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5. Pierre Begrain and Art Deco Bookbinding
Henri Marius Michel, binding decorated with floral design, on Joris-Karl Huysmans, À rebours, illustrated by Auguste Lepère (Paris: Les Cent bibliophiles, 1903). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Charles Meunier, doublure depicting a Parisian bookstall, in Octave Uzanne, Physiologies des quais de Paris, illustrated by Émile Masand with an engraving by Georges Henri Manesse (Paris: Libraires-Imprimeurs Réunies, 1893). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Émile Maylander, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with center and corner ornaments within a border, on Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, illustrated by Léon Carré (Paris: H. Piazza, 1914). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Charles Meunier, upper cover and spine of binding (1924) decorated with a panel based on one of Louis Legrand's etchings, on Erastène Ramiro, Faune parisienne, illustrated by Legrand (Paris: Gustave Pellet, 1901). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Pierre Begrain, upper covers of four bindings with lettering, executed by René Kieffer in 1916-19 for Jacques Doucet, on André Suarès, "Sur la vie: Latin et Sorbonne" (manuscript of 13 leaves), Georges Duhamel, L'Homme en tête (Paris: Vers et Prose, 1909), Paul Claudel, Le pain dur (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1918), and Paul Claudel, L'Annonce faite à Marie (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1912). Reproduced from Pierre Begrain relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), plate 3.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover of binding decorated with circles and curved lines, executed by René Kieffer, on Maurice Maeterlinck, Serres chaudes (Bruxelles: P. Lacomblez; Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1910). Reproduced from Pierre Begrain relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), plate 18 (upper right).
Pierre Begrain, upper cover of binding decorated with a black cross (1922), on Roland Dorgelès, Les croix de bois, illustrated by André Dunoyer de Segonzac (Paris: La Banderole, 1921). Reproduced from Pierre Begrain relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), color plate C.
Pierre Begrain, maquette with a fountain design, for a binding for RenéBoylesve, Nymphes dansant avec les satyrs (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, [1920]), to be rendered in 1921 by René Kieffer. Preserved in an album of Begrain maquettes, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, maquette with a design of crossed chains, for a binding for Oscar Wilde, Ballade de la géôle de Reading, translated by Henry D. Davray and illustrated by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (Paris: L. Pichon, 1918), to be rendered in 1921 by René Kieffer. Preserved in an album of Begrain maquettes, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover of binding decorated with a buckle design and mother-of-pearl inlay (1925), on André Gide, La porte étroite (Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1909). Florence Blumenthal copy, George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a central oval of wood (1925), on André Gide, Isabelle ("4th édition"; Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1911). Florence Blumenthal copy, George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a pattern of crossing bars (1922-24), on Octave Mirbeau, Le journal d'une femme de chambre (Paris: E. Fasquelle, 1900). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Henri Marius Michel, binding decorated with floral ornamentation, on Denis Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, illustrated by Bernard Naudin (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1924). Reproduced from Roger Devauchelle, La reliure en France de ses origines à nos jours (Paris: J. Rousseau-Girard, 1959-61), 3: opposite page 90.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover of binding decorated with a geometric design, on Denis Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, illustrated by Bernard Naudin (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1924). Reproduced from Roger Devauchelle, La reliure en France de ses origines à nos jours (Paris: J. Rousseau-Girard, 1959-61), 3: frontispiece.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with irregularly spaced parallel lines, on Paul Valéry, Monsieur Teste (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1927). Florence Blumenthal copy, George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with diagonal parallel lines (1927), on Anna Elisabeth de Brancovan, comtesse de Noailles, Les forces éternelles (Paris: A. Fayard, 1920). Florence Blumenthal copy, George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, binding decorated with crossing narrow bands (1927), on Oscar Wilde, Deux contes, translated by Albert Savine (Paris: Schmied, 1926). