361 - Wassily Kandinsky. Regards sur le passé. Translated by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia. Ten original woodcuts. Paris, Pierre Belfond 1971. With ten full-page woodcuts, five of which are in color. Loose double-page spreads in the original cover and original linen slipcase.

Wassily Kandinsky. Regards sur le passé. Translated by Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia. Ten original woodcuts. Paris, Pierre Belfond 1971. With ten full-page woodcuts, five of which are in color. Loose double-page spreads in the original cover and original linen slipcase. Starting time: approx. 4:30 p.m. (schedule subject to change) Unnumbered copy of the second special edition, with an extra suite of all ten woodcuts on Japanese paper (total print run of 120). - The colophon is signed by Nina Kandinsky, the artist’s widow and administrator of his estate. - Printed by Fequet et Baudier; the woodcuts were printed by Duval from the original blocks in the estate. - The book was published as volume 50 of the “Cahiers du Regard” series and contains ten woodcuts that were reproduced in Kandinsky’s famous sketchbook *Klänge* in 1913. They illustrate the French translation of his autobiographical essay “Retrospectives,” which was also published in 1913 as an afterword to the early monograph “Kandinsky 1901–1913” by Herwart Walden’s publishing house Der Sturm in Berlin. Roethel 106, 113, 124, 134, 146, 126, 127, 100, 143, and 73 38 × 29 cm. [4], 63, [9] pages; 10 woodcuts. - A few pages with minor fading; the sheets of the suite mostly have some foxing along the right margin. English description: With ten full-page woodcuts, five of which are in color. Loose double-page sheets in the original envelope and original cloth slipcase. Unnumbered copy of the second special edition, featuring an additional suite of all ten woodcuts on Japanese paper (total print run of 120). - Signed by Nina Kandinsky, the artist’s widow and administrator of his estate. - Printed by Fequet et Baudier; Duval printed the woodcuts from the original blocks in the estate. - The book was published as volume 50 of the series “Cahiers du Regard” and contains ten woodcuts that were reproduced in Kandinsky’s famous sketchbook “Klänge” in 1913. They illustrate the French translation of his autobiographical essay “Rückblicke,” which had also been published in 1913 as an afterword to the early monograph “Kandinsky 1901–1913” by Herwart Walden’s publishing house Der Sturm in Berlin. A few pages show minor foxing; most pages in the suite have some foxing along the right margin.