Rare book with original painting: Concert D’Ete. Limited edition, produced especially for Raoul Dufy. Paris: Flammarion, [1946]. Hardcover with slipcase, 9.25 x 11.5, 149 pages, in very good condition with some discoloration and scattered foxing throughout, and staining to slipcase. Dufy has painted two colorful butterflies on the title page, closely resembling his designs for the Bianchini-Ferier textile studio at Tournon, which used his artwork as the basis for highly elaborate printed fabrics. Throughout the book are 26 original text woodcuts by Maillol. The edition was limited to 250 numbered examples and 65 hors commerce, of which 15 copies were reserved for collaborators, 10 of which were on this fine ‘Lana’ paper. This particular copy was expressly printed for Dufy. Maillol was mortally injured in a 1944 car crash on a mountainous road while on his way to visit his friend Raoul Dufy, and this book was thus published posthumously. In his biography of Maillol, Waldemar George describes Concert D’Ete, ‘Maillol contrived in his wood-engravings…to ally wealth of instinctively powerful forms with a masterly economy in the means of expression.’ RR Auction COA.
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