[DENIS] — André GIDE (1869-1951). Le Voyage d'Urien . Paris: Librairie de l’art indépendant, 1893. In-8 carré (203 x 191 mm). Un bois sur la couverture et 30 lithographies originales en camaïeu de Maurice Denis Broché. ÉDITION ORIGINALE. Tirage à 301 exemplaires, celui-ci l’un des 300 sur Hollande, le n° 61. “After seeing Denis’ unpublished drawings for Sagesse in 1891, Gide requested him to illustrate the Voyage d ’ Urien , and the importance the author attached to the artist’s contribution is indicated by the title-page, which is headed ‘André Gide – Maurice Denis’. Here Denis achieved best his goal in book illustration, which he considered to be ‘the decoration of a book, without servitude to the text, but with an embroidery of arabesques on the pages, an accompaniment of expressive lines’. This little known item is a masterpiece of Art Nouveau, the style of the nineties to which the style of Denis made an important contribution” (Garvey, 76). “This is generally regarded as the first livre d’artiste illustrated by colour lithographs” ( From Manet to Hockney , 5). TRÈS BEL EXEMPLAIRE EN PARFAIT ÉTAT DU PREMIER LIVRE ILLUSTRÉ PAR MAURICE DENIS Talvart 4A.
[DENIS] — André GIDE (1869-1951). Le Voyage d'Urien . Paris: Librairie de l’art indépendant, 1893. In-8 carré (203 x 191 mm). Un bois sur la couverture et 30 lithographies originales en camaïeu de Maurice Denis Broché. ÉDITION ORIGINALE. Tirage à 301 exemplaires, celui-ci l’un des 300 sur Hollande, le n° 61. “After seeing Denis’ unpublished drawings for Sagesse in 1891, Gide requested him to illustrate the Voyage d ’ Urien , and the importance the author attached to the artist’s contribution is indicated by the title-page, which is headed ‘André Gide – Maurice Denis’. Here Denis achieved best his goal in book illustration, which he considered to be ‘the decoration of a book, without servitude to the text, but with an embroidery of arabesques on the pages, an accompaniment of expressive lines’. This little known item is a masterpiece of Art Nouveau, the style of the nineties to which the style of Denis made an important contribution” (Garvey, 76). “This is generally regarded as the first livre d’artiste illustrated by colour lithographs” ( From Manet to Hockney , 5). TRÈS BEL EXEMPLAIRE EN PARFAIT ÉTAT DU PREMIER LIVRE ILLUSTRÉ PAR MAURICE DENIS Talvart 4A.
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