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189212214150 dessins. Préface de Alexandre Dumas fils. 1/2 chagrin tabac à coins, doslong orné, filets dorés mors et coins, tête or. Ex-libris Durand-Auzias. Très bon Paris Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies 1892 1 volume in-4°
188990978Tresse et Stock 1889 Tresse & Stock, 1889, 230 p., broché, première édition après 25 exemplaires numérotés, dos en mauvais état, des rousseurs sur la couverture et les gardes, sinon intérieur propre.
187718285Paris: Vollard. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1877. Non-Book. This is a very rare opportunity to buy an original etching by Degas made from the original Canceled Plate. The engraving measures 3" x 3.25" and is presented framed. The overall size of the framed piece is 16" x 13". This is from the cancelled plate. Soft ground etching drypoint and roulette In very good condition apart from a little toning around margin edges. From an edition of 150 impressions printed by Vollard after the artist's death. Only four lifetime impressions of this plate have been found. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston identified four proofs from the 1st and 2nd states and they were unable to locate any examples of the third fourth or fifth states. This is a very rare etching. ; 3.25" x 3" . Vollard unknown
187084728Paris s. d. [années 1870] | 10.80 x 17.10 cm | trois pages sur un feuillet double
187084728Paris 1870. Fine. An opera painting travels to London; Degas greets his close friend James Tissot Paris s. d. années 1870 10.80 x 17.10 cm trois pages sur un feuillet double Autograph letter dated and signed by Edgar Degas addressed to the dealer Charles Deschamps director of Durand-Ruels London branch. Three pages in ink on a bifolium. Minor marginal tears not affecting the text folds from mailing. Recently returned from New Orleans Degas writes to his London dealer to announce the imminent arrival of a delicate composition of dancers Le Foyer de la danse à lOpéra de la rue Le Peletier now held at the Musée dOrsay: ""In the meantime you will receive the little picture you saw in progress and which you had the idea of selling to Mr. Huth - May you succeed! . As for the price it seems to me that £150 to £200 is fair"" Deschamps fulfilled the painters wishes and sold the painting to Louis Huth financier and patron of Whistler for £140. The canvas would later enter the distinguished collection of Isaac de Camondo. Degas turned towards London at a time when the English art market offered relief from the collapse that followed the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. He placed great hopes in this expanding British market fuelled by lucrative blockbuster exhibitions drawing millions of visitors; Degass canvases were shown in eight exhibitions of the Société des Artistes Français. Although he often mentions financial difficulties in his correspondence ""At the end of the month I have quite a lot to pay. If some money came in I would be delighted . - Take care of me my dear Deschamps I would be most obliged - Tell me also if the season is not too far advanced. I fear it is"" his career across the Channel was flourishing and his sales profitable. The painter does not fail to salute the ""French colony"" of expatriate artists Giuseppe de Nittis and his close friend James Tissot whose financial success provided Degas with an example of how effectively a French painters work could be marketed in England. Unlike Tissot however Degas refused to adapt to market taste focusing instead on defending the Impressionist cause in France and abroad. He also devotes a passage to a voracious collector of his works the baritone Jean-Baptiste Faure patron of his celebrated series of canvases on the Paris Opéra and owner of Manets Déjeuner sur lherbe: ""I ought to have been in London some time ago according to what I said. I am not there because the picture for Jean-Baptiste Faure is not finished and I would not like to meet him there without being able to give him better news and I hardly have time to dawdle if I want not to arrive on the 1st of September with nothing to deliver to him"". Ironically Faure would later reproach Degas for leaving his canvases unfinished ! and even sue him a few years afterwards. A rare and exceptional letter tracing the history of one of Degass celebrated works and his dealings with dealers and collectors on the eve of the first Impressionist exhibition to be held the following year. ""My dear Deschamps I ought to have been in London some time ago according to what I said. I am not there because the picture for Jean-Baptiste Faure is not finished and I would not like to meet him there without being able to give him better news and I hardly have time to dawdle if I want not to arrive on the 1st of September with nothing to deliver to him - He is leaving London on the 18th or 19th I know that - Perhaps at the end of the month a little earlier however I will come to see you as well as the French colony. But nothing is less certain. In the meantime you will receive the little picture you saw in progress and which you had the idea of selling to Mr. Huth - May you succeed! At the end of the month I have quite a lot to pay. If some money came in I would be delighted - As for the price it seems to me that £150 to £200 is fair - I would like to add two other pieces a little vaporous - I am worki unknown
