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Lot 71
IACOVLEFF, ALEXANDRE EVGENIEVICH Dessins et Peintures d'Afrique Executés au cours de l'Expédition Citroën Centre Afrique.
Paris: Meynial, 1927. First edition, copy 93 of 1,000 (i.e., this is one of the 250 numbered copies hors commerce); an exemplaire nominatif for Georges Leroy, additionally with a presentation from the artist dated 1927 on the front blank. Text bound in black silk covered boards, the upper cover stenciled with a design in white and red, housed with the plates in the original leather covered portfolio with leather ties by Félix. 15 x 11 inches (38 x 28 cm); 20 ff., with 49 plates numbered 1-50 (including one double-page); with two inserts, one an apparent prospectus for the work (including an unnumbered copy of plate 37, with slightly variant color), the other the brochure for the film La Croisière Noire at the Théatre National De L'Opéra. Some wear to the stenciled decoration of the text brochure, the slipcase a little soiled, but in all a clean example.
Iacovleff was the official artist of the Croisière Noire expedition, which crossed the African continent from north to south, travelling from Colomb-Béchar to Cape Town, between 28 October 1924 and 26 June 1925. This was one of several such expeditions sponsored by the car maker Citroën during the 1920s.
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