MICH.
To the Automobile!
Paris, 1907. - Album in-folio, 400 x 300 : (4 ff.), 40 plates. In sheets, in the publisher's illustrated cardboard folder.

Interesting album prefaced by Frantz Reichel, including 40 plates of caricatures in colors of the draftsman and poster artist MICH (1881-1923) representing people having a relationship with the automobile.

"In this book [...] Mich has captured a bit of the life of the most important, original, strange, or grotesque personalities who made the mechanical locomotion. One will find all the roles, from the authentic marquis to the sleeping count, from the industrialist of race, the serious intermediary, the merchant of stature, to the adventure dealer, acrobat of supply and demand, and, evolving around them and among them, the common and ungrateful troop of the amiable or arrogant parvenus ". (preface).

Copy enriched with this letter from the artist to the painter Paul Méry (18..-19..) :

To his friend Paul Mery // souvenir of good friendship // MichSmall

stains and some discoloration on the boards, lacks the links. Upper part of the title browned. Small tears on the edge of the boards.
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Lot no. 577

MICH. To the Automobile! Paris, 1907. - Album in-folio, 400 x 300 : (4 ff.), 40 plates. In sheets, in the publisher's illustrated cardboard folder. Interesting album prefaced by Frantz Reichel, including 40 plates of caricatures in colors of the draftsman and poster artist MICH (1881-1923) representing people having a relationship with the automobile. "In this book [...] Mich has captured a bit of the life of the most important, original, strange, or grotesque personalities who made the mechanical locomotion. One will find all the roles, from the authentic marquis to the sleeping count, from the industrialist of race, the serious intermediary, the merchant of stature, to the adventure dealer, acrobat of supply and demand, and, evolving around them and among them, the common and ungrateful troop of the amiable or arrogant parvenus ". (preface). Copy enriched with this letter from the artist to the painter Paul Méry (18..-19..) : To his friend Paul Mery // souvenir of good friendship // MichSmall stains and some discoloration on the boards, lacks the links. Upper part of the title browned. Small tears on the edge of the boards.

Estimate
€400 - €500
Result
€625
Buyer's premium
28%
MICH. To the Automobile! Paris, 1907. - Album in-folio, 400 x 300 : (4 ff.), 40 plates. In sheets, in the publisher's illustrated cardboard folder. Interesting album prefaced by Frantz Reichel, including 40 plates of caricatures in colors of the draftsman and poster artist MICH (1881-1923) representing people having a relationship with the automobile. "In this book [...] Mich has captured a bit of the life of the most important, original, strange, or grotesque personalities who made the mechanical locomotion. One will find all the roles, from the authentic marquis to the sleeping count, from the industrialist of race, the serious intermediary, the merchant of stature, to the adventure dealer, acrobat of supply and demand, and, evolving around them and among them, the common and ungrateful troop of the amiable or arrogant parvenus ". (preface). Copy enriched with this letter from the artist to the painter Paul Méry (18..-19..) : To his friend Paul Mery // souvenir of good friendship // MichSmall stains and some discoloration on the boards, lacks the links. Upper part of the title browned. Small tears on the edge of the boards.
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