IACOVLEFF, Alexandre.

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Dessins et Peintures d'Afrique. First edition, limited issue, number 93 of 750, this copy printed for Georges Lery, to whom the author has inscribed the front free endpaper: "A Monsieur Georges Lery avec ma sympathie tres sincère A Iacovleff 1927". This album collects together highlights from Iacovleff's tenure as official painter of the Croisière noire, André Citroën's legendary automotive expedition which set out to cross the entire African continent for the first time by car. Portraits of people, wildlife, and towns make up the complete suite of prints, charting the unprecedented 20,000 kilometre journey across Africa in the 1920s.

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