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La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France)
1913
This unusually formatted book is representative of a period of innovative book production in the avantgarde milieu of 1913 Paris. With her husband, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay-Terk was an exemplar of Orphism: her work infused Cubism with dynamic light and color. Through the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, she met Blaise Cendrars, known for poetry of emotional force and dynamic imagery. The poem illustrated here, a tale of a railway journey on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, is printed on four joined sheets folded once vertically and twenty-one times horizontally to fit into a small wrapper. More than six feet in length when fully unfolded, the edition features Delaunay-Terk’s illustrations reproduced with pochoir.
- Artist
- Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885-1979)
- Author
- Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961)
- Publisher
- Editions des Hommes Nouveaux (French)
- Title
- La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France)
- Date
- 1913
- Place of Creation
- Paris
- Object Type
- Artist's Book
- Medium
- Gouache on vellum (cover) Book with pochoir illustrations, unfolded into a broadside
- Dimensions
- Overall (Cover): 7 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (19.685 x 22.225 cm) Framed (cover): 14 7/8 x 12 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (37.783 x 31.433 x 2.858 cm) Framed (book): 81 x 17 1/8 x 2 in. (205.74 x 43.498 x 5.08 cm) Overall (book): 77 1/2 x 14 in. (196.85 x 35.56 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Reva and David Logan Foundation
- Accession Number
- 2016.15.4a-b