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Henri Matisse / portrait dessiné par lui-même et gravé sur bois par Jules Germain.

Accession number
PML 195628
Creator
Sembat, Marcel, 1862-1922.
Published
Paris : Éditions de la "Nouvelle revue française," 1920.
Credit line
Gift of Frances and Michael Baylson, 2010.
Notes
Special limited edition of: Henri Matisse: trente reproductions de peintures et dessins précédées d'une étude critique par Marcel Sembat; printed on laid paper with different wrappers.
With an added plate tipped to inner margin of t.p. of Jules Germain's woodcut of Matisse's self-portrait from title page, printed on Chine, signed HM. on the block, and signed and numbered by Germain in pencil.
The first monograph devoted entirely to Matisse.
On spine: Exemplaire sur papier de pur fil.
Series title on front wrapper lacks definite article.
Series edited by Roger Allard.
"il a été de cet ouvrage: 150 exemplaires numérotés (dont dix hors commerce) sur beau papier couché, avec une épreuve sur Chine du portrait signée par l'artiste"--T.p. verso.
Library has copy no. 3.
Some leaves unopened and uncut in library's copy.
Description
63 p. : ill., plates ; 16 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Library's copy shows vertical offset type visible on added woodcut plate.
Provenance
Frances and Michael Baylson Collection.
Binding
White pictorial wrappers, with title printed in red and palette vignette printed in black on front cover.
Classification
Department