ID 627643
Los 154 | A Book of Cats being Twenty Drawings
Schätzwert
$ 60 000 – 80 000
Foujita’s most beloved work, “certainly one of the rarest and most desired books on cats in existence” (Kalda) With the additional suite of etchings. No. 491 of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Born and educated in Tokyo, Foujita emigrated to Paris where he became a leading member of the French avant-garde; a friend of Picasso and Modigliani, he counted Kiki de Montparnasse among his models. The languid etchings of felines in this work, accompanied by the prose-poetry of Michael Joseph, exemplify the signature hybrid Japanese-European style which earned him great acclaim. Sam Kalda, Of Cats and Men, p. 43.
Folio (325 x 250mm). 20 etchings bound in, plus the additional suite of 20 duplicate etchings (occasional, very minor fingersoiling). Original cloth, front cover and spine lettered in silver (spine sunned, light wear and soiling). Provenance: The Cat Book Center, New Rochelle (invoice, 14 January 1984).
| Künstler: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Angewandte Technik: | Bleistift |
| Künstler: | William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) |
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| Angewandte Technik: | Bleistift |
| Adresse der Versteigerung |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Vereinigtes Königreich | |
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