Roger-Marx, Claude — Dunoyer de Segonzac

Geneve, Switzerland, Pierre Cailler, 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Softcover copy in tall, heavy quarto softcover format, with bruised and scuffed tips, illustrated softpaper wraps, in gate-fold, and with tight binding and clean internals. Protected now in stiff Mylar chunks of which at spine spine head and front panel bottom are missing. Previous owner's embossed stamp at first free endpaper. Fine black-and-white illustration to front cover, and then several score tipped-in reproductions of de Segonzac's work including at frontis. 162 pp. illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates and with 15 tipped-in color plates. [8], 9, [2], 13-116 [4] pp. then 161 plates, then Documents including bibliography, index and Table of Contents. Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac (6 July 1884 – 17 September 1974) was a French painter and graphic artist of no little note, born in Boussy-Saint-Antoine and hving lived there and in Paris most of his life. Attending art school and a military prep school early on, he matriculated at the Academie de La Palette, studying under or alongside, eventually, Jacques Emile Blanche Jean Metzinger and Henri Le Fauconnier. He participated in the infamous Armory Show that opened in New York in 1913, with subsequent showings in Chicago and Boston. He eventually married the French actress Therese Dorny and died at the age of 90 in 1974.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good