Programmes Ballets Russes
€650.00
Two original program booklets from Serge Diaghilev’s legendary Ballets Russes, featuring contributions by avant-garde artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Sert, and de Chirico. Rare artifacts of interdisciplinary modernism between dance, visual art, and typography during the interwar period.
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José-Maria Sert
Giorgio de Chirico
Matisse, Henri
Programmes Ballets Russes
1920 | Paris | Les Publications Willy Fischer
Two visually striking documents of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes’ radical impact on modern art and theater.
Two original program booklets from Serge Diaghilev’s legendary Ballets Russes, featuring contributions by avant-garde artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Sert, and de Chirico. Rare artifacts of interdisciplinary modernism between dance, visual art, and typography during the interwar period.
€650
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The first program (1919–1920) features a Picasso costume for Pulcinella, a Matisse portrait of Massine, and a Sert design on the back. The second, from 1929, includes photos (e.g. Danilova), a list of 14 performances, and a cover by Giorgio de Chirico.
Dubuffet, Jean
12 PHOTOGRAPHIES D'ŒUVRES
Other
€830
Rouveyre · Leonor Fini · Matisse, Henri
Hommage. Dessins de Matisse
A unique homage to Henri Matisse, published in Monaco during the final stages of World War II. This remarkable book blends literature, photography and visual art, featuring contributions from some of the leading French artists of the 20th century. It includes poetry by Paul Éluard, an essay by André Rouveyre, and a suite of Matisse drawings, complemented by a striking frontispiece by Leonor Fini and an original photograph by Brassaï.
Other
€975
Dubuffet, Jean
Cartes à jouer et à tirer
In 1967, Jean Dubuffet partnered with London’s Editions Alecto on *Cartes à jouer et à tirer*, playfully recasting his visual vocabulary into the scale of a deck of cards. The set comprises 52 separate cards, each silkscreen-printed, forming a quirky alphabet of lines, planes, and scribbled textures. The title invites action—both “to play” and “to draw”—letting chance and handling shape meaning. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase, the work sits between artist’s book and portable multiple. This hors commerce copy, marked H.C. 11, is in notably fresh condition. It exemplifies Dubuffet’s anti-aesthetic joined to technical exactitude, an irresistible proposition for bibliophiles at the book-object threshold.
Other
€2,750
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso
Futurismo – Le Futurisme. Revue
synthétique illustrée
This rare group brings together three issues of *Futurismo – Le Futurisme*, a bilingual and internationally minded Futurist review from the early 1920s. The leaves show Futurism moving beyond the manifesto, fusing theatre, typography, image, and mechanical modernity into a single provocative form. Especially notable is the pairing of the French and Italian versions of *Le Théâtre de la Surprise / Il Teatro della Sorpresa* with the later French issue devoted to *L’Art mécanique*. The group reflects the Futurist ambition to accelerate art, internationalize it, and insert it directly into modern life. For collectors of the avant-garde, such ephemeral periodical material is often rarer than canonical book publications.
