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JOYCE, James (1882-1941) -- MATISSE, Henri (1869-1954, illustrator). Ulysses. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 4° (295 x 225mm). 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by Matisse. Original brown cloth, slipcase (inner hinges slightly split, slipcase worn).
ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY MATISSE, number 32 in a total limitation of 1500 copies. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey'. When asked why he decided to illustrate the Calypso, Aelous, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe and Ithaca episodes of the classic poem rather than events from Joyce's novel, Matisse replied that it was because he had not read Ulysses (Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, pp. 35, 62); The American Livre de Peintre 32; The Artist and the Book 197.
ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY MATISSE, number 32 in a total limitation of 1500 copies. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey'. When asked why he decided to illustrate the Calypso, Aelous, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe and Ithaca episodes of the classic poem rather than events from Joyce's novel, Matisse replied that it was because he had not read Ulysses (Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, pp. 35, 62); The American Livre de Peintre 32; The Artist and the Book 197.