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Auction archive: Lot number 198

CENDRARS, BLAISE - SONIA DELAUNAY- LA PROSE DU TRANSSIBÉRIEN. PARIS: 1913. COPY #139 INSCRIBED TO MANUEL ORTIZ DE ZARATE

Estimate
US$200,000 - US$300,000
Price realised:
US$225,000
Auction archive: Lot number 198

CENDRARS, BLAISE - SONIA DELAUNAY- LA PROSE DU TRANSSIBÉRIEN. PARIS: 1913. COPY #139 INSCRIBED TO MANUEL ORTIZ DE ZARATE

Estimate
US$200,000 - US$300,000
Price realised:
US$225,000
Beschreibung:

cendrars, blaise - sonia delaunay LA PROSE DU TRANSSIBÉRIEN ET DE LA PETITE JEHANNE DE FRANCE. COULEURS SIMULTANÉES DE MME DELAUNAY-TERK. PARIS: EDITIONS DES HOMMES NOUVEAUX, 1913. 4 sheets folio (together 78 1/2 x 14 in; 1990 x 355 mm) accordion-folded. Complete with the original parchment wrapper painted by Sonia Delaunay Copy on "simili-Japon" paper, signed and numbered "139" in purple ink by Blaise Cendrars and inscribed in black ink by the poet to his friend, the Chilean painter Manuel Ortiz de Zarate: "A mon cher ami Ortiz de Zárate, fondateur de Buenos Aires. Pourquoi n'aères-tu pas la Rotonde. Noël 1916 B[laise].C[endrars]". The edition was supposed to be 150 copies (so if all the copies are put together, it should reach the high of the Eiffel Tower) but so far, only about 70 copies have been located. Small tear repaired at a fold, some water drops, Sonia Delaunay's (or Blaise Cendrars fingerprints on the upper part of the illustration, offsetting; Otherwise, an bright-colored copy in great condition.

Auction archive: Lot number 198
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

cendrars, blaise - sonia delaunay LA PROSE DU TRANSSIBÉRIEN ET DE LA PETITE JEHANNE DE FRANCE. COULEURS SIMULTANÉES DE MME DELAUNAY-TERK. PARIS: EDITIONS DES HOMMES NOUVEAUX, 1913. 4 sheets folio (together 78 1/2 x 14 in; 1990 x 355 mm) accordion-folded. Complete with the original parchment wrapper painted by Sonia Delaunay Copy on "simili-Japon" paper, signed and numbered "139" in purple ink by Blaise Cendrars and inscribed in black ink by the poet to his friend, the Chilean painter Manuel Ortiz de Zarate: "A mon cher ami Ortiz de Zárate, fondateur de Buenos Aires. Pourquoi n'aères-tu pas la Rotonde. Noël 1916 B[laise].C[endrars]". The edition was supposed to be 150 copies (so if all the copies are put together, it should reach the high of the Eiffel Tower) but so far, only about 70 copies have been located. Small tear repaired at a fold, some water drops, Sonia Delaunay's (or Blaise Cendrars fingerprints on the upper part of the illustration, offsetting; Otherwise, an bright-colored copy in great condition.

Auction archive: Lot number 198
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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