Upcoming Highlights: Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics At Auction January 29 Complete Catalogue Taking place during Bibliography Week in New York City, this auction focuses on fine twentieth-century livres d’artiste. Among a large number of Art Deco masterworks is George Barbier and F.L. Schmied’s luscious, sensuous collaboration, Le Cantique des Cantiques. Also included is Sonia Delaunay’s 1925 tour-de-force of Simultaneous Contrast design theory, Ses Peintures, Ses Objets… Fine American press books feature the rare portfolio of six signed, numbered etchings by Richard Diebenkorn accompanying the Arion Press Poems of W.B.Yeats, unique bindings of extremely limited editions by the Cheloniidae Press, and from Leonard Baskin, founder of the Gehenna Press, a specially dedicated double-suite set from an edition of 15 copies of Diptera: A Book of Flies & Other Insects, 1983. Masterpieces of Modernist artists’ books include fine copies of Georges Rouault’s rare 1938 Cirque de l’Étoile Filante and Passion, and German Expressionist high spots Wassily Kandinsky’s Klänge and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Umbra Vitae in original bindings. Important examples of fine printing, typography, architecture, Asian and European fine arts, picture books (including children’s, fairy tales and fables) and graphics will round out this concentrated sale. Contemporary Art Lot 186: W.B. Yeats, Poems, illustrated by Richard Diebenkorn, accompanied by a suite of six etchings by Diebenkorn, Arion Press, 1990. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000. Lot 184: John Bodley & Theo Crosby, Living Arts, issues 1-3, London, 1963-64. Estimate $800 to $1,200. Design Lot 87: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, one of 25 deluxe leather-bound portfolios, Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000. Lot 92: Herbert Bayer, Cohama Ties, advertising proof, New York, 1944. Estimate $600 to $900. Modern Livres d’Artiste Lot 169: Georges Rouault, Cirque de l’Étoile Filante, Paris, 1938. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000. Lot 178: Hans Bellmer & Georges Hugnet, Oeillades ciselées en branch, Paris, 1939. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000. Lot 152: Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae, illustrated by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, first edition, Munich, 1924. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000. Lot 151: Wassily Kandinsky, Klänge, first edition with 56 woodcuts, Munich, 1913. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000. Fine Printing & Press Books Lot 20: Leonard Baskin, Diptera: A Book of Flies & Other Insects, 33 etchings with watercolor, Gehenna Press, 1983. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000. Lot 28: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, special publisher’s copy for the illustrator, Alan James Robinson, the first book from the Cheloniidae Press, 1980. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000. Lot 9: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, eine Tragödie von Goethe, Ernst Ludwig Presse, Frankfurt, 1922. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500. Art Nouveau to Art Deco Lot 100: Eugène Grasset, La Plante et ses applications Ornementales, with 72 plates, Paris, 1895. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000. Lot 128: Rudyard Kipling, Le Livre de la Jungle, with plates by Paul Jouve, engraved by F.L. Schmied, Société du livre contemporain, Paris, 1919. Estimate $7,000 to $10,000. Lot 132: Georges Lepape, Les Choses de Paul Poiret, 12 pochoir plates, Paris, 1911. Estimate $3,500 to $5,000. Lot 138: François-Louis Schmied, Le Cantique des Cantiques, one of 110 copies, with 80 wood-engraved illustrations, Paris, 1925. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000. Lot 122: Sonia Delaunay, Ses Peintures, Ses Objets, Ses Tissues Simultanés, Ses Modes, 20 pochoir plates, Paris, 1925. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000. Art History & Decorative Arts Lot 71: Livre d’heures, illuminated manuscript, France, late 19th century. Estimate $3,500 to $5,000. Lot 67: Strickland’s Lithographic Drawing of the Ancient Painted Ceiling in the Nave of Peterborough Cathedral, Cambridge, 1849. Estimate $1,000 to $1,500. Complete Catalogue Buying at Swann Selling with Swann Complete Auction Schedule Share Facebook Twitter December 26, 2018Author: Swann CommunicationsCategory: Books & Manuscripts Tags: Art Deco Cheloniidae Press Ernst Ludwig Kirchner F.L. Schmied Gehenna Press George Barbier Georges Rouault German Expressionist Leonard Baskin Modernist Richard Diebenkorn Sonia Delaunay Wassily Kandinsky Previous 2018: Year in Review Next Upcoming Highlights: Vintage Posters Recommended Posts Modern & Post-War Art: December 2020 Highlights Modern & Post-War Art November 9, 2020 Upcoming Highlights: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Prints & Drawings February 4, 2019 Dramatized Sales Methods: How to close a sale in 1930 Vintage Posters May 14, 2019