Auction details
10:00 AM PT - Sep 30th, 2004
offered by
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
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Lot 2014002
ALASTAIR [Hans Henning von Voight, pseud.] Fif
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INSCRIBED BY VAN VECHTEN TO WIFE, WITH WATERCOLOR. ALASTAIR [Hans Henning von Voight, pseud.] Fifty Drawings. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. 50 collotype reproductions of drawings by Alastair, several in color, with lettered tissue guards. 4to, publisher's cloth-backed decorated covers, edges a bit rubbed.<\t>New York, 1925
inscribed by van vechten to his wife, fania marinoff, in the month of publication, and with an original watercolor by alastair. The inscription reads: "For my bobbed-haired bride with all my love - These drawings of a vague vice. Carlo. November 19, 1925." With Marinoff's bookplate on front pastedown, designed by willy pogany. The watercolor of a woman in a Victorian dress, holding a veil, is colored in brown, black, pink, turquoise, and gold, measuring 280x220mm. Signed by Alastair on verso.
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