WEGENER (Gerda) - VÉRINEAU (Alexandre de) pseudonym of Louis - Lot 280

WEGENER (Gerda) - VÉRINEAU (Alexandre de) pseudonym of Louis PERCEAU. Douze Sonnets lascifs to accompany the suite of watercolors entitled Les Délassements d'Éros. Érotopolis: à l'enseigne du faune [Paris: Maurice Duflou], 1925. - In-8, 254x196: (1 blank f.), 37 pp. 12 plates. Leaves, publisher's illustrated cardboard folder with cloth ties. First edition of Louis Perceau's sonnets, published under the pseudonym Alexandre Vérineau, accompanied by 12 superb free-form, oval or round, stencil-colored compositions signed with a black wolf designating the artist Gerda WEGENER (1885-1940). Gerda Wegener was the wife of artist Einer Wegener (1882-1931), one of history's first transwomen, better known as Lili Elbe. A very well preserved copy, despite the first, fifth and last leaves being browned. Two links missing.