Chimot, Édouard] [Les Chats]. Paris, à l'enseigne de l'auteu - Lot 233

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Chimot, Édouard] [Les Chats]. Paris, à l'enseigne de l'auteu - Lot 233
Chimot, Édouard] [Les Chats]. Paris, à l'enseigne de l'auteur qui ne veut pas dire son nom, 1932. In-folio (40 x 29,5 cm), in sheets in publisher's flap wallet in brick coloured cardboard - accidents to the wallet which is slightly tarnished - [4 ff., repetition of the first 2 verses of Baudelaire's poem "les chats" "les amoureux fervents et les savants austères aiment également dans leur mûre saison", justification, cul-de-lampe (vine leaf), blank, table, blank]. Published without a title, the book is illustrated with 15 original colour lithographs by Édouard Chimot, showing naked women from the top of the navel to the knees. Each illustration is laminated and presented under a mat captioned with evocative titles (Brune, Blonde, À l'espagnole, le Chat botté, les Siamois, le Chat noir, Patte de velours, le Chat qui dort, la Chatte bleue de Perse, le Chaton, le Chat sauvage, Chat perché, Obsession, Cauchemar, "Le Petit chat est mort"). Rare album, printed at 250 copies, this one of the twenty hors commerce reserved to the artist (not numbered). The illustrations are printed on Holland paper Van Gelder Zonen (Dutel 1213).
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