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Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, 1928.

Price: $400.00

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First edition, issue sur Papier d'Arches, limited to 60 numbered copies copy #59, with an original etching by Marcel Gromaire. pp. xix, [iii], xxviii(plates), [iii], illustrated with 28 full-page, black-and-white plates, reproducing artwork by Marcel Gromaire; and with an original etching by Marcel Gromaire; Marcel Gromaire's pencil signature is just faintly visible (signature is barely visible, in the lower margin, beneath the original etching). 1 vols. 4to (11-1/4 x 9 inches). WITH ORIGINAL ETCHING BY MARCEL GROMAIRE. Printed wrappers. A fine copy in publisher's unprinted glassine dust wrapper; glassine has short tear on spine and front panel, else bright and crisp.

Item #338360

Uncommon in this issue, limited to 60 copies 'sur Papier d'Arches' [of the 46 OCLC worldwide holdings, none are described as this issue, with an original etching].
Marcel Gromaire (1892-1971), French painter and designer, studied at the Académie de la Palette and the Académie Ranson. In 1911, he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. A soldier during WWI, he was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Following the war he returned to painting, and writing about art and the cinema; he was influenced by Flemish painting and tapestry, German Expressionism, and Fernand Léger. After 1920, he exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and at the Salon des Indépendants, with his first one-man show, in Paris, at the Galerie La Licorne (in 1921), and he was affiliated with the gallery’s owner, Maurice Girardin, until 1932. Girardin donated his vast collection of Gromaire’s work to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The first monograph about him was published in 1925. In the United States, his work is represented in The Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (16 works), Harvard University Art Museums, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Dallas Art Museum, etc.