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GALANIS, DEMETRIOS [and] GIDE, ANDRE. "Les nourritures terrestres" |
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Start date: 23/09/2011 09:00 |
End date: 03/10/2011 21:00 |
Estimation: 700-1200€ |
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GALANIS, DEMETRIOS [and] GIDE, ANDRE. "Les nourritures terrestres" |
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Genre: ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF ENGRAVING
[Paris]: Gallimard, 1930.
4to (289 x 235 mm). xiii, 340 pages.
Limited and numbered edition 1 - 6, on vieux Japon paper. "The foods of the earth" on texts by Andre Gide. 47 copper-plate engravings (9 full page, 35 within text, 2 drop caps, outside cover). Luxury edition. Bookbinding: seamed bi-fold sheets, soft covers, wrapper and case.
French language.
[Bibliography: Mavrommatis page 510, Dictionary of Greek Artists volume 1 page 237]
[Galanis, Demetrios (1879 - 1966): Greek painter, engraver, sketch
artist with an international career. Athens Polytechnic University
graduate. Studied drawing with
Greek painter Nikiphoros Lytras, studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de
Paris with teachers like F.
Cormon and B. Constant. He published his drawings at the Soleil de
Dimanche,
Frou-Frou, Le Rire, Le Sourire, L'Assiette au Beurre, Le Canard
Souvage, and others. In 1909 he settled at Monmarte and socialized with
J. Gris, A.
Matisse, P. Picasso, G. Braque, A. Derain.
Demetrios Galanis has had many solo exhibitions in Paris, London,
New York, Alexandria, Cairo, Lausanne, Biennale of Venice, Thessaloniki,
Athens. He has won many distinctions and awards. His works are located
in Greece and abroad in many museums, galleries, banks and private
collections. He has been a member of the Academy of Athens since 1950].
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