442 - Gunnar Kaldewey - Jaufre Rudel. Troubadour de Blaye. Lanquan · Li Jorn · Son Lonc · En Mai. Poestenkill, New York 2016. Includes four inkjet prints based on watercolors by Gunnar A. Kaldewey. Original half-leather binding with orange velour paper cover linings and a leather title label. In a slipcase and box. (Thomas Zwang, Hamburg).

Gunnar Kaldewey - Jaufre Rudel. Troubadour de Blaye. Lanquan · Li Jorn · Son Lonc · En Mai. Poestenkill, New York 2016. Includes four inkjet prints based on watercolors by Gunnar A. Kaldewey. Original half-leather binding with orange velour paper cover linings and a leather title label. In a slipcase and box. (Thomas Zwang, Hamburg). Auction start time: approx. 5:24 p.m. (Schedule subject to change) Kaldewey Press 84. — One of ten “deluxe copies” featuring three additional original watercolors: one full-sheet and signed, two mounted and framed with gold lines (total edition of 35). — Signed and numbered by the artist in the colophon. - Text in Occitan as well as in English and German translations, printed on Johannot paper. - One of the few surviving poems by the “first-generation troubadour,” which had a lasting influence on poets such as Dante, Petrarch, Leopardi, Heine, Browning, and Ezra Pound. - The book was created in Gunnar Kaldewey’s studio in southern France. Cat. Bennington, p. 40 (lists 5 inkjet prints) 33.5 : 25.7 cm. [48] pages, 3 watercolors. - A few isolated, faint foxing spots. English description: Includes four inkjet prints based on watercolors by Gunnar A. Kaldewey. Original half-leather binding with orange velour paper cover linings and a leather title label. In chemise and slipcase. Kaldewey Press 84. - One of ten “deluxe copies” featuring three additional watercolors: one full-sheet and signed, two mounted and framed with gold lines (total edition of 35). - Signed and numbered by the artist in the colophon. - Contrary to the catalog raisonné, which lists only four inkjet prints. - Text in Occitan, as well as in English and German translations, printed on Johannot paper. - “Jaufré Rudel (1100–1148), a first-generation troubadour, invented the motif of ‘longing for a distant love’ (l’Amour de loin). His few surviving poems have had a lasting influence on poets ranging from Dante and Petrarch to Leopardi, Heine, Browning, and Ezra Pound. The book, in bright Mediterranean colors, was created in my studio in the South of France.” (Artist Books 2011–2017, p. 40) A few isolated, faint foxing spots.