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of the slightly sunned spine panel, a few nicks to edges, else bright and fresh, not price-clipped; a remarkably attractive copy. ¶ Slocum & Cahoon A47; Connolly, The Modern Movement , 87. £4,000 [157194] 83 KANDINSKY, Wassily. Klänge. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1913] his “musical album” First edition, number 13 of 300 copies signed in pen by Kandinsky (there were also 45 hors commerce). Klänge (“Sounds”) consists of 38 prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and 56 woodcuts he began in 1907. Kandinsky described Klänge as a “musical album”. The woodcuts are not merely illustrative nor are the poems purely verbal descriptions; the meaning is created through the interaction of space between text and image, sound and meaning, mark and blank space. This is one of three major publications by Kandinsky alongside Über die Geistige in der Kunst and the Blaue Reiter almanac. Quarto. Original red boards with brown cloth spine, illustration and spine lettered in gilt. Text and illustrations printed on Van Gelder Zonen cream laid paper. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated with 56 woodcuts of which 12 are in colours. Owner’s name to front free endpaper, spine faded and
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