BELLAIGUE Jean Camille - Lot 21

BELLAIGUE Jean Camille Drive. Preface by Rip. Paris, Risacher et Cie, n. d. [c. 1925]. Portfolio in-4 in sheets under printed folder. (4) pp. of preface and 30 plates (28 x 19 cm) glued on tinted paper, engraved and watercoloured after the drawings of J. C. Bellaigue. Limited edition of 500 copies on Arches vellum. One of the 470 copies numbered and bearing the artist's autograph signature, this one n° 44. Tears and slight freckles on the shirt. Clean inside. Without the boxing. First, rare complete edition of the 30 humorous prints on cars and motorists by Jean Camille Bellaigue (1893-1931), French painter, draftsman, illustrator and engraver born in Paris. Absent from the BnF catalogue. Bénézit (ed. 1976), I, 591.