Maurice DENIS

Autograph letter dated and signed by Maurice Denis, 20 lines in black ink, regarding an article he must provide to a magazine.
Folding trace inherent to envelope insertion.
The painter profusely thanks his correspondent for the interest shown to him: "Je vous remercie de suivre avec bienveillance toutes mes "productions". Vous accepterez celle-ci - d'ailleurs promise à la vie depuis trop longptemps - et vous lui ferez un sort, toujours dans le même sentiment amical." (I thank you for following all my "productions" with such kindness. You will accept this one - which has been promised to life for far too long - and you will give it its due, always in the sam

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in brown half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with black fillets, title in offset black letters on spine, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of gilt and moiré effect paper, original wrappers preserved.
Work illustrated with two vignettes by Maurice Denis.

First edition.
Contributions by Henri Albert "Auguste Strindberg", Victor Barrucand "Buddhist Writings", Gustave Kahn "The Mad King (continued)", Romain Coolus "Dramatic Notes"...
Minor worming and stains to boards.
Our copy is complete with the original print by Maurice Denis.

New edition of the French translation illustrated with 70 original color lithographs by Maurice Denis, one of 204 copies on Holland paper, ours unnumbered, the only issue after 35 Japan and 20 other Holland hors commerce copies.
Handsome copy despite very occasional worming.
The work has the peculiarity of being dated 1939 on the front cover, dated 1936 on the title page and dated 1942 on the colophon page.
The 70 lithographs break down as follows: 13 full-page in color, 2 in color in the text and the others in black, in blue or in 2 tones.
Our copy is complete, at the end, with the double-page table of lithographs hors-texte.

First edition on ordinary paper, only 100 copies were printed on Arches laid paper as deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Maurice Denis to Jacques-Emile Blanche: " à Jacques Blanche en toute sympathie d'art, et peut-être de pensée..." ["to Jacques Blanche with all artistic sympathy, and perhaps of thought..."]
Minimal worming on the endpapers.

“L'Eau” – Catalogue of the exhibition devoted to water at the Georges Bernheim jeune gallery from 26 June to 13 July 1911
Galerie Georges Bernheim jeune &Cie

| Paris 1911 | 12.5 x 16.5 cm | stapled

First edition of this exhibition catalogue showing 63 works to do with water at the Georges Bernheim jeune gallery from 26 June to 13 July 1911.
A good and rare copy despite a faint marginal dampstain to upper cover.

Among the exhibiting artists were: Pierre Bonnard, Eugène Boudin, Paul Cézanne,
Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Henri-Edmond Cross, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Maurice Denis, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh,

Sagesse
Ambroise Vollard | Paris 1911 | 22.5 x 29 cm | morocco with slipcase
Illustrated edition with 95 original compositions (borders, title headers and tail-pieces) of which 72 are in color by Maurice Denis, one of 210 numbered copies on Holland.
Bound in strips of half caramel morocco, spine decorated with wavy arabesques bordered with grey fillets and mosaics of pieces of Havana brown, autumn leaf color, brown and cream morocco, gilt name of the illustrator at the foot, grey fillets framing the marbled paper boards, pastedowns in brown paper, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, slipcase edged in caramel morocco, marbled paper boards, beige felt interior, binding signed

Rare first edition of the double invitation programme to a "Groupe des Six" concert on June 19, 1920, and to the second "Jeune Peinture française" exhibition from June 17 to July 4, 1920 at the Galerie Manzi-Joyant et Cie.
This document combines a musical event (with works by Francis Poulenc, Louis Durey, Arnold Schoenberg, Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud and Germaine Tailleferre) with a paintings exhibition by Paul Cézanne, Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Félix Vallotton, Paul Sérusier and Paul Signac, among others, as well as sculptures by Aristide Maillol and Antoine Bourdelle.
The program announces the avant-garde concert of the "Groupe des Six" f

Complete collection in volume of the magazine L'image, published between 1896 and 1897. 12 issues published, well complete of its copy number, enriched by an exceptional autograph dedication of the author of the directors of publication Tony Beltrand, Auguste Lepère, Leon Ruffe, Jules Rais , to Monsieur Floury, the publisher of the magazine. Personal copy of the editor of the magazine, Henri Floury (handwritten in pencil repeated several times in the lower margin of the inset "QUOTE THE MENTION").
Well complete covers illustrated at the end of the volume, made by masters of the time (Toulouse-Lautrec, Alfons Mucha).
(LUXURY EDITION TAKEN 100 EXAMPLES ON CH

Le Voyage d'Urien [Urien's Voyage]
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on vergé crème paper printed on 25 May 1893, by Paul Schmidt, typographer, and Edw. Ancourt lithographer. A few copies printed on chine and japon paper.
Brown morocco by Gruel, spine in six compartments, date at foot, pastedowns lined with red morocco with gilt fillet frame, brown silk endpapers, double fillet to edges of boards, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, brown morocco-edged slipcase.
Occasional light spotting.
This work