Le Feu
Paris: Callman-Levy (c. 1910).
Item #7716
The French edition of d'Annunzio's work, with a long and sincere dedication to his onetime lover, Romaine Brooks.
Around 1909, Brooks and d’Annunzio met at a dinner given by an artist friend who was famous for his colorful posters and paintings.
D’Annunzio commented that much more can be expressed without any color at all, and this prompted Brooks to invite him
to see her work. Thus began a complicated friendship that lasted for nearly three decades and had a profound impact on Brooks’s
art. She saw him as a martyred artist, another lapidé; he wrote poems based on her works and called her "the most profound and
wise orchestrator of grays in modern painting". They spent the summer of 1910 in a villa on the coast of France, in a romantic
interlude that was disrupted when D'Annunzio's jealous ex-mistress arrived in town. Their friendship remained strong throughout
D'Annunzio's life and she painted his portrait in 1912.
Very good in original wrappers, rebound in a full morocco signed binding, gilt top edge, gilt titling, very light scuff s, laid
into a marbled paper slipcase.
Price: $4,500.00