Raoul Dufy, Guillaume Apollinaire, and others
Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d’Orphrée
1910
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- Artist: Raoul Dufy
- Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
- Publisher: Deplanche
- Printer: Gauthier-Villars
- Binder: Léon Gruel
Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d’Orphrée
1910
Physical Qualities
Bound volume with woodcuts and letterpress, Book: 330 x 260 mm. (13 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Fund
Object Number
2013.226
Bound volume with woodcuts (30 large woodcuts and 5 woodcut ornaments) and letterpress. Bound by Léon Gruel in green leather with gold embossing. Book plate inside front cover with initials "E I"
Apollinaire first published the "Bestiary" in 1908 and then approached Dufy about making accompanying images.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2013; Ursus Books, Ltd., New York
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
