ALEXANDER ALEXEEV (1901-1982) Baudelaire Ch. Petits Poèmes en prose. Paris: Société du livre d’art, 1934.

In French. Edition of 148 copies. Personal copy No. 68 – Monsieur Maurice-U. La Combe 30 etching and aquatint illustrations, laid with tissue, frontispiece, and tailpiece. In the publisher's composite case, composed publisher's folder with a label on the spine, in the illustrated publisher's cover. Unbound, uncut copy. In very good condition. Alexander Alexandrovich Alexeev (1901-1982) was a Russian and French graphic artist, book illustrator, and animator of Russian origin. Inventor of the needle screen. In 1921 he settled in Paris, becoming a pupil and assistant to S. Sudeikin. In 1922-1925 he worked as a set designer in many Parisian theatre companies: for N.F. Baliev's 'Bat', in the theatre 'Knock' of J. Romain, fulfilled commissions for theatre productions of J. Pitoyev, F.F. Komissarzhevsky, G. Baty, 'Russian Ballet' of S.P. Diaghilev. From 1925, with the support of the writer F. Supo and publisher J. Shifrin, he began to receive commissions for book illuminations.