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Paul Colin (1892-1986)

Lot 155
30.07.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 155 | Paul Colin (1892-1986)
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£ 7 000 – 10 000
COLIN, Paul (1892-1986). Le Tumulte Noir. Paris: Editions d'Art Succès, 1927.

The complete portfolio, limited to 500 copies, of Paul Colin’s fine lithographs heightened with pochoir, published in tribute ‘to Josephine Baker and the other African American performers who had captivated the Parisian public during les années folles, those “crazy years” known in America as the Roaring Twenties’ (Dalton and Gates). Le Tumulte Noir is not without problematic racial overtones, yet its imagery also expresses ‘the communal sigh of relief African Americans exhaled in France […] There, segregation was illegal. Hotels, restaurants, and theaters were open to all, regardless of race. African Americans could dance all night with, and make love to, French women and men, and no one even blinked’. With this work, Colin captured the spirit and movement of the wild dance, the Charleston, newly imported from the United States of America, and the syncopated rhythms of a new art form called jazz. Karen C. C. Dalton and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ‘Josephine Baker and Paul Colin: African American Dance Seen through Parisian Eyes’. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Summer, 1998).

Folio (495 x 323mm). Half-title, 42 lithographic plates heightened with pochoir and 2 lithographic calligrams on 21 single-page and one double-page sheet, one lithographic sheet of calligraphic text entitled 'Topic of the Day' (free endpapers with marginal stains, title with 2 very small marginal red ink stains, half-title with small marginal stain and a few minor nicks and creases at top- and fore-edge, 6 plates with very small marginal stain, double-page sheet and one single-sheet with tiny tears at fore-edge but without loss, 3 plates with very small and insignficant areas of marginal creasing, 'Topic of the Day' printed on thinner paper and creased and edges and torn, holed with loss to a few letters and repaired with tape at foot). Publisher's printed buff wrappers with red endpapers (spine with 190mm split at head and with small splits, abrasions and losses,front cover with small marginal staining at head, short tear at fore-edge, rear cover stained, extremities rubbed). Provenance: mathematical notation in ink at top corner of rear cover.
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