Charles Baudelaire / Marcel Gromaire - Petits poëmes en prose. [1/300 sur vélin, exemplaire de Julien Luchaire] - 1926

Magnificent illustrated edition of Baudelaire's prose collection, adorned with 10 etchings engraved by Marcel Gromaire (1892-1971).

Limited edition of 380 copies. This one on Arches vellum, numbered 69.
Copy of Julien Luchaire, with a former handwritten gift signed by three people including Léon Algazi (1890-1971, composer and musicologist): [To Mr. Julien Luchaire, in memory of the evening of November 29, 1926]

Julien Luchaire, born Jean Marie Julien Luchaire on August 15, 1876, in Bordeaux, and died on May 12, 1962, in Paris, was a French writer, specializing in Italian literature and civilization.

Paperback, with a printed cover framed in black, with a red title. In good condition. Covers slightly creased with small brown stains on the first, spine creased and very slightly split. Interior clean and fresh, with some discreet signs of handling and a splash mark on the margin of page 15.

Beautiful in-quarto copy, untrimmed.

Marcel Gromaire (born July 24, 1892, in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, and died April 11, 1971, in Paris) was a French painter, engraver, decorator, illustrator, and carton maker. In 1947, he held his first exhibition at Louis Carré. Like Rouault or Dufy, Marcel Gromaire worked apart from groups and currents. A friend of Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger in his youth, he was, however, 'a student of no one.'


Charles Baudelaire / Marcel Gromaire
Small prose poems
Paris: Éditions des quatre chemins, (1926).
In-4 (28 x 22.5 cm); (2 ff.), 143 pages, (2 ff.), 10 plates.