Une Aventure d'Amour a Venise.
Édition illustrée d'aquarelles originales de Gerda Wegner.
Stock Code 98880
Paris, Le Livre du Bibliophile, Georges Briffaut, 1927
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Limited edition signed by artist Gerda Wegener
Gerda Wegener (1886 – 1940) was a Danish illustrator and painter best known for her erotic works. After moving to Paris in 1912, she became highly successful both as a painter and as illustrator for Vogue, La Vie Parisienne and Fantasio. Her work comes with a sensational backstory: Gerda's husband Einar, also a successful artist, posed as a model for many of her works dressed in women's clothing, and later underwent the world's first sex-change operation. The actress Alicia Vikander won an Oscar for her portrait of Gerda in the recent film adaptation of this story, Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl.
Limited edition, signed by the illustrator to Doctor Potel, on papier japon; large 4to, (27.5 x 21.5 cm); 27 wood engravings in-text by G. Aubert and 10 coloured etchings hors-texte by André Lambert all after original watercolours by Gerda Wegener, with an extra suite in black and yellow; original wrappers with covers, ink inscription to top left corner of cover, some wear to edges but internally fine.
Gerda Wegener (1886 – 1940) was a Danish illustrator and painter best known for her erotic works. After moving to Paris in 1912, she became highly successful both as a painter and as illustrator for Vogue, La Vie Parisienne and Fantasio. Her work comes with a sensational backstory: Gerda's husband Einar, also a successful artist, posed as a model for many of her works dressed in women's clothing, and later underwent the world's first sex-change operation. The actress Alicia Vikander won an Oscar for her portrait of Gerda in the recent film adaptation of this story, Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl.
Limited edition, signed by the illustrator to Doctor Potel, on papier japon; large 4to, (27.5 x 21.5 cm); 27 wood engravings in-text by G. Aubert and 10 coloured etchings hors-texte by André Lambert all after original watercolours by Gerda Wegener, with an extra suite in black and yellow; original wrappers with covers, ink inscription to top left corner of cover, some wear to edges but internally fine.
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