Les horribles et espovantables faictz et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel roy des dipsodes fils du grand géant Gargantua

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Les horribles et espovantables faictz et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel roy des dipsodes fils du grand géant Gargantua

Pantagruel roy des dipsodes fils du grand géant Gargantua

Illustrated by: André Derain (French, 1880–1954)
Author: François Rabelais (French, about 1490–1553?)
Publisher: Albert Skira (Swiss, 1904–1973)
Printer: Roger Lacourière (French, 1892–1966)

1943

Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with hand-inked color woodcuts

Dimensions Overall (without portfolio): 35 x 28.7 x 4.5 cm (13 3/4 x 11 5/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line William A. Sargent Fund

Accession Number2010.503

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CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsIllustrated books

Paris: Albert Skira, 1943

Catalogue Raisonné Artist and the Book 81; From Manet to Hockney 111

Description(Paris: Albert Skira, 1943) 35 cm, unbound; 187 pp. [3 ff.]; original publisher's tan paper wrapper, woodcut title laid down on upper wrapper, original tan paper board portfolio and slipcase.

Signed Pen and black ink below colophon: "A Derain"

ProvenanceSacks Collection, New York; Ursus Rare Books Ltd., New York; 2009, sold by Ursus Rare Books to the MFA. (Acquisition date: June 16, 2010)