[Carroll, Lewis] [Black Sun Press, The] Laurencin, Marie. Illustrator's Hand-Finished Mock-Ups for "Alice in Wonderland"
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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Live / New York
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$4,000 -
6,000
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[Carroll, Lewis] [Black Sun Press, The] Laurencin, Marie. Illustrator's Hand-Finished Mock-Ups for "Alice in Wonderland"
Paris: The Black Sun Press, ca. 1930. A unique suite of six partially-lithographed prints on wove paper, each finished in green, pink, and blue colored pencil by the artist, Marie Laurencin, and signed by her in blue pencil below each image. Each with worn tissue guard; with an additional suite of six uncolored printer's proofs on Rives BFK paper, each image cancelled in stone, and each stamped and inscribed by the printer, E. Desjobert, dated 1930. In gilt-lined board portfolio, silk ties intact, boards unevenly toned, spine frayed and slightly worn. Publisher's printed prospectus laid in.
Illustrator Marie Laurencin's hand-finished mock-ups, created by her to assist with the printer's creation of color separation plates. This is one of the artist's most famous illustrated books and a memorable version of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland".
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
Provenance
From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
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