Quatre Histoires de Blanc et Noir, published 1926

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Medium

unbound deluxe edition volume with wood engraved title page, text page, frontispiece (numbered 2), and 24 plates on moderately thick wove paper (numbered 3 through 26); a complete extra set of unnumbered proof impressions on J. Perrigot Arches wovepaper; two additional variant impressions of plates 14 and 20

Dimensions

page size: 32.9 x 25.1 cm (12 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
overall size: 33.4 x 25.9 cm (13 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

1999.72.1.a-eee

Artists / Makers

František Kupka (artist) Czech, 1871 - 1957

G. Kadar (printer) French

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Inscription

on colophon page, lower right in brown pencil: Kupka; by later hand, inside front wrapper in graphite: 9/30; by later hand, upper right front paper in graphite: 58 91 B 2139

Provenance

(Sims Reed, Ltd., London); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Sims Reed Limited