Illustrated book, Pantagruel, written by François Rabelais, and extra suite of prints

Inscription: Signed (text block, page 193, in black ink): • Derain

[Irving Zucker Art Books, New York, until 2003; sold to MMA]

Albert Skira, ed. Anthologie du livre illustrée par les peintres et sculpteurs de l'école de Paris. Geneva, 1946, pp. 26–27, no. 91, pls. 26, 27 (unknown edition), dates it 1946.

Monroe Wheeler. Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators. New York, 1947, p. 101, dates it 1945.

L[éopold]. Carteret. Le Trésor du bibliophile: Livres illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945. Vol. 4, Tables du Bilan artistique des soixante-dix dernières années. Paris, 1948, p. 329, dates it 1945.

Julien Cain. "French Art of the Book." Craft Horizons 9 (Autumn 1949), ill. p. 11 (unknown edition).

Julien Cain. French Art of the Book. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1949, unpaginated, no. 49 (unknown edition).

Charles Poore. "In the Spirit of Rabelais." New York Times (August 2, 1953), p. BR7, ill. (unknown edition).

Jean Adhémar. Derain. Exh. cat., Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris, 1955, p. 13, no. 115 (not this edition; collection Mme Derain).

Eleanor M. Garvey. The Artist and the Book, 1860–1960 in Western Europe and the United States. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 1961, p. 61, no. 81, ill. p. 62 (unknown edition; collection Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Edinburg).

Eleanor M. Garvey and Peter A. Wick. The Arts of the French Book. 1900–1965: Illustrated Books of the School of Paris. Exh. cat., Dallas Public Library. Dallas, 1967, pp. 53–54, no. 27, ill. p. 61 (color) (unknown edition).

W. J. Strachan. The Artist and the Book in France: The 20th Century Livre d'artiste. New York, 1969, pp. 84, 90, 92, 146, 264, 282, 292, 330, colorpl. 20 (collection W. J. Strachan).

John Russell. "Illustrated Books Are Making a Comeback." New York Times (August 28, 1983), p. H24.

Carol Hogben and Rowan Watson, ed. From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists' Illustrated Books. London, 1985, pp. 268–69, no. 111, ill. (not this edition; collection Victoria & Albert Museum, London).

David Sawyer. Prints by André Derain. [1988], pp. 5, 74–75, ill. (unknown edition), notes that printing of this book began in 1943 but was not completed until 1946.

Jane Lee. "The Prints of André Derain." Print Quarterly 7 (March 1990), p. 55.

Miriam Simon in André Derain: Le peintre du "trouble moderne". Exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Paris, 1994, pp. 384, 495, no. 385 (not this edition; collection Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris).

Riva Castleman. A Century of Artists Books. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1994, pp. 31, 62 (not this edition).

John Russell. "Image to Cherish in the Realm of the Word." New York Times (November 11, 1994), p. C28 (not this edition).

Grace Glueck. "Ode to Well-Made Books and the Art of Printing." New York Times (September 24, 1999), p. E37.

Martin Hutner in Martin Hutner and Jerry Kelly. A Century for the Century: Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999. Exh. cat., Grolier Club. New York, 1999, p. xv, colorpl. 45 (unknown edition).