
Lot 127•
IACOVLEFF (ALEXANDRE) Dessins et peintures d'Asie. Exécutés au cours de l'Expedition Citroen Centre-Asie. Deuxième mission Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil, NUMBER 313 OF 500 COPIES, Paris, Jules Meynel, [1927]
1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,750 inc. premium
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IACOVLEFF (ALEXANDRE)
Dessins et peintures d'Asie. Exécutés au cours de l'Expedition Citroen Centre-Asie. Deuxième mission Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil, NUMBER 313 OF 500 COPIES, 50 colour plates (on 49 sheets, plates 1-2 one sheet), uncoloured illustrations in the text, text in publisher's suede-backed decorative silk, plates loose as issued, light spotting to upper wrapper of plate 1, small loss to blank margin of final plate, without original chemise and box, folio (385 x 283mm.), Paris, Jules Meynel, [1927]
Footnotes
A magnificent set of portraits of the peoples of central Africa, with several landscapes and animal studies. Iacovleff was artist to the second Citroën mission to Africa led by Georges Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil during 1924-5.