
A collection of twelve issues of L'Amour de l'art for the year 1931, bound together in one volume, richly illustrated.
Half shagreen brown binding with corners, marbled paper boards, spine with four raised bands, gilt-lettered title and date on spine, marbled paper endpapers, gilt top edge, original Art Deco wrappers preserved. A few minor rubs and spots of soiling to the binding, some leaves lightly browned at the margins, otherwise a fine copy.
Contributions by Elie Faure, René Huyghe, Claude Roger-Marx, Germain Bazin, Jean Cassou, Paul Fierens, Raymond Cogniat, Charles Léger, Pierre Prat, Charles Sterling, Tristan Klingsor, Raymond Geiger...
Issues illustrated with reproductions of works by Antoine Bourdelle, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas, André Derain, Moïse Kisling, Oskar Kokoschka, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Henri Rousseau, Kitagawa Utamaro, Gino Severini, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, and photographic portrait reproductions of Bourdelle, Toulouse-Lautrec, Courbet...
They also include articles on the cinema of Buster Keaton.