Exhibition of the Works of Édouard Manet. Preface by Émile Zola. Paris, Imprimerie de A. Quantin, January 1884, in-12, bound in blond half calf, black chagrin title page, spine with 5 raised bands with triple gilt fillets, (period binding), 72 pp.
First edition. Catalog of the first retrospective devoted to Manet in the aftermath of his death, organized at the École nationale des Beaux-Arts. It includes 179 numbers succinctly described, it is preceded by a preface by Émile Zola (23 p.) and ends with a " Speech pronounced by M. Antonin Proust on Manet's grave ".
Copy of Paul Éluard with his bookplate drawn by Max Ernst on the front cover : " Après moi le sommeil ".
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