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Apollinaire, Guillaume. Peintures de Léopold Survage. Dessins et Aquarelles d’Irène Lagut. Première exposition des „Soirées de Paris“. Catalogue avec deux préfaces.

With 13 calligrammes in facsimile. 4 leaves (folded). 4to. – Paris, Bongard, 1917.

Edition originale. With two forewords by G. Apollinaire, one regarding the life and the work of the Cubist Léopold Survage (1879–1968), the other regarding the art of Irène Lagut (1893–1994). In 1917, Apollinaire, André Salmon and some friends tried a revival of the monthly periodical „Soirées de Paris“ which was founded by themselves in 1912 and given up in 1914. – Traces of vertical and horizontal folds. Minor dustsoiling. Good in all. – Best.-Nr. 25690