[Henri CREUZEVAULT (1905-1971)]. Livre d'or, 1928-1956; volu - Lot 326

[Henri CREUZEVAULT (1905-1971)]. Livre d'or, 1928-1956; volume in-4 (30.5x23cm) of 150 ff. of laid paper, bound in brick-red morocco on beveled wooden boards, thick 2-nerved spine, gilt edges, slipcase. Important visitors' book by the bookbinder and later gallery owner, with over a thousand signatures and a few poems, thoughts and drawings. The first 24 leaves are devoted to the bookbinder, from 1928 to 1954, with thoughts and texts by Pierre Bergé, Abel Bonnard, Maurice Donnay (tribute page to Creuzevault), Henri Garat, Fernand Gravey, André Lang, André Maurois, Yves Mirande, Anna de Noailles, Maurice Rat (quatrain), Henri de Régnier (sonnet Le Relieur), Jane Renouardt, Suzy Solidor, Jules Truffier, drawings by Paul-Adrien Bouroux (vue d'Assise, plume), Jean Bruller (écrivain, plume et aquarelle), Edgar Chahine (jeune fille à la sanguine), Louis Charlot (vagabond, plume), Louis Jou (Piéta, sepia wash), Albert Montmerot (landscape in pen), Luc-Albert Moreau (angel in front of bindings, charcoal), Sylvain Sauvage (XVIIIth-century figures, pen and watercolor), and signers including Marlène Dietrich... The album, turned upside down, served as a guest book for Galerie Creuzevault, from 1949 to 1956 (exhibitions by Buffet, Couturier, Laurens, Marcoussis, Permeke, Rouault, etc.), with numerous signatures by artists, collectors, critics and personalities: Adam, Aizpiri, Fr. Adler, P. Albert-Birot, Avati, Baderou, Beaurepaire, Berggruen, G. Besson, Bezombes, Bierge, Bonfils, Boullaire, Braque, Broder, Buffet, Busse, J. Cain, Carzou, J. Cassou, Cavaillès, César, Charensol, Charlot, Ciry, Clerté, Cocteau, Commère, Cortot, de Coster, Coutaud, Couturier, M. Dard, D. Darrieux, Desnoyer, Despierre, Deyrolle, Dufet, Fougeron, W. George, A. et D. Giacometti, Gilioli, Giono, Granville, Gromaire, Halicka, Hugnet, Jacno, Jacquemin, Od. Joyeux, Kerg, Kischka, Lacourière, J. de Lacretelle, Lagrange, Lanskoy, Lartigue, Legueult, Lobo, Lorjou, Dora Maar, Madoura, Magnelli, Jean Marais, Marchand, Marty, E. Masurel, Mauriac, Monny de Boully, Morvan, Mourlot, Oguiss, Oudot, Permeke, Piaubert, Planson, Pougny, Richier, Cl. Roger-Marx, Rohner, Sandoz, Savin, Seuphor, Sorlier, Survage, G. Tailleferre, Tamburi, Tchelitchev, Terechkovitch, Trémois, Tutundjian, Venard, D. Vierny, Villemot, Yencesse, Zadkine, etc. We enclose another guestbook from the Galerie Creuzevault (large in-8) in an antique binding, red morocco "à la fanfare" with small irons, green morocco inner boards richly decorated with the arms of Cardinal Mazarin, gilt edges, in slipcase; only 8 ff. are filled, with a tribute to Creuzevault by Dor de la Souchère, and signatures: B. Anthonioz and G. de Gaulle Anthonioz, A. Chamson, P. Courthion, B. Dorival, Clavé, Kijno, etc.