SATIE (Erik ). The Medusa Trap. Paris, Éditions... Lot 23

SATIE (Erik ). The Medusa Trap. Paris, Éditions de la Galerie Simon, 1921. In-folio, (18) ff. of which the last blank, printing of the text with music opposite, paperback. ORIGINAL EDITION, PRINTED AT 112 numbered EXAMPLES, signed by the author and the artist, this one one one of the 90 on hollande. "Comédie lyrique" first performed at the Théâtre Michel on May 24, 1921, by singers from the Odéon. AUTOGRAPHIC SENDING SIGNED: "To my dear director & friend Rolf de Maré. Friendly... "Director of the Swedish Ballets at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Rolf de Maré commissioned Erik to write the score of Relâche, premiered in 1924. 3 WOODY COLORS OF GEORGE BRAQUE, in the text. In the title, the typographic mark of the publisher Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler is a woodcut by André Derain. Provenance: Bernard Loliée (ex-libris vignette).