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with curved parallel lines (1926), on René Boylesve, Souvenirs d'un jardin détruit, illustrated by Maximilien Vox (Paris: J. Ferenczi & Fils, 1924). Florence Blumenthal copy, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, binding decorated with circular designs (1927), on Charles Baudelaire, Les paradis artificiels (Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Pierre Begrain, binding decorated with serpent-like curves (1928), on Paul Valéry, La jeune Parque, illustrated by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1925). Florence Blumenthal copy, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Jean-Gabriel Daragnès, serpent vignette, in Paul Valéry, La jeune Parque (Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1925), title page. Florence Blumenthal copy, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, maquette with an abstract design suggesting flowers, for a binding for Gérard d'Houville, Le diadème de flore, illustrated by André-Édouard Marty and engraved by Georges Beltrand (Paris: Le Livre, 1928). Preserved in an album of Begrain maquettes, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, maquette with a design suggesting a barred window, for a binding for Oscar Wilde, Ballade de la géôle de Reading, translated by Henry-D. Davray and illustrated by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (Paris: L. Pichon, 1918). Preserved in an album of Begrain maquettes, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, maquette with a geometric design, for the upper doublure of his album of ninety-six original designs and maquettes covering 1917-29. Preserved in the album, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, maquette with a geometric design, for the lower doublure of his album of ninety-six original designs and maquettes covering 1917-29. Preserved in the album, Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, lower doublure decorated with a geometric design, in his album of ninety-six original designs and maquettes covering 1917-29. Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover of binding decorated with parallel bands crossed with parallel lines, on Paul Verlaine, Parallèlement, illustrated by Pierre Bonnard (Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1900). Reproduced from Pierre Begrain relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), plate 30 (upper right).
Pierre Begrain, binding decorated with interlocking circles, on Longus, Daphnis et Chloè, translated by J. Amyot and illustrated by Pierre Bonnard (Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1902). Reproduced from Pierre Begrain relieur (Paris: Auguste Blaizot, 1965), plate 63 (lower half).
Pierre Begrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with an angular geometric design, on Le cantique des cantiques, translated by Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Reproduced from Rose Adler, Reliures présenté par Rose Adler (Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1929]), plate 10 (right).
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Pierre Begrain, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a stylized moon against the sky, on Georges Rouault, Paysages légendaires (Paris: Porteret, 1929). Florence Blumenthal copy, George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Pierre Begrain, upper cover of binding decorated with a diagonal scallop design, on Paul Valéry, Poésies (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929). Florence Blumenthal copy, George Blumenthal Collection, New York Public Library.
Rose Adler, binding decorated with angular vertical panels, gilded by Adolphe Cuzin, on Frédéric Charles Longchamp, Les vices capitaux, illustrated by Vassiliaky Photiadès and with calligraphy by Charles Ducret (Paris and Lausanne: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1922). Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Rose Adler, two bindings, the first decorated with a streaming band and the second with a grid panel, on Philippe Auguste Mathias, comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Trois contes cruels (Paris: Société de la Gravure sur Bois Originale, 1927) and Prosper Mérimée, Carmen (edition not identified). Reproduced from Rose Adler, Reliures présenté par Rose Adler (Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1929]), plate 37.
Rose Adler, binding decorated with kicking limbs, on Colette, L'Envers du music-hall, illustrated by Jean-Émile Laboureur (Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1926). Reproduced from Rose Adler, Reliures présenté par Rose Adler (Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1929]), plate 49.
Pierre Begrain, binding decorated with spotlights and light-beams, on Colette, L'Envers du music-hall, illustrated by Jean-Émile Laboureur (Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1926). Reproduced from Rose Adler, Reliures présenté par Rose Adler (Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1929]), plate 42.
Rose Adler, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a panel of short bands (1931), on Tristan Bernard, Tableau de la boxe, illustrated by André Dunoyer de Segonzac (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922). Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.
