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JOYCE AND MATISSE JOYCE (JAMES) Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse, NUMBER 960 OF 1500 COPIES SIGNED BY MATISSE on the colophon, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935 image 1
JOYCE AND MATISSE JOYCE (JAMES) Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse, NUMBER 960 OF 1500 COPIES SIGNED BY MATISSE on the colophon, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935 image 2
JOYCE AND MATISSE JOYCE (JAMES) Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse, NUMBER 960 OF 1500 COPIES SIGNED BY MATISSE on the colophon, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935 image 3
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JOYCE AND MATISSE
JOYCE (JAMES) Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse, NUMBER 960 OF 1500 COPIES SIGNED BY MATISSE on the colophon, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935

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JOYCE AND MATISSE

JOYCE (JAMES) Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse, NUMBER 960 OF 1500 COPIES SIGNED BY MATISSE on the colophon, 6 soft-ground etched plates by Matisse, 20 plates after Matisse's sketches printed on blue and yellow paper, publisher's buckram with abstract design including Matisse's Nausicaa embossed in gilt on upper cover (slight abrasion) [Slocum & Cahoon A22; The Artist and the Book 197], 4to, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1935

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A fine collaboration between two of the great literary and artistic figures of the twentieth century. Matisse's etchings are based on Homer's Odyssey.

Provenance: Christie's, 7 June 2006, lot 207.

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