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Constantin Brancusi, James Joyce, and others

Tales Told of Shem and Shaun: Three Fragments from Work in Progress

1928

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Tales Told of Shem and Shaun: Three Fragments from Work in Progress

1928

Physical Qualities Bound volume with photogravure, Book: 211 x 168 x 9 mm. (8 5/16 x 6 5/8 x 3/8 in.) Other (page): 207 x 166 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchased in Memory of Katherine Baden Stewart with funds contributed by her Friends and Colleagues
Object Number 2001.340
Photogravure (Portrait of the Author) is bound in the book opposite page 1
Brenda Edelson, Baltimore
Castleman, Riva, A Century of Artists Books, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Dist. by Harry N. Abrams, NY, p. 184. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Harvard College Library, The Artist & The Book 1860-1960 in Western Europe and the United States, exh. 1961, p. 28. Beach pp. 133-135 [?]

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: BLC: '[artist signature] C. Brancusi'

Markings: - - -

Artist

Constantin Brancusi

1875–1956

French, born Romania, 1876-1957
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Author

James Joyce

1881–1940

Irish, 1882-1941
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Publisher

The Black Sun Press

2000–2000

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