Rose Adler, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with spaced horizontal and slanting lines (1948), on Paul-Jean Toulet, Les contrerimes,illustrated by Jean-Émile Laboureur (Paris: H.-M. Petiet, 1930). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Germaine Schroeder, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a ribbon title over a check pattern, on Jean Giraudoux, Juliette au pays des hommes, illustrated by Charles Laborde (Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1926). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Andrée and Jeanne Langrand, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a geometric band at foot, on Alfred de Vigny, Daphné (Paris:
Mme. Marot-Rodde, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with parallel vertical lines massed at right, on Gustave Geffroy, L'Apprentie, illustrated by Auguste Brouet and printed at Imprimerie Lahure (Paris: Frédéric Grégoire, 1924). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
François-Louis Schmied, maquette with a design of vertical panels, for a binding for La création: les trois premiers livres de la Genèse suivis de la généalogie adamique, translated by J.-C. Mardrus (Paris: Schmied, 1928). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, upper cover of binding decorated with vertical panels, executed by Georges Cretté with panel lacquered by Jean Dunand, on La création: les trois premiers livres de la Genèse suivis de la généalogie adamique, translated by J.-C. Mardrus (Paris: Schmied, 1928). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, maquette with a depiction of King Solomon, for upper cover of binding for Le cantique des cantiques, translated by Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, upper cover of binding decorated with a geometric pattern and a depiction of King Solomon on a panel lacquered by Jean Dunand, on Le cantique des cantiques, translated by Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, maquette with a design of a stylized garden, for lower cover of binding for Le cantique des cantiques, translated by Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, lower cover of binding decorated 5.47. François-Louis Schmied, lower cover of binding decorated with a geometric pattern and a stylized depiction of a garden on a panel lacquered by Jean Dunand, on Le cantique des cantiques, translated by Ernest Renan (Paris: Schmied, 1925). Frank Altschul Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
François-Louis Schmied, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with geometric forms and vertical line of bubbles, on La création: les trois premiers livres de la Genèse suivis de la généalogie adamique, translated by J.-C. Mardrus (Paris: Schmied, 1928). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Georges Cretté, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with floral corner-pieces, on Marcel Proust, À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Georges Cretté, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with bands at head and foot, on Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées, illustrated by Frank Brangwyn (Paris: Helleu & Sergent, 1927). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Georges Cretté, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with floral enamel by Jean Goulden, on Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, XII élégies, illustrated by Charles Guérin and printed by Marius Audin (Paris: Cercle Lyonnais du Livre, 1925). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Georges Cretté, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a bird above dots and lines, on André Suarès, Le livre d'émeraude, illustrated by Auguste Brouet and printed by Robert Coulouma (Paris: Éditions d'Art Devambez, 1927). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Henri Creuzevault, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with horizontal lines, on Gus Bofa, Synthèses littéraires et extra littéraires, introduced by Roland Dorgelès (Paris: Mornay, 1923). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Henri Creuzevault, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a geometric pattern incorporating lettering, on Paul Valéry, Discours (Paris: Javal & Bourdeaux, 1928). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Henri Creuzevault, binding decorated with crossing diagonal lines, on Francis Carco, Quelques-unes, illustrated by Louis Legrand and printed by Maurice Darantière (Paris: Pro Amicis, 1931). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Henri Creuzevault, upper cover and spine of binding decorated with a panel containing a stylized landscape, on Maurice Denis, Carnets de voyage en Italie, 1921-1922, printed at L'Imprimerie Lahure and by Marcel Lacou and Émile Lainé (Paris: Jacques Beltrand, 1925). Gordon N. Ray Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library.
Robert Bonfils, upper cover of binding decorated with letters in a circular arrangement, on Revue musicale, Special Number for 1921 (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française). Morgan A. Gunst Collection, Stanford University Library.
René Kieffer, upper cover of binding decorated with letters over curved lines (1927), on Blaise Cendrars, La fin du monde, filmée par l'Agne N.-D., illustrated by Fernand Léger (Paris: Éditions de la Sirène, 1919). Morgan A. Gunst Collection, Stanford University Library.
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