KISLING (Moïse) - HÉRON DE VILLEFOSSE (René). - Lot 115

KISLING (Moïse) - HÉRON DE VILLEFOSSE (René). L'Épopée bohémienne. S.l. Aux dépens d'un amateur, [1959]. - In-folio, 380 x 280: (2 blank ff.), 146 pp. (5 ff. last 4 blank), cover with reproduction of a score by Erik Satie. Leaves, filled cover, publisher's gray cloth slipcase. Beautiful edition with a preface by Jean Giono, published by Bernard Klein. It is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Kisling after MODIGLIANI, and 18 compositions by Moïse KISLING (1891-1953), 12 of which are reproduced in color (10 full-page and 2 in the text) by D. Jacomet, and 6 woodcuts by Pierre Bouchet (5 lettrines and a cul-de-lampe). Bouchet also printed the text. The cover includes a reproduction of the score of Érik Satie's air de la vie de Bohème. One of the first 30 copies on japon nacré, including a suite of color reproductions on vélin de Hollande, a suite of letterplates on chine, an original copperplate and an original etching on double folio (no. 29). Contrary to the justification, the etching is not numbered. The suite sur chine is preserved in a hand-laid paper folder, on which Satie's score appears. Also inside is a print on vellum pur fil of Modigliani's portrait, not mentioned in the justification. The suite of black plates is missing, and was also absent from the only other copy of the first edition that we were able to locate. A few scattered brown spots.