Catalogue raisonne of Marcoussis' graphic works

Heading: (Marcoussis, Louis)

Author: Milet, Solange

Title: Louis Marcoussis: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Gravé

Place Published: Copenhagen

Publisher:Forlatet Cordelia

Date Published: 1991

Description:
Text in French. Preface by Dora Vallier. With copper-engraved frontispiece self-portrait printed in sepia, tipped-in color plates, and in-text b&w illustrations. Orange cloth lettered in black, pictorial jacket, cardboard slipcase. No. 140 of an edition limited to 1500 standard copies from a total edition of 1640. First Edition.

Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus was an avant-garde Polish artist who answered the call of Paris where Guillaume Appolinaire would give him the French name Louis Marcoussis. Marcoussis absorbed several of the modernist styles before focusing on printmaking and livres d'artistes. Marcoussis was friends with many of the artists in the Montmartre/Montparnasse scene. He taught Joan Miró the itaglio processes of etching. Frontispiece is numbered 140/1500 in pencil at lower left. An earlier state of the frontispiece (with no cross-hatching) is recorded as no. 165 in the catalogue.