Alfred de Musset / Yves Brayer [signé], Philippe Gonin - ‎Venise la Rouge [avec dessin original + envoi de l'artiste ; n°20/200 sur vélin] - 1939

Luxury edition created by Philippe Gonin, limited to only 200 numbered copies on handmade vellum.
Edition No. 20, signed by the artist—in red pencil on the justification.

The poem 'Venice the Red' by Alfred de Musset is here depicted by the painter, engraver, and lithographer YVES BRAYER.

Important illustration comprising 45 original lithographs and engravings in color, including 30 (15+15) diptychs on 15 bifolios measuring approximately 45 x 30 cm; and 15 original two-tone lithographs.

A special edition enriched with a large and magnificent original drawing signed in pencil by the artist, accompanied by a note 'to Professor Leuboullet, with all my sympathy...'. The drawing, created in pencil and ink on two panels (a diptych), depicts Venetian gondolas.

We also enclose the subscription prospectus and an illustrated postcard by the artist.

Although Musset and George Sand experienced passion in 1834 at the Hotel Danieli in Venice, this poem of 17 quatrains (the 12th and 16th are not included in our edition, so the 15 bifolios each contain one stanza on the first page) was written earlier, in 1828.

Author: Yves BRAYER / Alfred de MUSSET / Philippe GONIN
Venice the Red. Poem [...] illustrated by Yves Brayer, painter and engraver.
EDITOR: Paris, Philippe Gonin, 1939
In-4°. 33 x 26.5 cm; title and 30 double leaves.

In sheets, under cover, and in a lace-up folder.

Book in excellent condition.

Signed Yves BRAYER Original drawing 45 Lithographs Alfred de MUSSET Venice the Red edited by Philippe GONIN number 1939