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CUBISM -- GLEIZES, Albert (1881-1953) and Jean METZINGER (1883-1956). Du Cubisme. Paris: Eugène Figuière and Co., 1912. 8° (230 x 180mm). 26 halftone reproductions of works by Cézanne, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger, and others. (Two wormholes not affecting the text or plates; some spotting , this not affecting the plates.) 20th-century brick-red half roan (spine evenly faded, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Albert Gleizes (inscription to:) -- Thiebaut-Sissou.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GLEIZES AND METZINGER, OF THIS 'IMPORTANT DOCUMENT OF CUBISM' (The Artist and the Book ). 'The first and most authoritative publication intended to expose the principles of the new style' (Stein). D. Stein Libri cubisti, 15; and cf. The Artist & the Book 1860-1960, 89; Johnson & Stein, Artists' Books in the Modern Era, 122.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GLEIZES AND METZINGER, OF THIS 'IMPORTANT DOCUMENT OF CUBISM' (The Artist and the Book ). 'The first and most authoritative publication intended to expose the principles of the new style' (Stein). D. Stein Libri cubisti, 15; and cf. The Artist & the Book 1860-1960, 89; Johnson & Stein, Artists' Books in the Modern Era, 122.