[DANTE ALIGHIERI] Franz von BAYROS
Illustrations to La divina Commedia
Wien: Amalthea Verlag, 1921.
Portfolio of 60 color plates (7-5/8 x 6-5/8 in.) after Franz Von Bayros, mounted on loose heavy wove sheets (13 x 10 in.), in a tied portfolio covered in white Genji silk brocade over original inscribed boards, cased in a clamshell box in quarter cream shagreen and green-gold Genji cloud-pattern silk bookcloth. Slight occasional marginal nicks and edge toning to mounting sheets, otherwise fine. The exquisite color printing is heightened in gold. The texts from La divina Commedia (in Dante's original Italian) contained within framing devices on each plate are rendered on the first 24 plates in open letters resembling carving on stone.
These plates derive from the three-volume Amalthea Verlag quarto edition of Die göttliche Komödie, the German translation by Otto Gildemeister, edited by Karl Toth. The edition was justified at 1,100 copies signed by Bayros on the colophon. According to a letter dated July 30, 1926 from Atlantic Book and Art Corporation, New York City, to Charles C. Cannon, Chief of Acquisitions of the New York Public Library, laid in with the Library's set, the demand for the plates outstripped the demand for the translation, and a number of sets of the plates were sold loose, without title page, binding or any other apparatus. The inscription on the original portfolio board of this set likewise dates its purchase to New York, 1926.
While his early art looks back to the linear eroticism of Audrey Beardsley, whose Decadent influence he championed, Bayros's richly detailed mature, suffused Pre-Raphaelite style evidenced in La divina Commedia incorporates the more sophisticated influence of Gustav Klimt, Alphonse Mucha and Koloman Moser which marked the birth of the new century.
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Price: SOLD
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Illustrations to La divina Commedia
Wien: Amalthea Verlag, 1921.
Portfolio of 60 color plates (7-5/8 x 6-5/8 in.) after Franz Von Bayros, mounted on loose heavy wove sheets (13 x 10 in.), in a tied portfolio covered in white Genji silk brocade over original inscribed boards, cased in a clamshell box in quarter cream shagreen and green-gold Genji cloud-pattern silk bookcloth. Slight occasional marginal nicks and edge toning to mounting sheets, otherwise fine. The exquisite color printing is heightened in gold. The texts from La divina Commedia (in Dante's original Italian) contained within framing devices on each plate are rendered on the first 24 plates in open letters resembling carving on stone.
These plates derive from the three-volume Amalthea Verlag quarto edition of Die göttliche Komödie, the German translation by Otto Gildemeister, edited by Karl Toth. The edition was justified at 1,100 copies signed by Bayros on the colophon. According to a letter dated July 30, 1926 from Atlantic Book and Art Corporation, New York City, to Charles C. Cannon, Chief of Acquisitions of the New York Public Library, laid in with the Library's set, the demand for the plates outstripped the demand for the translation, and a number of sets of the plates were sold loose, without title page, binding or any other apparatus. The inscription on the original portfolio board of this set likewise dates its purchase to New York, 1926.
While his early art looks back to the linear eroticism of Audrey Beardsley, whose Decadent influence he championed, Bayros's richly detailed mature, suffused Pre-Raphaelite style evidenced in La divina Commedia incorporates the more sophisticated influence of Gustav Klimt, Alphonse Mucha and Koloman Moser which marked the birth of the new century.
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Price: SOLD
Inquiries: mail@mobysnewt.com
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