FOUJITA. BRINDEJOINT-OFFENBACH, Jacques. - Lot 179

FOUJITA. BRINDEJOINT-OFFENBACH, Jacques. The Amusements of Eros. Love Poems Illustrated with Watercolors by Foujita. Paris, Jean Coren, 1927. Quarto, frontispiece, 8 plates by Tsuguharu Foujita, and 20 repeated end-piece illustrations, including one on the title page, all stencil-colored. Loose sheets, in the publisher’s slipcase. A fine copy. The half-title page is adorned with an ink-and-watercolor drawing by Foujita, signed in French and Japanese, depicting two female busts. Limited edition of 296 numbered copies. One of 10 printed on pearlescent Japanese paper, following a single copy printed on antique Japanese paper; this one is No. 5. Complete with the two supplementary sets, in black and in color, on MBM watermarked vellum. With the artist’s autograph signature on the endpaper. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region. “Sought-after edition,” Carteret, IV, 83.