HESSE, RAYMOND - MARCEL VERTES (Illustr.).

L'Age D'Or. Lithographies Originales en Couleurs de Marcel Vertes.

Paris, Les Éditions de la Roseraie, 1926.

4to. Uncut and unopened in the original wrappers. Slight fading to spine and minor, very light soiling to wrappers. Otherwise very fine. With the ex libris of "Henri Barthélemy" to front free end-paper. Laid in two leaves of the author's manuscript.

No 7 of 12 copies "sur japon imperial" (prémier papier), out of a total of 250 copies. This magnificent copy includes 11 original lithographs in colour, 1 suite of lithographs on "japon" in colours, 1 suite on "japon imperial" in black, 4 plates showing 4 states of one plate, 2 plates showing 2 states of one plate. Furthermore is laid in 2 pp. in 4to., closely written, of the author's manuscript (numbered in his hand pp. 38-39), in his own hand, with additons and corrections. These 2 pages constitute the original manuscript for the last 4 pages of the printed book, i.e. chapter X. The manuscript leaves are signed at the end "Raymond Hesse".

One of the 12 fabulous copies with the extra suites of what is considered Vertès best work. Marcel Vertès (1895 -1961) was a magnificent and very versatile artist. He was a costume designer, portraitist, muralist, satirist, ceramicist, author and illustrator, perhaps most generally known as the academy award winning costume designer for John Huston's "Moulin Rouge" from 1952 and for his classic murals at the Café Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel in New York.

Vertès was Born in Budapest in 1895. After serving his country in World War I, he abandoned plans to study law and made his way to Paris to become an artist. In 1940 he left Paris for New York where he set up a studio on West 57th Street. In the late 1950'ies, he returned to Paris, where he died in 1961, having served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival.

Order-nr.: 15573