[Art] [Degas, Edgar] Halevy, Ludovic, La Famille
[Art] [Degas, Edgar] Halevy, Ludovic
La Famille Cardinal
Paris: Auguste Blaizot & Files, 1939. First Degas edition, #169 of 325 (of 350) numbered copies on Rives wove paper. 4to. (1)-161, [1] pp., plus colophon leaf. Illustrated with frontispiece, 31 plates (seven in color), and two illustrations in text. Original wrappers, minor edge wear, head and foot of spine starting to darken; untrimmed; tape residue on blanks. The Artist and the Book 71.The plates were engraved and printed by hand by Maurice Potin after monotypes executed by Degas, likely during the 1880s for a planned but never printed edition.
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Private Collection, New York, NY.
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[Art] [Degas, Edgar] Halevy, Ludovic
La Famille Cardinal
Paris: Auguste Blaizot & Files, 1939. First Degas edition, #169 of 325 (of 350) numbered copies on Rives wove paper. 4to. (1)-161, [1] pp., plus colophon leaf. Illustrated with frontispiece, 31 plates (seven in color), and two illustrations in text. Original wrappers, minor edge wear, head and foot of spine starting to darken; untrimmed; tape residue on blanks. The Artist and the Book 71.The plates were engraved and printed by hand by Maurice Potin after monotypes executed by Degas, likely during the 1880s for a planned but never printed edition.
Provenance:
Private Collection, New York, NY.