Limited Edition, Signed By Henri Matisse
Ulysses (LEC). With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
GILBERT, Stuart, [contributor]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. MATISSE, Henri, [illustrator]. Ulysses (LEC). With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
Full Description:
[MATISSE, Henri, illustrator]. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935.
Limited to 1,500 numbered copies, signed by Henri Matisse, this being number 956. Quarto
(11 5/8 x 9 inches; 295 x 230 mm). xv, [3], 363, [7, blank] pp. Twenty-six plates by Matisse, consisting of six etchings, printed by hand, and twenty lithographic drawings, made as studies for the etchings, printed on thin colored papers.
Original full brown buckram, embossed in gilt on front board and spine from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Top edge speckled, bottom edge uncut. Spine gilt just a bit darkened. Front inner with hair splint but firm. Small bookseller stickers on front and rear endpapers. With the publisher's original printed slipcase. Slipcase with some minor wear along edges. Still, a near fine copy.
"One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse's only use of this medium) record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit, if less spontaneous, compositions." (The Artist and the Book).
“The text of Ulysses is printed in double columns throughout; the running title and pagination are printed in brown. The six etchings by Henri Matisse with their accompanying sketches on yellow and blue paper depict the Calypso, Aeolus, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe, and Ithaca episodes. These six etchings were issued separately by the Print Club, New York, 1935, in an edition of 150 copies. The text of this edition is based on that of the Odyssey Press edition (A20), second impression” (Slocum and Cahoon).
The Artist & the Book 197. LEC bibliography 71. Slocum and Cahoon A22.
HBS 69620.
$6,500.
Price: $6,500.00
Item #69620