Lot n° 612
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1000 - 1500
EUR
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[PUBLICITY - FASHION] - POIRET (Paul) - IRIBE (Paul). - Lot 612
[PUBLICITY - FASHION] - POIRET (Paul) - IRIBE (Paul).
The Dresses of Paul Poiret.
Paris : Paul Poiret, [1908]. - Album in-4, 315 x 295 : (16 ff. 3rd, 14th and last blank). Publisher's cream boards.
Famous advertising album designed for the famous fashion designer Paul Poiret, including 10 out-of-text compositions by Paul IRIBE (1883-1935), colored with stencil, representing various models of dresses
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"The young women wearing the models of the couturier were drawn in line, like engravings on copper. Only the dresses are coloured. Paul Poiret recounts in his memoirs how, after admiring Iribe's drawings in the newspaper "Le Témoin", he asked the artist to come and see him at the beginning of 1908: "I confided to Iribe my intention to produce a very beautiful edition, destined for the elite of society: an album of his drawings representing my dresses would be sent as a tribute to all the great ladies of the world. This album, the first of its kind, influenced a whole era and contributed to the formation of a style ". (Pages d'or de l'édition publicitaire).
Edition at 250 copies on Hollande paper.
Copy without the protective cover which is almost always missing, but the illustration which appears in it has been kept and mounted at the head of the volume. It is a representation of a naked woman holding a garland of flowers and apples, printed on China paper. The apples and the woman's hair are painted in red.
The copy has been enriched with 3 brochures published by the fashion designer Paul Poiret. The first one is the announcement leaflet he sent to his clients for the publication of this album; it is illustrated with the vignette on the protective cover and a text in the designer's handwriting. The other two are invitations to come to the Hôtel de l'Avenue d'Antin on 7 October 1909 and 14 October, each illustrated with a colour illustration by Paul Iribe, a reduction of two of the plates in the album. Finally, there is a blank copy of an invoice by Couturier, illustrated with a composition by Paul Iribe, bound at the end.
A very well preserved copy in spite of some soiling to the cardboard.
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