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Artists' book Les tombeaux by Georges Rodenbach
James Pitcairn-Knowles, 1895

Artists' book Les tombeaux by Georges Rodenbach

1895, James Pitcairn-Knowles (1864 - 1914)

three woodcuts and letterpress printing in black on laid paper and a cover of grey green laid paper with a woodcut in two colours, bound in a hardcover, 25.3 cm x 17.7 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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p1793V2000
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25.3 cm x 17.7 cm

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Ce petit livre, imaginé par deux amis : Joseph Rippl-Rónai et James Pitcairn-Knowles, au temps de la fête de Noël, en l'année 1895, a paru sous la bonne protection de M. S. Bing à Paris. La petite histoire est de George Rodenbach. Les simples images sont de James Pitcairn-Knowles.
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Le texte a été imprimé par Chamerot et Renouard, 19, rue des Saints-Pères, à Paris.

  • par François Fossier, La nébuleuse Nabie : les Nabis et l'art graphique, 1993, p. 258-259
  • Claire Frèches-Thory, Antoine Terrasse, Les Nabis, 2002, p. 247-250
  • ed. by Patricia Eckert Boyer ; with essays Patricia Eckert Boyer and Elizabeth Prelinger, The Nabis and the Parisian Avant-Garde, cop. 1988, p. 102-104, 162
  • Marieke Jooren, The painter as illustrator livres d'artistes in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum = De schilder als illustrator : livres d'artistes in de collectie van het Van Gogh Museum, p. 91-93, 97-101
  • Richard Pitcairn-Knowles, Jeremy Howard, 'The unfinished monk' : the life & work of reclusive artist James Pitcairn-Knowles, 1863-1954, 2013, p. 56-60

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