TRIBUTE TO WOMAN A STATUE BY BORIS LOVET- LORSKI TEXT BY JOHN ERSKINE

[Paris: Printed by Braun & Co., 1932. Folio. Loose sheets of heavy stock, laid into metallic silver wrapper, with remnants of black paper inner sleeve. Eight tipped-in photogravures (ca. 24 x 16 cm), each with a glassine guard. Small chips, edge tears and smudges to edges of blank endleaves, black portfolio flap chipped at hinge. Outer metallic wrapper exhibits small chips and snags at corners and spine ends. Good, or better, the photogravures in fine state, in bit scuffed later acetate wrapper with label residue on flap. First (limited) edition, this being copy #106 of 275 numbered copies, from a total of 300 copies. Inscribed on a blank prelim: "For Katherine With Love from Boris 1940 [?]." The photogravures are printed on Montval made by Caspard Maillol. A tribute to a specific sculpture by the artist, expanded to a paean to all women. A second edition was published in the 1960s. Boris Lovet-Lorski (Lithuanian/American 1894-1973), was a major contributor to the American Art Deco style of the 1920's. Lovet-Lorski's work is held in the collections of the Luxembourg Museum, Paris; Petit Palais, Paris; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; British Museum, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Diego Fine Arts Society; Los Angeles Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; Boston University; and Columbia University. (Inventory #: WRCLIT66054)