Catalogue des Manuscrits, Grands Papiers, Editions Originales, Gravures, Dessins, Aquarelles et Tableaux Modernes de la...
Frontis. port. & eight full-page illus. (all black & white). Large 8vo (240 x 157 mm.), orig. printed wrappers, staple-bound. Paris: 1935.
The rare auction catalogue of Carco’s art collection and library. Carco (1886-1958), the celebrated writer and journalist and early devotee of Modigliani’s work, often went to Montmartre and there befriended artists such as Utrillo, Max Jacob, Eugène Paul, and Modigliani, with whom he developed a close friendship. An amateur art historian, Carco wrote Le Nu dans la peinture moderne: 1863-1920 (1924), in which he refers to a number of works in his collection. An earlier sale of paintings... More