Les Petites Fleurs De St. Francois (from Les Fioretti)

 

Maurice Denis

  1870 - 1943

1913  

5 color woodcuts (4 progressive proofs and one finished) 

approx. 5-1/2 x 5-15/16" each image size 

unsigned, as usual 

unnumbered, outside the published edition of 120 

 

Roger-Marx 66 

four individual color blocks on China proofing paper; final image on ivory wove 

published 

M. Gabriel Thomas, Paris 

21469 

SOLD

Proofs for the book "Fioretti - The Small Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi" published in 1913. Hailed in its time as one of the finest illustrated religious manuscripts of the modern age, "Fioretti" included 79 color woodcut illustrations by Denis.