1951 Mar. 2 speaks of his exhibition in Athens.
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