(LEGER, FERNAND.) Cendrars, Blaise. Le Fin du Monde
(LEGER, FERNAND.) Cendrars, Blaise. Le Fin du Monde filmée par l'Ange N.-D. Roman. Pochoir cover design and 22 color stenciled plates by Léger (3 are double-page). 4to, original wrappers and glassine overwrap, light edgewear with closed tear along backstrip; contents with occasional toning along fore-edges. The pochoirs printed by Ateliers de Richard, Paris. Number 576 of 1200 copies of Léger's first illustrated book in color. Éditions de la Sirène was Jean Cocteau's publishing house. Le Fin du Monde was the collaborative project by Léger, Cendrars, and Cocteau who were all engaged in filmmaking at the time of publication. "Compressing space in the Cubist manner, Leger invokes a sense of simultaneity with overlapping and repetitive geometric and alphabetic forms" (Castleman, A Century of Artist Books pp. 170-171). Cubist Prints/Cubist Books 64. - Paris: Editions de la Sirène, 1919
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(LEGER, FERNAND.) Cendrars, Blaise. Le Fin du Monde filmée par l'Ange N.-D. Roman. Pochoir cover design and 22 color stenciled plates by Léger (3 are double-page). 4to, original wrappers and glassine overwrap, light edgewear with closed tear along backstrip; contents with occasional toning along fore-edges. The pochoirs printed by Ateliers de Richard, Paris. Number 576 of 1200 copies of Léger's first illustrated book in color. Éditions de la Sirène was Jean Cocteau's publishing house. Le Fin du Monde was the collaborative project by Léger, Cendrars, and Cocteau who were all engaged in filmmaking at the time of publication. "Compressing space in the Cubist manner, Leger invokes a sense of simultaneity with overlapping and repetitive geometric and alphabetic forms" (Castleman, A Century of Artist Books pp. 170-171). Cubist Prints/Cubist Books 64. - Paris: Editions de la Sirène, 1919
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