Le Voyage d'Urien
Denis, Maurice. André Gide
Paris. Librairie de l'Art Indépendant. 1893
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An excellent copy of André Gide's 'Le Voyage d'Urien' with Maurice Denis' only original lithographs.
From the edition limited to 302 copies, with this one of 300 on hollande paper partially uncut.
Denis' lithographs for le Voyage d'Urien are the only lithographs he drew directly on the stone.
The three parts of Gide's text are 'Voyage sur ;'Océan Pathétique', untitled (a blankk leaf), and 'Voyage vers une Mer Glaciale'; tipped-in to the final blank is a leaf listing publications of the 'Librairie de l'Art Indépendant'.
'Gide wrote his Voyage under the influence of symbolism. The symbolic poets and writers were searching for 'fluidity', a word they constantly used, and rhythm and division into rhythmical units were the prime ingredients of their poetic form. The visual vocabulary of Denis was also infused with fluidity and rhythm and thus in harmony with Gide's text.' (Houghton Library 53).
'This little known item is a masterpiece of Art Nouveau, the style of the nineties to which the graphic work of Denis and the Nabis made an important contribution.' (The Artist and the Book).
[The Artist and the Book 76].
From the edition limited to 302 copies, with this one of 300 on hollande paper partially uncut.
Denis' lithographs for le Voyage d'Urien are the only lithographs he drew directly on the stone.
The three parts of Gide's text are 'Voyage sur ;'Océan Pathétique', untitled (a blankk leaf), and 'Voyage vers une Mer Glaciale'; tipped-in to the final blank is a leaf listing publications of the 'Librairie de l'Art Indépendant'.
'Gide wrote his Voyage under the influence of symbolism. The symbolic poets and writers were searching for 'fluidity', a word they constantly used, and rhythm and division into rhythmical units were the prime ingredients of their poetic form. The visual vocabulary of Denis was also infused with fluidity and rhythm and thus in harmony with Gide's text.' (Houghton Library 53).
'This little known item is a masterpiece of Art Nouveau, the style of the nineties to which the graphic work of Denis and the Nabis made an important contribution.' (The Artist and the Book).
[The Artist and the Book 76].
[58 leaves; pp. 107. Small square 8vo. (200 x 196 mm). Leaf with justification verso, leaf with half-title, printed title, section title and the three parts of Gide's text (see below) including the blank pg. 51 / 52 illustrated with 30 original colour lithographs by Maurice Denis, printed in black and pale yellow or black and pale green by Ancourt, two leaves with verse 'Envoi', leaf with 'Table' and final leaf with achevé d'imprimer; front wrapper with original woodcut in black. Contemporary brown half-morocco by Stroobants, banded spine with gilt decorative title and tooling in six compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, original publisher's printed wrappers with lithograph vignette and title to front cover preserved.
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