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Unique commemorative album to be presented to the London based “Arts Club” on Dover Street, Mayfair, by 30 Belgian World War I refugee artists

Unique commemorative album to be presented to the London based “Arts Club” on Dover Street, Mayfair, by 30 Belgian World War I refugee artists containing 32 original artworks from the period (1915)-1925, in a commissioned deluxe binding, entitled “To the “Arts Club” A token of gratitude from Belgian artists for the kind hospitality bestowed upon them during the great war.” 32 different original artworks in various techniques (drawings, etchings, watercolours, gouaches, lithographs), by i.a. Emile Claus, Marcel Jefferys, Alfred Jonniaux, Leon de Smet, Pierre Paulus, Louis Reckelbus, Valerius de Saedeleer, Belgium, ca.(1915)-1925), calligraphed presentation leaf by Hélène Stordeur listing the contributing artists and illustrated with two coats of arms (on the left an undetermined British coat of arms divided in four; on the right the Lion of Flanders) within a finely decorated ornamental border in two shades of yellow, all housed in a massive deluxe heavy leather album of black hardgrained morocco with a gilt fillet line along cover-edges, front panel with two burgundy red onlaid borders flanked by gilt fillet lines and with two connecting burgundy red blindtooled floral ornaments between these borders, the inner panel with giltlettered presentation text, spine with raised bands with gilt and blindtooled compartments, boardedges gilt, gilt inside dentelles, handmade marbled blue doublures and endpapers, handbound by J. Labruyère rel., 50,7 (h.) x 68,6 (w.) x 5,8 (d.) cm. (weight: 12 kgs.).

£19500.00

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