( 1887 - 1927 )
PIERRE REVERDY (1889 - 1960) AU SOLEIL DU PLAFOND 22 lithographs by Gris. DeLuxe Edition. Juan Gris & Pierre Reverdy. Paris, Teriade 1955. 43x33 cm. Portfolio with 11 original lithographs in color by Juan Gris to accompany Reverdy‘s poems. One of the first 45 copies with an extra suite of the lithographs on china paper. The complete deluxe set includes: 11 lithographs in colors on Arches paper, with title page, calligraphic text in French, and colophon signed in pencil by Reverdy, and an extra suite of the 11 lithographs printed on Papier de Chine. Executed by Gris in 1916-17 and published posthumously, the 11 plates were printed by Fernand Mourlot. Total edition of 205 copies in Arches Paper + 15 copies out of commerce in Roman Numbers. In the original creamy pictorial portfolio, gray chemise and matching slipcase. Our copy is n. 38 This book was originally planned by L. Rosenberg ca. 1916-1917. Gris died in 1927, having finished only half of the intended illustrations. The project was taken up by Ténade some thirty years later, with the collaboration of the author (Reverdy). Although published in 1955, it it generally accepted as one of the greatest Cubist "livres d'artiste." Both the "illustrations" and the handwritten text are printed via lithography. The text is printed in black and the eleven illustrations in color, on colored grounds. Unbound sheets in slipcase. Collation: half title page, blank page, title page, blank page, introduction, blank page, colophon, blank page, [1] - 152, blank. [Metropolian Museum of Art, New York]
