Roger de VALERIO

First edition of this vocal and piano score illustrated on the first cover with a color drawing by Roger de Valerio.
Although created by a French artist in an expressionist vein, the cover reproduces the stereotypical imagery of African Americans that had been conveyed since the Civil War through American racist caricature.
Yet in 1923, this violent, degrading and essentializing stigmatization based on the ideology of ethnic hierarchy was facetiously subverted by Black Americans, notably through Jazz and Blues culture and by several major artistic figures including Josephine Baker. Thus, in her Revue Nègre, she humorously and sensually reappropriated the degrading representation of...

First edition of this voice and piano score illustrated on the first cover with a color illustration by Roger de Valerio.
Very handsome copy.

First edition of this piano score, first cover illustrated in color by Roger de Valerio.
Very fine copy.

First edition of this vocal score (bilingual) and piano illustrated on the front cover with a large color illustration by Roger de Valerio. La Madelon was created by Maurice Chevalier at the Casino de Paris.
Very handsome copy.

First edition of this vocal (bilingual) and piano score, first cover illustrated by Roger de Valerio.
A very handsome copy.

First edition of this piano score illustrated on the first cover with a color illustration by Roger de Valerio.
Superb copy.

First edition of this vocal and piano score illustrated on the front cover with a color illustration by Roger de Valerio.
A very handsome copy despite some traces of creasing.