Beschreibung:

44 : 33,5 cm. 2 blank leaves, 152 pages, 4 (2 blank) leaves, 11 original colored lithographs by Juan Gris. Loose shetts as issued in illustrated original wrappers, original chemise of grey paper boards with title on spine, housed in the original matching slipcase.

Bemerkung:

One of the most beautiful 'Livre d'artiste'. - One of only 205 numbered copies. On paper 'Vélin d'Arches'. Imprint signed by Reverdy. " 'Au soleil du plafond' est un des seuls grand livres cubistes existants; il date de la plus belle époque de Juan Gris, celle où il avait atteint le plénitude de ses moyens" (Kat. Tériade). - Because of Reverdy?s close personal ties with the Cubist painters, for whom he was an enthusiastic and perspicacious apologist, and because (not surprisingly) there are certain similarities between the imagery of his poems and that of Cubist pictures, he has been termed a Cubist poet? (Michael Bullock). For him, "poems are the final result of that movement which, born in the most intimate regions of consciousness, end up on the outside, just as luminous bubbles rise to the surface from the depths of springs to burst and dissolve in the light.? His work was the subject of numerous artists? books, illustrated by such avant-garde artists as Braque, Laurens, Matisse, Modigliani and Picasso, in addition to Gris. Executed in 1916-17 and published posthumously, this monumental production by Gris reveals his "fastidious aesthetic logic. These geometric semi-abstractions are, in their way, faultlessly designed and exquisite in color and paint application? Bowl, book and candle are fragmented into prim facets of themselves? (Stuart Preston). The 11 plates from his original gouaches were printed by Fernand Mourlot, whose lithography press produced designs by such such greats as Braque, Matisse, Picasso and Miró. See Artist & the Book, 88-90. - Kahnweiler/Karpel, Bibliography 26; Rauch 102.