PELLERIN, Jean, PICARD, Gaston and ORLOFF, Chana. Figures of - Lot 261

PELLERIN, Jean, PICARD, Gaston and ORLOFF, Chana. Figures of today illustrated with forty-one portraits by Chana Orloff. First edition of this portrait gallery of the great artists of the first half of the 20th century by Chana Orloff. Paris, E.-F. d'Alignan, 1923. Large in-8 paperback, cream filled cover printed in black. 204 pages, 41 portraits pasted on hors-texte plates, in a red frame. Spine wrinkled, crease marks on front cover, slight browning and minor foxing on cover and edges. First edition of this gallery of 41 portraits of contemporary artists (writers, painters, musicians, etc.) by Chana Orloff, including George Braque, Jean Cocteau, André Derain, Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob and Fernand Léger. Limited edition of 405 copies, this one of 350 on Lafuma Madagascar paper (N°69). Ex-libris "J. de C." dated 1930 and hand-signed on a flyleaf. Clean and fresh inside.