Henri DE REGNIER (1864-1936) A very fine copy containing thr - Lot 194

Henri DE REGNIER (1864-1936) A very fine copy containing three tales: les Petits Messieurs de Nèvres, le Portrait d'amour, le Petit visage. Drawings by Dimitri D. Bouchène, translation by E.P. Oukhtomskaya. Published by Aquilon, 1922. In-8° format, 60 pages. Unique nominative copy, printed for Renée Ivanovna Nothafft. Cover slightly damaged. The illustrations in this book were created by a painter and member of the Union du Monde de l'Art, eminent stage director Dimitri Dimitrievitch Bouchène (1893-1993). In 1922, Bouchène, who had worked as a curator at the Hermitage, wanted to try his hand at illustration, notably for a number of books published by Aquilon. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, Hermitage researcher and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.