La Loïe Fuller

1904

Pierre Roche, Roger Marx (author)

Associated Names
Pierre Roche

Artist, French, 1855 - 1922

Roger Marx

Author, French, 1859 - 1913

The image consists of swirling lines and curvilinear shapes in soft pink and beige tones. There is text at the top that reads "LOÏE FULLER" and at the bottom "ROGER-MARX" and "PIERRE ROCHE".

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    unbound volume with gypsograph on frontispiece and 16 color gypsographs within the text; original engraved wrappers by Roche

  • Credit Line

    Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

  • Dimensions

    book: 26.5 × 20 × 1.2 cm (10 7/16 × 7 7/8 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.70.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Sims Reed Books, London, 101 Rare Books, no. 43); Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, Houston; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1982

  • Ray, Gordon N. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914. New York, 1982: 480, no. 368.

Inscriptions

in graphite upper center of first end-paper: NIE7 / [?] 12.500

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