Accession number
PML 195605
Published
[Paris] : Maeght éditeur : Pierre à feu, [1947]
Credit line
Gift of Frances and Michael Baylson, 2010.
Notes
Statement of responsibility from t.p. verso.
On cover and added t.p.: Pierre à feu.
Original illustrations: 1 linocut and 1 lithograph; Matisse's cut-out reproduced lithographically on cover (cf. Cowat).
Linocut on p. [11] mis-identified in tirage statement as wood engraving.
An hommage to Matisse, with essays and poems by Aragon, Maurice Blanchard, Georges Hugnet, Paul Eluard, René Char, and others, illustrated with some of the artist's studies for Fleurs du Mal.
Text and illustrations printed by Draeger frères ; lithographs printed by Mourlot frères.
"Il a été tiré neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf exemplaires, dont quarante-neuf signés par Henri Matisse numérotés de I à XLIX et neuf cent cinquante...numérotés de 1 à 950"--Verso of added t.p.
Library has copy no. 227.
With a printer's slip, stamped with 227, laid in between p. 20 and linocut guard sheet.
On cover and added t.p.: Pierre à feu.
Original illustrations: 1 linocut and 1 lithograph; Matisse's cut-out reproduced lithographically on cover (cf. Cowat).
Linocut on p. [11] mis-identified in tirage statement as wood engraving.
An hommage to Matisse, with essays and poems by Aragon, Maurice Blanchard, Georges Hugnet, Paul Eluard, René Char, and others, illustrated with some of the artist's studies for Fleurs du Mal.
Text and illustrations printed by Draeger frères ; lithographs printed by Mourlot frères.
"Il a été tiré neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf exemplaires, dont quarante-neuf signés par Henri Matisse numérotés de I à XLIX et neuf cent cinquante...numérotés de 1 à 950"--Verso of added t.p.
Library has copy no. 227.
With a printer's slip, stamped with 227, laid in between p. 20 and linocut guard sheet.
Description
86 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Provenance
Frances and Michael Baylson Collection.
Binding
Cream decorated wrappers, from an aquatic-themed gouache cut-out by Matisse.
Classification
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Department