CLAUDEL (Paul). POEMS FROM THE FAISANS' BRIDGE,... - Lot 54 - De Baecque et Associés

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CLAUDEL (Paul). POEMS FROM THE FAISANS' BRIDGE,... - Lot 54 - De Baecque et Associés
CLAUDEL (Paul). POEMS FROM THE FAISANS' BRIDGE, paintings by Tomita Keisen. Album of 36 fans. Tokyo 1926. Large in folio (64 x 38 cms), encased in blue cloth, closed with 2 ivory needles (publisher's binding). "La Maison du Pont des Faisans" is the name of the premises occupied by the French Embassy in Tokyo and close to Claudel's house. This version of the poems brings together 36 paper fans (55 x 21 cms), four of which are taken directly from "Souffle des quatre souffles" and combine a sentence and its illustration. Claudel has added sixteen new, separate sentences and TOMITA KEISEN has added sixteen separate pictures. THIS VERY RARE COLLECTION HAS BEEN PRINTED AT 240 EXAMPLES, 40 with colour-enhanced illustrations and 200 numbered with 4 colour illustrations, the others printed in bistre. Here one of the 200 numbered copies (No. 127). Dusty interlocking, scattered freckles. (Bibliography of the works of Paul Claudel, p. 33).
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