Accession number
PML 198742.7
Creator
Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907.
Published
[Paris]: [Jean Loize?], [1942?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray, 2021.
Notes
Woodcut presumably restruck in 1942 by Jean Loize from the original block, engraved by Jarry in spring, 1896.
Title derived from caption to the image in the first edition of Ubu roi (Paris: Mercure de France, 1896).
Title derived from caption to the image in the first edition of Ubu roi (Paris: Mercure de France, 1896).
Description
1 print : woodcut ; image: 144 x 92 mm, on sheet: 151 x 102 mm
Provenance
Tipped into the first flyleaf of a copy of Ubu roi (Paris: Mercure de France, 1897), formerly owned by Paul Eluard, later in the Collection Geneviève & Jean-Paul Kahn, acquired at their sale at Pierre Bergé, 18.vi.21, lot 9.
Summary
A depiction of Jarry's character Père Ubu printed on Japanese-style paper from the block used in the first appearance of Ubu roi in Livre d'art no. 2 (1896), p. 25.
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