Venise, seuil des eaux
 

First edition with 10 pochoir illustrations after Kees Van Dongen's original watercolors. One of 10 copies on Imperial Japan paper, with a double suite, one in black and white on China and one in color on strong vellum, namely 30 full-page illustrations, the tirage de tête (deluxe copies) after 6 others on Japan enriched with original watercolors (5 in the first and one in the following 5).
 
Binding lined with rods in white calf painted with a royal blue decoration divided into two horizontal parts whose contrast draws an urban silhouette, liners in edge-to-edge royal blue painted leather, matching blue titanium rods, loose endpapers in Vietnamese paper dyed by the binder. Binding signed by Julie Auzillon, white and blue film title lengthwise on the spine. Rigid decorated chemise, titled on the spine, slipcase. Titling by Geneviève Quarré de Boiry and palladium gilt top edge by Jean-Luc Bongrain. (2022)
 
A masterpiece of the illustrated book, Venice is one of Van Dongen's most beautiful and well-known creations, at the height of his artistic evolution.
 
“Venice inspired many painters, writes J. Kyriazi, but it certainly held a particular charm for Van Dongen: he brought back fascinating images where, in famous sites, bathed in intense light, elegant Parisian women glide around. Van Dongen makes Venice appear in a new light. And it is, quite naturally, to him that Paul Leclère turned in 1925 for the illustration of his poetic narration, Venise, seuil des eaux.” (Van Dongen après le fauvisme, Lausanne, 1987, p. 40).
 
”Each [of the plates] is a kind of coloured spectacle, scenes in which the characters, kept busy by vague occupations, seem to belong to a theatrical universe.” (Juffermans, Kees Van Dongen. The Graphic Work, p. 130, JB3; Vallès-Bled, Van Dongen, du Nord au Sud, Musée de Lodève, p. 202, n°78-88)
 
Exceptional copy on Imperial Japan paper complete with its double suite in black and white and in color. Stunning art binding signed by one of the rising figures of contemporary French bookbinding.

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