LA TENTATION DE SAINT ANTOINE

by Arthur Szyk, Gustave Flaubert, Jean Saudé

$1,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Paris: Henri Reynaud, 1926 . Limited first edition thus, illustrated by Szyk and gloriously hand-colored in pochoir by J. Saudé, of the French novelist's retelling of Saint Anthony in the desert. Near fine. Item #55705 Jean Saudé was a master colorist of the pochoir process, brought to its height by the French in this era. His plates are among the most complicated and elaborate among practitioners, and highly

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