1895Degas4<p><strong>DELACROIX DEGAS Edgar 1834-1917</strong></p><p>Autograph letter signed <em>"Degas"</em> to collector Montagnac<br />Np 27 June 1895 2 pages in-8 oblong on laid paper in bespoke leather sleeve.<br />Fold marks previous and discreet tape repair on verso</p><p><strong>Degas collector acquires a painting by Delacroix in exchange for three of his pastels of dancers as currency</strong></p><p><em>" Cher Monsieur Montagnac<br />Je reçois votre lettre ce matin et le tableau </em>de Delacroix <em>arrive à 2h. Donc il est convenu que je vous achète ce portrait du baron Schwiter douze mille francs et que <strong>je vous paie ainsi : trois pastels de moi.</strong> Je transcris votre lettre du reste j'y copie : <strong>Deux de ces pastels représenteront des groupes de danseuses et le troisième une ou deux blanchisseuses. Pour ce dernier je me réserve la faculté de les remplacer par des danseuses si ça m'allait mieux</strong>.<br />Si vous pouvez me dites-vous me livrer un de ces pastels d'ici un ou deux mois vous me feriez le plus grand plaisir. Vous ajoutez : Il est entendu que les 3 pastels seront terminés pour l'hiver prochain. Tout cela est bien et j'y souscris.<br />Au revoir cher Monsieur et recevez mes remercîments.<br />Degas "</em></p><p>A shrewd collector Degas had assembled a remarkable collection of paintings from the Renaissance to Romanticism including Greco Ingres Courbet Delacroix etc. Of the latter of which he owned thirteen paintings it is the portrait of Baron Schwiter that is here the object of his lusts.<br />This full-length portrait of Baron Louis de Schwiter 1805-1889 an important collector and familiar of Delacroix was painted in 1827. Refused by the jury of the Salon the same year it is now kept at the National Gallery in London which had acquired it during the dispersal of Degas' property after his passing in 1917.</p><p><u>Provenance:</u><br />Bibliothèque Bernard Loliée</p>
188568398Dieppe 1er septembre 1885 | 22.40 x 17.70 cm | 4 pages sur un double feuillet
188568398Dieppe 1885. Fine. Dieppe 1er septembre 1885 22.40 x 17.70 cm 4 pages sur un double feuillet Unpublished autograph letter signed Dieppe 1 September 1885 22.4 x 17.7 cm one folded sheet under custom slipcase Unpublished signed autograph letter from Edgar Degas to an unknown correspondent. 4 pages in black ink on one folded sheet. Central fold inherent to the way the letter was folded.his letter is presented in a chemise and case with paper boards decorated with abstract motifs the spine of the chemise in green morocco pastedowns and endpapers of green suede slipcase signed by Thomas Boichot. A handsome unpublished letter testimony to Degas' other great passion after dance: song.he Parisian premiere of Ernest Rayer's Wagnerian opera Sigurd took place on 12 June 1885 at the Opera de Paris. Degas overcome by the performance of the singer Rose Caron saw the piece thirty-seven times: «I still love Sigurd and I like it more and more. I have never seen Reyer except once in the street. And I made a point of telling him of the admiration it provoked in me far more immediately than in someone who being neither maid nor washerwoman was worthy of some consideration.» Degas paid homage to the beauty of Rose Caron in Sigurd by doing two drawings on fans today in private hands in the US.Properly obsessed by this «admirable work that did him so much good that he could not get over» the painter asked his famous neighbor to play him the score on the piano: «The young Jacques-Emile Blanche our neighbor plays it to me every day in place of your wife.»he letter closes with a lyrical description of Mont-Saint-Michel of which Degas had made several drawings: «Have you ever seen Mont-Saint-Michel Could we go and spend a few days there together sometime It's so pretty so charming. In one month I've been twice. The big tides at the end of September will take me back once more.» Degas' passion for opera is the subject of an exhibition for the 350th birthday of the Paris Opera open from 24 September 2019 to 19 January 2020 at the Musée d'Orsay. hardcover
19003912Un volume in-4°, broché, couverture imprimée illustrée d'une vignette de l'artiste . - 109 lithographies originales de Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). Toutes les lithographies sont tirées en rose sanguine et disposées librement, transcrivant avec sensualité la poésie de Verlaine en forme et en couleurs ; il s’en dégage une profonde harmonie entre le texte et l’illustration. Élégamment imprimé en Garamond, comme le seront plus tard Les Fêtes galantes illustrées par Laprade, l’ouvrage marque le début de la grande aventure éditoriale d’Ambroise Vollard. Édition : 230 exemplaires numérotés sur Chine ou Hollande. - "Ceci n’est pas un traité de géométrie !" Il existe deux états de la couverture de Parallèlement : Vollard dut en effet remplacer la vignette de l'Imprimerie nationale à l’effigie de la République française par un dessin de Bonnard (ainsi notre exemplaire). Ce remaniement était intervenu à la suite d’une interpellation à la Chambre au sujet de la présence de l'effigie de la République sur un livre jugé « licencieux ». Une fois l’ouvrage imprimé, on s’était avisé que Parallèlement n'était pas un traité de géométrie… (Pierre Berès). Exemplaire numéroté sur vélin de Hollande, conservé broché, tel que paru et en excellent état de conservation.
188966900Boussod, Valadon & Cie | Paris s. d. [1889] | 41 x 59 cm | en feuilles sous portefeuille de l'éditeur
188966900Paris: Boussod Valadon & Cie 1889. Fine. Boussod Valadon & Cie Paris s. d. 1889 41 x 59 cm en feuilles sous portefeuille de l'éditeur First and only edition published of this remarkable set of 15 original lithographs from the post-impressionist painter George William Thornley only 100 copies printed. Publisher's portfolio bound in boards very skilfully restored. 14 of the 15 lithographs are printed in colour black blue green mauve and different browns on broadside China paper laid on pale blue thick paper one is directly printed on thick paper. All except the last bear the stamp of Thornley's signature with the words Chez Mrs Boussod & Valadon 19 Bd Montmartre and Imp. Becquet frères à Paris. In 1888 George William Thornley was commissioned to produce a series of lithographs based on the works of Degas. These lithographs go well beyond the reproduction quality of the renowned publisher. They also demonstrate the high level of collaboration between Degas and Thornley. Thornley first selected the works to publish made the necessary changes in the preparatory drawings and even interrupted the printing at times so that improvements could be made. The importance of Thornley's engravings in Degas' work is particularly highlighted by the book dedicated to Degas by JS Boggs and published by the Metropolitan Museum of New York; a publication in which we find several of the engravings presented in the collection. Chantal and Guy Heytens We have only identified two copies in libraries: one in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the other in the Institut national d'histoire de l'art. Boussod, Valadon & Cie hardcover
