Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Vanderpyl, Fritz René. Vlaminck, Maurice de. Voyages.

With 24 orig. woodcuts by Maurice de Vlaminck. (16) leaves incl. first and last blank. Large 4to. Orig. wrappers with woodcut on upper cover. – Paris, Galerie Simon (Daniel Henri Kahnweiler, 1920).

Édition originale. One of 90 numbered copies on papier de Hollande van Gelder of a total limited edition of 107 signed in the colophon by the author and the illustrator. “Vlaminck’s first illustrated book and one of the first books to bear the imprint of the Galerie Simon, under which Kahnweiler carried on after the war, using the name of his friend André Simon, a French national. Like his fellow Fauves, Dufy and Derain, Vlaminck also employed the woodcut for his first illustrations (though ten years later than those two colleagues). The broadly cut pictorial designs are similar to his painted landscapes” (Garvey). – The Artist and the Book 314; Carteret IV, 388 (“Édition estimée”); Rauch 90. – Fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 7616