1  Édouard Manet – Charles Cros. Le Fleuve. 1874

Ausrufzeit : ca. 16:00 Uhr (ohne Gewähr)

Unnummeriertes »exemplair d’ auteurs« (handschriftlich statt Nummerierung), wie die 100 nummerierten Exemplare im Auflagenvermerk von Künstler und Verfasser signiert. – Auf getöntem holländischem Bütten. – Die Radierungen mit bräunlichem Plattenton, zwei in der Platte monogrammiert. – »It is not inaccurate to offer up Edouard Manet as the first practitioner of modern artists‘ books. In ›Le Fleuve‹ and ›Le Corbeau‹ (1875), Manet was less interested in simple illustration than the integration of image and text into a unified and fluent whole. The eight petite etchings in Le Fleuve […] are characterized by extremely abstracted imagery for their time. The advanced nature of Manet’s vision is indicated by the remarks of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti on receiving a copy of ›Le Corbeau‹, who wrote that it was ›by a French idiot named Manet, who certainly must be the greatest and most conceited ass who ever lived. A copy should be bought for every hypochondriacal ward in lunatic asylums. To view it without guffaw is impossible.‹ (Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Jane Morris: Their Correspondence […] 1976)« (Logan Collection 2001). – Vorblatt mit eigenhändiger Widmung »à Monsieur Romanelli souvenir S[uzanne] Manet« (1829–1906, niederländisch-französische Pianistin, Manets häufiges Modell und von 1823 bis zu seinem Tod dessen Ehefrau). – Sehr schönes Exemplar.

LC 2001 2. – Monod 3331. – Rauch 6. – Chapon, p. 277. – A&B 177. – CA IV, 128. – Skira 219

28,5 : 24,5 cm. 15, [1] Seiten. – Rücken und Ecken leicht berieben.

english description:
With eight etchings, within the text, one as a title vignette. Marbled cardboard binding with a black-gold spine label.

Unnumbered »exemplair d’auteurs« (handwritten instead of numbered), like the 100 numbered copies, signed by the artist and author in the edition’s note. – On tinted Dutch laid paper. – The etchings with a brownish plate tone, two monogrammed in the plate.
Spine and edges of the binding slightly rubed