Description
Leger (Fernand) Cirque, one of 300 copies on velin d'Arches (this copy out of series and unsigned), lithographed throughout by Leger including 33 illustrations in colour (all but one full-page, 3 double-page), and 42 in black and white (some double-page), some very light offsetting as usual, loose as issued in original lithographed pictorial wrappers, uncut, glacine wrapper, original board folder and slip-case, [The Artist and the Book 164; From Manet to Hockney 123], folio, Paris, Teriade, 1950.
⁂ A magnificent work, produced entirely by Leger. This copy from the Margaret Winkelman collection, with bookplate (sold at Bloomsbury Auctions, June 2007 £12,000).
Lot 411
Leger (Fernand) Cirque, one of 300 copies, Paris, Teriade, 1950.
Estimate: £8,000 - 12,000
Description
Leger (Fernand) Cirque, one of 300 copies on velin d'Arches (this copy out of series and unsigned), lithographed throughout by Leger including 33 illustrations in colour (all but one full-page, 3 double-page), and 42 in black and white (some double-page), some very light offsetting as usual, loose as issued in original lithographed pictorial wrappers, uncut, glacine wrapper, original board folder and slip-case, [The Artist and the Book 164; From Manet to Hockney 123], folio, Paris, Teriade, 1950.
⁂ A magnificent work, produced entirely by Leger. This copy from the Margaret Winkelman collection, with bookplate (sold at Bloomsbury Auctions, June 2007 £12,000).