REMIZOV ALEXIS (1877-1957), AUTOGRAPH Sur champ d'azur; trad. J. Fontenoy. Paris: Librairie Plon-Nourit, [1927].

Lotto 721

700900

– (Collection «Feux croisés: Ames et terres étrangères»; Paris, 1927. – 10, II, 248, 4 pp.; 20×13 cm. One of 300 copies not for sale. In French. In original typographic publisher's cover. In very good condition. Minor creases on the edges of the cover. With calligraphic dedicatory inscription of the author on the first free leaf: 'A Monsieur J. E. Blanche / avec l'admiration sincère de / Alexei Remisov /15. II. 27 / Paris A. Remizov'. Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) was a self-taught French painter, popular among artistic, intellectual, and bourgeois circles at the end of the 19th century. He exhibited at the Salon from 1882 to 1889 and at the National Society of Fine Arts from 1890. He was acquainted with famous musicians, writers, and artists of his time, including Debussy, Stravinsky, Proust, Gide, Mauriac, Degas, and Renoir. He was also friends with surrealists and Dadaists, among them Jacques Rigaut, René Crevel, and Jean Cocteau. He was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1935.

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