The object of her attention is a reclining white woman who is nude and-what exactly? Sleeping, maybe posing, perhaps. Toward the right of the canvas, a black woman, clad in blue and smoking a cigarette, sits pensively on a bed. The Met has given special emphasis to the painting, and can you blame it for doing so? It’s an arresting picture. If only for the inclusion of T he White and the Black (1913), the retrospective of the Swiss painter and printmaker Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) merits its subtitle.
His library was sold in 1939 some of the books he owned have a ‘Château de Vertcoeur’ supralibros.Felix Vallotton, The White and the Black (1913), oil on canvas, 44-7/8 x 57-7/8″ courtesy the Kunstmuseum Bern, Hahnloser/Jaeggli Foundation, Villa Flora, Winterthur René Philipon lived at the Château de Vertcoeur in Île de France (see the gouache by William Heer). Several of Philipon’s works with the fine bookplate by De Andrada are in the Ritman Library, both manuscripts and printed works. It was founded in 1888 by Papus and ran until 1912). Philipon also collaborated on the monthly periodical “L’Initiation” under the pseudonym Jean Tabris (the Ritman Library owns the complete run of this periodical, which offered articles on masonry, theosophy and occult sciences. A collector himself, he published a work on “Stanislas de Guaita: sa bibliothèque occulte”. René Philipon was greatly interested in the occult sciences and salvaged the ‘Bibliothèque rosicrucienne’ series of Henri Chacornac, owner of publishing house Chacornac.
It shows a unicorn striding the waves the Greek motto ‘Philos pontou’, Lover of the Sea, is a pun on Philipon’s name. This elegant bookplate was made for the French count René Philipon (1870-1936) by J. "Environ 60 épreuves sur vélin d'Arches blanc signées F. Black half leather binding with corners and red silk cover.īinding : Yseux, successeur de Thierry-Simier.- LAMBERT.Ĭontaining a portrait Woodcut of Richard Wagner by Felix Vallotton one of the 60 copies on paper vélin d'Arches (signed lower right). Vollständiger Klavierauszug von Hans von Bülow.
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