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(German Expressionism) Meier-Graefe, Julius (editor)
GANYMED-Mappe 3: Radierungen, Lithographien und Holzschnitte.
Munchen: Piper & Co., Verlag der Marees-Geselschaft, 1924, first edition, one of 100 deluxe copies (total deluxe edition); complete portfolio with 14 prints, each signed by the respective artist in pencil, except for the Picasso and Renoir prints. One leaf with index and 14 loose prints in individual passepartouts, one each by: 1) Lovis Corinth (”Frauenbildnis”, original lithograph in black, signed, Muller 684); 2) Adolf Schinnerer (”Uberfahrt”, original etching printed in sepia, signed); 3) Hugo Troendle (”Brucke”, original lithograph in black, signed); 4) Max Beckmann (”Bildnis des Schauspielers N. M. Zeretelli”, original drypoint etching in back, signed, Hofmaier 301b); 5) Rudolf Grossmann (”Jahrmarkt”, original etching in black, signed); 6) Hans Gott (”Schlafendes Madchen”, drypoint etching printed in sanguine, signed); 7) Felix Meseck (”Jagd”, original etching in black, signed); 8) Erich Heckel (”Liegende” or ”Frau”, a magnificent original color woodcut, signed, Dube 259.II.B); 9) Wassily Kandinsky (”Composition”, a beautiful original woodcut, signed, Roethel 181); 10) Karl Caspar (”Kluge Jungfrau”, a very handsome original color lithograph, signed); 11) Otto Nuckel (”Regenwetter”, steel original engraving, signed); 12) Franz Hecht (”Holzschnitt Nach Einem Alt-Italienischen Meister”, original woodcut in blacks, signed); 13) Pablo Picasso (”Drei Frauen an Einer Quelle”, a very handsome unsigned lithograph in sanguine after a drawing); and 14) Auguste Renoir (”Madchen, den Strumpf Anziehend”, large unsigned lithograph after a drawing, initialed in the plate). All prints housed in the original folding portfolio case with flaps, internally very clean and crisp, the case with very minor wear and soiling, overall size 20 x 13.5 in. (50 x 34 cm). There also was a book edition of Ganymed in 5 volumes, in which some of these prints were reproduced in a smaller format, unsigned (see Jentsch no. 74).
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