SCHMIED (François-Louis). Brown skin from... - Lot 299 - Ader

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SCHMIED (François-Louis). Brown skin from... - Lot 299 - Ader
SCHMIED (François-Louis). Brown skin from St-Nazaire to La Ciotat. Logbook of F.-L. Schmied. S.l. Société les XXX de Lyon, 1931. - In-4, 314 x 242: (44 ff. 2 first and last blanks), printed cover. Green morocco, flat and spine decorated symmetrically with full and partial circles made of gold and black fillets and gold dots, smooth spine, lining of grey morocco decorated as on the flat, green moire silk endpapers, double endpapers, gold edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved, shirt with green morocco overlapping bands , case (Semet and Plumelle). Original edition of one of François-Louis SCHMIED's most personal and successful books, constituting the logbook he kept on his schooner Peau-Brune during a cruise from July to October 1927. The artist composed for the occasion no less than 120 drawings, 2 of which are full-page, engraved on wood in color under the direction of Théo Schmied. He also designed the layout of the book, which was unconventional to say the least; he explains it in his introductory text: "Perhaps I will be reproached for the apparent imbalance of my pages? Imbalance: no. Asymmetry: certainly, I taste it. It has always seemed to me that symmetry was the reflection of a laziness of mind that is content to invent only half or even a quarter of a work. Asymmetry requires a more sustained and varied effort. A noble decoration cannot be fragmentary, i.e. repetition of a motif with unlimited extension. It must unroll its own complete rhythm on the given surface. " Edition at 135 copies on vellum paper, signed by Schmied. This one, bearing the number 134, is one of 15 collaborators, with a double series of illustrations, in black and in colour on vellum. These two suites are numbered 39 . Superb copy in a double-bound binding with Semet et Plumelle, enriched with the colour decomposition of the second full-page illustration, justified: " " States " N° XXXIX of the plate
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