[Africa]. IACOVLEF, Alexandre. - Lot 227

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[Africa]. IACOVLEF, Alexandre. - Lot 227
[Africa]. IACOVLEF, Alexandre. Drawings and Paintings of Africa Created During the Citroën Central African Expedition. Second Haardt and Audouin-Dubreuil Mission. Sketches from the Road and Travel Notes Paris, Lucien Vogel, published by Jules Meynial, (1927). Folio volume containing Iacovleff’s 50 color drawings reproduced in facsimile (the first double-page plate is numbered 1–2), preceded by a black silk booklet decorated with painted African motifs, containing the traveling painter’s notes, accompanied by numerous black-and-white drawings. The set is housed in a brown buffalo-leather slipcase with flaps and laces provided by the publisher, featuring the title cold-stamped on the front cover (laces damaged, some scuffing and wear, very slight oxidation). A famous collection of drawings, among Iacovleff’s finest. One of 1,000 numbered “Grand Luxe” copies, in which the notebook of notes was printed on Madagascar Lafuma paper and the plates on Vélin Pur Chiffon Lafuma paper. This copy, No. 132, is one of 250 non-commercial copies numbered in red, dedicated to Adolphe Kegresse. Dated May 1, 1927, and bearing the publisher’s printed signature. Carteret, Illustrés, IV, 213. Monod, 6237.
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