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Les Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud (Lausanne: Grosclaude, Éditions des Gaules, 1949).
1949
Not on view
- Artist
- Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
- Author
- Arthur Rimbaud (French)
- Printer
- Roth and Souter (Swiss)
- Publisher
- Grosclaude (Swiss)
- Title
- Les Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud (Lausanne: Grosclaude, Éditions des Gaules, 1949).
- Date
- 1949
- Object Type
- Artist's Book
- Medium
- Book with 40 illustrations total: 15 lithographs (color added via pochoir and freehand) on handmade wove paper, 2 suites: 1) of 17 lithographs on China paper, 2) of 8 lithographs on Montgolfier Annonay linen paper; book is bound in the French tradition in hunter green leather with gold accents, gold lettering on the spine and gold gilt edge at the top, endpapers are covered with marbled paper
- Dimensions
- Object: 335 x 265 x 35 mm (13 3/16 x 10 7/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Reva and David Logan Foundation
- Accession Number
- 1998.40.74.1-40
