Last Hurrah
- Hopfer, The Soldier and His Wife
- van Leyden, The Baptism of Christ
- Italian School (Tuscan?), Eagles
- Marco Dente, Entellus and Dares
- Vincentino, Temperance
- Hopfer, Battle of the Naked Men
- Circle of Romano, Roman Battle
- van Leyden, The Fall of Man
- Scultori, Eros Playing a Clavier
- Bonasone, The Wounded Scipio
- Brun, The Drummer
- Cort, The Assembly of the Gods
- Wierix, The Virgin Nursing
- Sadeler, Annunciation
- de Gheyn, The Rest on the Flight
- Sadeler, Death as a Welcome Visitor
- Callot, Les Intermèdes, No.1
- Brebiette, Woman Nursing
- Dutch or Flemish School, Four Biblical Episodes
- Vauquer, Ornament Plate
- Hondius, Uylenspiegel, or Owlglass
- Roghman, River and Rocks, Italy
- Castiglione, Noah and the Animals
- Piranesi, Frontispiece
- Piranesi, Carceri XI: The Arch
- Pether, A Farrier’s Shop
- Tiepolo, Self Portrait
- Turner & Dunkarton, The Temple
- Lucas, The Vale of Dedham, Essex
- Weir, Study for a Monument
- Lalanne, View of Groningen
- Richmond, Landscape at Otford
- Harpignies, Troncs d’Arbres
- Loizelet, Le Petit Coblentz
- Whistler, The Smith
- Forain, Loge de Danseuse
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Au Pied du Sinai
- Orlik, Still Life with Fruit
- Marin, Sestiere di Dorso Duro
- Roussel, The Snow
- Vergé-Sarrat, Chambre de Malade
- Oppenheimer, Ferruccio Busoni
- Levine, Sewing Machine Operator
- Picasso, Femme Nue à la Jambe
- Oppenheimer, The Rosé Quartet
- Villon, Mon Vieux Luxembourg
- Epstein, Jackie
- Tobey, Untitled
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37. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Georges Clemenceau: Au Pied du Sinai |
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Georges Clemenceau: Au Pied du Sinai
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The first edition, 1898, the complete volume in the original couverture, set into a portfolio and slip case, with 21 original lithographs, edition of 355. In addition, the second (unused) version of the couverture and the three planches refusées, editions of 28 and 25, together giving all Lautrec’s images for the book. The volume is signed in ink by Clemenceau and dedicated to his sister. The couverture of the book is a color lithograph. Two sets of 10 lithographs each are included, one set printed in black on white paper, the second in various tones of ink on a different paper. The couverture refusée and the three planches refusées are on japan. The source of these latter four prints is obviously someone’s idiotic breaking up of a deluxe edition of 25 of the set, for the prints were not issued separately. The portfolio and slip case show some wear and the pages of the book are no longer attached to the couverture at the spine. A few pages of the book show some foxing, but there is no noticeable foxing on any of the contained lithographs. The couverture refusée has a small tear, neatly repaired at the bottom. Otherwise, the condition of the ensemble is excellent. Clemenceau, who was a politician (later, twice Prime Minister of France) as well as a doctor and the owner of a newspaper, was a strong defender of Dreyfus at the famous trial and it was his newspaper that published Zola’s famous “J’accuse.” Au Pied de Sinai, a book of sketches of Jewish life and character, is the result of Clemenceau’s travel to Poland and visits to Jewish communities there. Once believed to be anti-semitic, it is quite the opposite. Lautrec, for his part in the project, spent much time in the Jewish sections of Paris, sketching poor Polish and Russian Jewish émigrés. Their joint effort produced one of the greatest illustrated books of the century. One volume plus 4 separate prints.
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