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Auction archive: Lot number 11

BERNANOS, Georges. Jeanne, relapse et sainte. Lithographies en couleurs de Jacques Vallery-Radot. Paris: Le Livre Contemporain, printed by Pierre Bouchet at Boulogne-sur-Seine, 1951.

Auction 01.05.1996
1 May 1996
Estimate
£25,000 - £35,000
ca. US$37,874 - US$53,024
Price realised:
£27,600
ca. US$41,813
Auction archive: Lot number 11

BERNANOS, Georges. Jeanne, relapse et sainte. Lithographies en couleurs de Jacques Vallery-Radot. Paris: Le Livre Contemporain, printed by Pierre Bouchet at Boulogne-sur-Seine, 1951.

Auction 01.05.1996
1 May 1996
Estimate
£25,000 - £35,000
ca. US$37,874 - US$53,024
Price realised:
£27,600
ca. US$41,813
Beschreibung:

BERNANOS, Georges. Jeanne, relapse et sainte. Lithographies en couleurs de Jacques Vallery-Radot. Paris: Le Livre Contemporain, printed by Pierre Bouchet at Boulogne-sur-Seine, 1951. 4° (323 x 248mm). Printed in blue and black. 22 coloured lithographs, eight full-page, all after Vallery-Radot, extra-illustrated with an original watercolour drawing, a tirage à part of five of the illustrations and various related ephemeral items. BINDING BY ROSE ADLER, dated 1953, finished by A.Jeanne, smooth calf, the upper halves of both covers and the spine white, the lower halves black, the upper cover with an inlaid semi-abstract design in variously coloured morocco and calf, striated and pointillé iridium foil, some sections in deeply impressed gold, three of them inlaid in white morocco forming the monogram JA (Jeanne d'Arc), repeated three times on the lower cover, the flat spine lettered in white, black, gilt and iridium, doublures of black suede, first endleaves of light-blue suede backed by a light wood veneer, the second endleaves of the same material, original wrappers bound in, edges silvered with iridium (upper section of spine very slightly discoloured), original calf-backed and edged chemise and slipcase, signed on front pastedown: inv. Rose Adler 1953, and on lower pastedown: A.Jeanne dor. Provenance : Albert Malle. ONE OF ROSE ADLER'S GREATEST BINDINGS. The design, unusually, does seem to echo the text: the black sections perhaps suggest the gable-ends of medieval Rouen, the swirling inlays the fires in which Jeanne d'Arc perished. The edition is limited to 130 copies, this number 23, printed for Albert Malle, a vice-president of Le Livre Contemporain . To this copy has been added: 1) the tirage-à-part of five of the full-page plates, four of them with their colour progressions, with special title Jeanne relapse et sainte , one of ten copies; 2) facsimile of the three-page letter by Bernanos to Vallery-Radot, 19 February, 1936, in which he first mentions the project of having his book illustrated by him, one of fifty copies; 3) invitation to, and menu of, the General Assembly; 4) a 4pp list of the original drawings for the illustrations, the tirages-à-part and the facsimile to be auctioned on that occasion, with prices realized and names of buyers in the hand of M.Malle; 5) the original drawing Vraiment trop vous me chargez for p.10 of Jeanne d'Arc before her judges.

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
1 May 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

BERNANOS, Georges. Jeanne, relapse et sainte. Lithographies en couleurs de Jacques Vallery-Radot. Paris: Le Livre Contemporain, printed by Pierre Bouchet at Boulogne-sur-Seine, 1951. 4° (323 x 248mm). Printed in blue and black. 22 coloured lithographs, eight full-page, all after Vallery-Radot, extra-illustrated with an original watercolour drawing, a tirage à part of five of the illustrations and various related ephemeral items. BINDING BY ROSE ADLER, dated 1953, finished by A.Jeanne, smooth calf, the upper halves of both covers and the spine white, the lower halves black, the upper cover with an inlaid semi-abstract design in variously coloured morocco and calf, striated and pointillé iridium foil, some sections in deeply impressed gold, three of them inlaid in white morocco forming the monogram JA (Jeanne d'Arc), repeated three times on the lower cover, the flat spine lettered in white, black, gilt and iridium, doublures of black suede, first endleaves of light-blue suede backed by a light wood veneer, the second endleaves of the same material, original wrappers bound in, edges silvered with iridium (upper section of spine very slightly discoloured), original calf-backed and edged chemise and slipcase, signed on front pastedown: inv. Rose Adler 1953, and on lower pastedown: A.Jeanne dor. Provenance : Albert Malle. ONE OF ROSE ADLER'S GREATEST BINDINGS. The design, unusually, does seem to echo the text: the black sections perhaps suggest the gable-ends of medieval Rouen, the swirling inlays the fires in which Jeanne d'Arc perished. The edition is limited to 130 copies, this number 23, printed for Albert Malle, a vice-president of Le Livre Contemporain . To this copy has been added: 1) the tirage-à-part of five of the full-page plates, four of them with their colour progressions, with special title Jeanne relapse et sainte , one of ten copies; 2) facsimile of the three-page letter by Bernanos to Vallery-Radot, 19 February, 1936, in which he first mentions the project of having his book illustrated by him, one of fifty copies; 3) invitation to, and menu of, the General Assembly; 4) a 4pp list of the original drawings for the illustrations, the tirages-à-part and the facsimile to be auctioned on that occasion, with prices realized and names of buyers in the hand of M.Malle; 5) the original drawing Vraiment trop vous me chargez for p.10 of Jeanne d'Arc before her judges.

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
1 May 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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