BRAQUE, Georges -- HESIODE. Théogonie . Paris: Maeght, 1955. 2° (440 x 326mm). Original frontispiece colour etching, and 16 full-page etchings printed on Auvergne paper blind-stamped 'GB'. Loose as issued in original wrappers with a varnished aquatint by Braque, original chemise and slipcase (very light wear at extremities). ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES SIGNED BY BRAQUE, this one copy number 89. It was the Parisian dealer Ambroise Vollard who prompted Braque in the early 1930s to create a livre d'artiste. Braque chose to illustrate Hesiod's Theogony and became deeply involved with the project, producing countless preparatory drawings, and creating a series of etchings that stand as milestones of 20th-century printmaking. However, the notoriously meticulous master printer Galanis, to whom the publication was entrusted, had still not finished the book at the time of Vollard's death in 1939. Aimé Maeght took up the project and finally published the Theogony in 1955. The Art of the French Book 44; Blaizot, Bibliothèque Paul Bonet 250 ('le plus grands des livres de Braque'); Valier 23; Johnson, Vollard 171.
BRAQUE, Georges -- HESIODE. Théogonie . Paris: Maeght, 1955. 2° (440 x 326mm). Original frontispiece colour etching, and 16 full-page etchings printed on Auvergne paper blind-stamped 'GB'. Loose as issued in original wrappers with a varnished aquatint by Braque, original chemise and slipcase (very light wear at extremities). ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES SIGNED BY BRAQUE, this one copy number 89. It was the Parisian dealer Ambroise Vollard who prompted Braque in the early 1930s to create a livre d'artiste. Braque chose to illustrate Hesiod's Theogony and became deeply involved with the project, producing countless preparatory drawings, and creating a series of etchings that stand as milestones of 20th-century printmaking. However, the notoriously meticulous master printer Galanis, to whom the publication was entrusted, had still not finished the book at the time of Vollard's death in 1939. Aimé Maeght took up the project and finally published the Theogony in 1955. The Art of the French Book 44; Blaizot, Bibliothèque Paul Bonet 250 ('le plus grands des livres de Braque'); Valier 23; Johnson, Vollard 171.
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