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La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France

Title
La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France / Blaise Cendrars ; couleurs simultanées de Mme Delaunay-Terk.
Author
Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961.
Publication
Paris : Editions des hommes nouveaux, 1913.

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Additional Authors
  • Delaunay, Sonia.
  • Imprimerie Crété. prt
  • Atelier Richard.
Description
1 folded sheet : col. ill., map; 208 x 36 cm., folded to 10 x 18 cm.
Alternative Title
Transsibérien
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Livres d'artistes – France – 20th century.
  • Drawings – France – 20th century.
  • Gouaches – France – 20th century.
  • Stencils (Images) – France – 20th century.
  • Pochoir prints – France – 20th century.
Note
  • "Tirage de luxe ... De 1 à 8 pour les exemplaires parchemins. De 9 à 36 pour les exemplaires japon. De 37 à 150 pour les exemplaires simili japon"--Statement at beginning. Probably only 60 or fewer copies were actually completed; cf. Peyré.
  • The poem was subsequently published under title: Le Transsibérien.
  • Printed on one side of 4 sheets, each ca. 53 x 36 cm., pasted overlapping at top and bottom to form a single sheet, folded vertically in half, then accordion-folded to 22 sections.
  • Text printed by Imprimerie Crété, Corbeil. Cf. La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France ... genèse et dossier d'une polémique / Antoine Sidoti. Paris, 1987. p. 19-21. Pochoirs executed by Atelier Richard, Paris; cf. Peyré.
  • In 2 columns: on the left, the continuous ill. colored in gouache after pochoirs by Delaunay; on the right, the text of the poem, printed in 4 colors from 12 typefaces, with additional wash coloring from pochoirs in the blank spaces. For an approximately half-size reproduction on 2 folded leaves, cf. Sonia Delaunay: rythmes et couleurs / textes de Jacques Damase et al. 1971. p. 84-[91]. For discussion, cf. article by Burr Wallen in Arts magazine (New York), v. 54, no. 1 (Sept. 1979), p. 96-101.
  • Issued folded in parchment wrapper with additional painted ill. (wrapper lacking in this copy).
Indexed In (note)
  • Talvart & Place. Auteurs modernes
  • Castleman, R. Century of artists books
  • Peyré, Y. Peinture et poésie
Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 1913 03-320
OCLC
  • 40826315
  • NYPG03-B4194
Author
Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961.
Title
La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France / Blaise Cendrars ; couleurs simultanées de Mme Delaunay-Terk.
Imprint
Paris : Editions des hommes nouveaux, 1913.
Indexed In:
Talvart & Place. Auteurs modernes, II, p. 332, no. 4
Castleman, R. Century of artists books, p. 168-169
Peyré, Y. Peinture et poésie, 11, 11 contrepoint
Local Note
Spencer Coll. copy is no. 47, on "simili japon."
Spencer Coll. copy consists of the 4 sheets before assembly and folding, including margins above and below the printed and illustrated area. Sheets are partly untrimmed, ca. 57 cm. x 38-40 cm. Two have pinholes in upper and lower left margin. Another copy in this state, with variant coloring, is illustrated in Peyré, p. 87, fig. 53 (Peyré 11, contrepoint).
Provenance: Author's presentation copy, inscribed to Maître Jean Decloux, "21 juin 1938."
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Added Author
Delaunay, Sonia. Artist
Imprimerie Crété. Printer
Atelier Richard.
Decloux, Jean. Former owner
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 1913 03-320
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