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193 - VAN DONGEN (K.) - HASSAN BADREDDINE EL BASSRAOUI. Tales from the 1,001 Nights. Paris, Les Editions de la Sirène, 1918. Large quarto in folio format, with the publisher’s illustrated cover.
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VAN DONGEN (K.) - HASSAN BADREDDINE EL BASSRAOUI. Tales from the 1,001 Nights. Paris, Les Editions de la Sirène, 1918. Large quarto in folio format, with the publisher’s illustrated cover. ONE OF 83 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER (No. 22). Total print run of 310 copies. Illustrated edition featuring 7 full-color watercolors (separate plates) reproduced by stencil, 67 full-page drawings, and 42 black-and-white drawings in the text, by Kees Van Dongen. One of the most beautiful publications by Editions de la Sirène (1917–1937) and Kees Van Dongen’s (1877–1968) first foray into the world of illustrated books. Translated by Dr. Joseph-Charles Mardrus (1868–1949). This is the tale of the fourteenth night. It is complete with the four so-called “censored” drawings. Rust-stains on the cover. Vallès-Bled, Van Dongen, du Nord et du Sud, Musée de Lodève, 2004, pp. 162–177, nos. 63–68 (“This illustration, which remains one of the artist’s major works of Orientalism, enjoyed immense success”). Juffermans (J.), Kees Van Dongen. The Graphic Work, Blaricum, V+K Publishing, 2002, pp. 122–125, no. JB 1.
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