Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1920
Stéphane Mallarmé was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.
Raoul Dufy was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textile as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture and a planner of public spaces.
Original illustrated edition, number 596 of 1000 copies on vélin Lafuma de Voiron, from a total edition of 1110; 4to, (29.8 x 22.8 cm); 25 full-page pochoir colour illustrations by Raoul Dufy, vignette to title page, some offsetting, blue suede endpapers; pictorial blue morocco by Susan Allix, with blue, green, yellow, red, orange and grey overlays, boards slightly marked, presented in a blue portfolio box with Susan Allix ephemera loosely inserted; [53]pp.
Talvart & Place XIII; Carteret II, 101.
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