René Beeh

Die Schwarze Spinne - Vintage Rare Book Illustrated by René Beeh - 1918

1918

FruhlingsErwachen is an original modern rare book written by Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (1864 – 1918) and illustrated by Willi Geiger (Landshut, 1878 ...

Die Glucksritter is an original modern rare book illustrated by Hans Meid (1883 - 1957) and written by Josef Von Eichendorff (1788 – Nysa, 1857) in 1928. P...

Der Mantel is an original modern rare book written by Nikolaj Vasil'evič Gogol'-Janovskij (Velyki Soročynci, 1809 - Moscow, 1852) and illustrated by Walter Gramatté (Berlin, 1897 –...

Deutsches Dichterjubilaum is a book written by Arno Holz (1863 – 1929) and illustrated by Hans Steiner (1907-1962) and in 1923. Original First Edition. Published by Werkverlag, Be...

The Spider is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers). Catalogue - Cramer #37 The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work. Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential. For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate). These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...

A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce, important German Expressionist lithograph on smooth, cream wove paper. Edition of approximately only 20. Signed in pencil. Publ...

Seminal 1930 survey of early modernist furniture and interior design projects by known German and other European designers. Approximately 200 different designs featuring about 70 designs by Ludwig Kozma, who designed the striking red and black cover of the hardbound volume. Designers include Augenfeld, Brehaus, Hoffmann, Jeanneret, an early Paul Laszlo in Budapest, Le Corbusier, Sobotka, and Josef Frank, along with a host of lesser-known names. 196 pages, most filled with black and white plates...

Important and brilliantly edited survey of early modernist furniture and interiors. Written by Herbert Hoffmann and published by Julius Hoffmann in Stuttgart in 1930. Features work by a who's who of the period's top designers, including Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Donald Deskey, Maurice Dufresne, Paul Laszlo, Jaques Adnet, Rene Herbst, Eugene Printz, Fritz Brehaus, Andre Lurcat...