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Oskar KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980). Die T rä umenden Knaben . Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1917. In-4 oblong (240 x 275 mm). 8 lithographies en couleurs par Kokoschka, et 3 en noir (une sur la dédicace à Klimt, une sur le titre et une contrecollée sur le cartonnage). Cartonnage de l’éditeur de toile écrue, broché à la chinoise, vignette en noire contrecollée sur le plat supérieur, étui assorti. UN DES 275 EXEMPLAIRES REMIS EN VENTE EN 1917, revêtus d’une nouvelle couverture, celui-ci le n° 161. Publié en 1908 à 500 exemplaires, Die Trä umenden Knaben rencontra peu de succès. L’éditeur Wolff en racheta 275 exemplaires, qu’il remit en vente près de 10 ans plus tard. “Kokoschka, like Barlach and Beckmann, often illustrated his own writings. In this, his first graphic work, the decorative influence of the Jugendstil and folk art is apparent. The Wiener Werkstätte had commissioned him to write and illustrate a book for children and Die Traeumenden Knaben was shown in the 1908 Kunstschau, where Kokoschka’s work was exhibited for the first time. Only a handful of copies was sold at the time and the book was reissued in 1917 by Kurt Wolff. This book and Slevogt’s Sindbad (Berlin 1922) are the first important modern livres de peintres from east of the Rhine” (Garvey 147). “The work is dedicated to Gustav Klimt who had left the Vienna Secession in 1905 and whose work was a powerful influence on Kokoschka at the time. The Kurt Wolff Verlag of Leipzig bought up the stock of Kokoschka’s work at a time when the artist’s reputation was secure, and put 275 copies on the market as a limited edition at the price of 50 marks. Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was among the most important publishers of avant-garde and Expressionist literature” ( From Manet to Hockney , p. 118). Castleman 107 ; Garvey 147.