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Lot 72
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D'ARTISTE] -- [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- JOYCE, James (1882-1941). -- MATISSE, Henri (1869-1954), illustrator. Ulysses. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935.
4to. 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings. Original publisher’s brown cloth, upper cover and spine gilt-decorated (spine slightly rubbed); original board slipcase, printed paper label on spine.
LIMITED EDITION, number 1080 of 1,500 copies SIGNED BY MATISSE. George Macy commissioned Matisse to provide as many etchings as he could for a $5,000 commission. He chose to illustrate six episodes from Homer’s Odyssey: Calypso, Aelous, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe, and Ithaca; when asked why he did not illustrate episodes from Joyce’s novel, he responded that he hadn’t read it. The American Livre de Peintre, 32; The Artist and the Book, 197; Slocum and Calhoun A22.