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Lot 22

Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019 9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$700 - 900
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$882
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DUFY, Raoul (1877-1953), illustrator. -- LA VARENDE, Jean de (1887-1959). Les Centaures et les Jeux. Paris: Pierre de Tartas, 1957.


Folio (367 x 265 mm). 36 original woodcuts, 12 with pochoir (6 of which are hors-texte, of these 4 in full color, one with pochoir in black, 1 with pochoir in blue-gray). Loose as issued in original publisher's printed wrappers; original cloth folding case (spine and portion of sides sunned, short splits to upper joint). 
 
LIMITED EDITION, one of 180 copies on vélin d'Arches, an out-of-series copy lettered "D" and signed by Pierre de Tartas, the publisher, opposite the justification page. Dufy completed the plates just months before his death, and the work includes an endorsement from his widow. 

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