Accession number
PML 195604
Creator
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954.
Published
Paris : [s.n.], 1946.
Credit line
Gift of Frances and Michael Baylson, 2010.
Notes
Introductory text by Aragon.
A 'souvenir' of Matisse's second, rejected attempt to illustrate Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal after his original illustrations were damaged by humidity.
Printed by Mourlot frères (cf. Duthuit).
Collation in Library's copy differs slightly from Duthuit: blank "intercalaire" and 1st lithograph inserted after 6th plate, not immediately following Aragon's text as intended; this sheet is also mis-folded so that lithograph appears on outside as p. [1] instead of p. [3].
"Cette suite de vingt-trois lithographies originales de Henri Matisse, précédée d'un texte inédit d'Aragon a été tirée à cinq exemplaires nominatifs non mis dans le commerce : le numéro I pour Henri Matisse, le numéro II pour Elsa Triolet et Aragon, le numéro III pour Fernand Mourlot, le numéro IV pour Lydia Delectorskaia, et le numéro V pour la Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet."
Library has copy no. II of V.
A 'souvenir' of Matisse's second, rejected attempt to illustrate Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal after his original illustrations were damaged by humidity.
Printed by Mourlot frères (cf. Duthuit).
Collation in Library's copy differs slightly from Duthuit: blank "intercalaire" and 1st lithograph inserted after 6th plate, not immediately following Aragon's text as intended; this sheet is also mis-folded so that lithograph appears on outside as p. [1] instead of p. [3].
"Cette suite de vingt-trois lithographies originales de Henri Matisse, précédée d'un texte inédit d'Aragon a été tirée à cinq exemplaires nominatifs non mis dans le commerce : le numéro I pour Henri Matisse, le numéro II pour Elsa Triolet et Aragon, le numéro III pour Fernand Mourlot, le numéro IV pour Lydia Delectorskaia, et le numéro V pour la Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet."
Library has copy no. II of V.
Description
[12] p., 23 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm
Provenance
Printed for Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon ; Frances and Michael Baylson Collection.
Binding
Unsewn folded sheets, as issued, in beige printed wrappers inside beige paper-covered chemise with "C.B." and "H.M." on spine, in beige paper slipcase.
Classification
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