Max Jacob - Visions des souffrances et de la mort de Jésus Christ fils de Dieu.‎ [1/300 sur Annam] - 1928

Original edition of this beautiful collection consisting of forty drawings by Max Jacob (1876-1944) on the Passion of Christ, an autoportrait, and the author's captions reproduced in facsimile.

First issue of the Maurice Sachs collection, limited to 300 copies. This one, printed on Annam de Rives, is numbered 267.

On leaves, in a padded cover, half-ebony chagrin binding, title on the spine and date on the back, with a matching box.
In very good condition despite the cover being fragile with small tears. Double casing in excellent condition, impeccable interior. A fine example.

Max Jacob, born Max Jacob Alexandre on July 12, 1876, in Quimper, and died on March 5, 1944, in Drancy, was a French modernist poet, novelist, and painter.
A precursor of Dada and Surrealism without adhering to them, he revolutionized French poetry from 1917 with his free and burlesque verse, after abandoning his career as a journalist with Alphonse Allais and forming close ties with Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin, André Salmon, and Amedeo Modigliani. An artist mainly living from his painting, which has been associated with the École de Paris, he became an influential and prolific letter writer from 1934 onwards, particularly to Jean Cocteau. His aesthetic theory, beyond the mysticism that animates his writing, served as the foundation of the École de Rochefort in 1941.

Max Jacob
Visions of the suffering and death of Jesus, the Son of God. Forty drawings.
Paris, at Quatre chemins, 1928
in-8 (21 x 16cm); 41 drawings