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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Oct 11 @ 13:00UTC+1
LOUYS, Pierre.- Aphrodite. Moeurs antiques. Eaux-fortes originales en couleurs gravées par Édouard Chimot. Paris, Editions d'art de l' Intermédiaire du Bibliophile, 1929. In-4°. Relié par Grégoire Levitzky : plein maroquin lavallière, plats à larges cadres à motifs égyptiens mosaïqués en diverses couleurs sertis d'un listel de maroq. rouge et filets dorés, dos à 4 nerfs et caissons ornés comme les plats, doublures de maroquin vert tendre ornées de divers motifs égyptiens mosaïqués (fleurs de papyrus et ailes d'Horus) et de filets dorés, gardes volantes en soie peinte richement ornée (jeunes femmes inspirées par les hors-texte de Chimot dans des cadres de style égyptien), doubles gardes de papier marbré, tranches dorées, couv. et dos cons. Sous étui.
16 eaux-fortes en couleurs : frontispice, 1 grande en-tête de chapitre et 14 hors-texte. Ornements de style égyptien en rouge et noir en haut des pages et culs-de-lampes extraits de la collection égyptienne Champollion le jeune.
Tirage à 325 ex. num.; parmi les 100 sur japon impérial (1er tirage sur ce 4e pap.), un des 25 (n° 59) accompagnés de :
- 1 dessin original "en couleurs", aux crayons noir et estompe sanguine, signé, figurant une jeune femme nue,
- 1 suite à l'eau-forte pure sur japon impérial,
- 1 suite des gravures en noir avec remarques avant découpe des cuivres sur japon impérial.
Riche reliure décorée de Levitzky (Ukraine 1885 - post 1965 Paris), "connu pour ses reliures de luxe, par leur qualité d'exécution et l'originalité de leur décoration, souvent réalisée par le doreur Jules Fache" (cfr Fléty p. 113). 1000 1.200 Euros
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