RICCIOTTO CANUDO Personal album illustrated with... Lot 14

RICCIOTTO CANUDO Personal album illustrated with 21 original drawings including 4 watercolours, poems in Russian, photographs between 1897 and 1901, dried flowers belonging to Ricciotto Canudo (1877-1923). In-8 square leather stamped. Precious guestbook. Canudo then illustrated it before and after his arrival in Paris in 1901 with thoughts, opposite already existing drawings. Ricciotto Canudo was the first great critic and theorist of the Cinema which he baptized for the posterity 7th Art. His friends were Apollinaire, Léger, Chagall, Picasso, Cocteau, Delaunay, Dufy, Bakst...