Les Réincarnations du père Ubu

Les Réincarnations du père Ubu is an original Rare Book illustrated by Georges Rouault (born May 27, 1871, Paris, France—died February 13, 1958, Paris) in 1932.

Original First Edition in this Version.

Published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris.

Format: In Folio. The dimensions of the book are indicative. 

Five numbered and signed copies du tirage de tête (copy n°2).

The book included 192 + 192 pages with 104 woodcuts and two sets of 22 etchings  (one on Montval and one on Arches).

The book is accompanied by Rouault’s manuscript for the preface written in black ink on pencil. Two bifolia plus the proof printed text with Rouault’s corrections and 12 pages in wrappers with manuscript title.    

Very good conditions.  

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Georges Rouault, in full Georges-Henri Rouault, (born May 27, 1871, Paris, France—died February 13, 1958, Paris), French painter, printmaker, ceramicist, and maker of stained glass who, drawing inspiration from French medieval masters, united religious and secular traditions divorced since the Renaissance. Rouault was born in a cellar in Paris during a bombardment of the city by the forces opposed to the Commune. His father was a cabinetmaker. A grandfather took an interest in art and owned a collection of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs; Rouault said later that he “went first to school with Daumier.” In 1885 he enrolled in an evening course at the Paris École des Arts Décoratifs. From 1885 to 1890 he was apprenticed in a glazier’s workshop; his mature style as a painter was undoubtedly influenced by his work on the restoration of medieval stained-glass windows, including those of Chartres cathedral. In 1891 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he soon became one of the favourite pupils of the Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, in a class that also included the young Henri Matisse and Albert Marquet. After the death of Moreau in 1898, a small Paris museum was created for his pictures, and Rouault became the curator.