FRAIKIN - Lot 187

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FRAIKIN - Lot 187
FRAIKIN ALEXANDER - "Fraikin Museum" [title on the front cover]. Album in-8 oblong; 7 albumen prints (12,5 x 7 cm) pasted in full on grey-blue cardboard f., framed with intertwined fillets in red ink and captioned in pen and brown ink, dry stamp "Alexandre / photo" at bottom left of the support ff. Red chagrin, boards decorated with a frame of gilt fillets and spandrels, gilt title on the upper board, smooth spine, combed paper lining framed with gilt lace, gilt edges (E. Schmittz, Bruxelles). Small stain on the lower cover, in a black percaline case. Nice copy. Nice set of hand-numbered views of the museum gallery with the caption "Fraikin Museum in Herenthals" and the numbers of the sculptures referring to the following catalog. Originally from Herenthals, the sculptor Charles-Auguste Fraikin (1817-1893) was curator of the sculpture department of the Brussels Museum of Fine Arts. He created, among other things, the monument of the Counts of Egmont and Hornes which adorns the fountain of the Petit-Sablon. BONDED WITH: - Fraikin Museum of Herenthals offered by the artist to his native city in 1891. Catalog of the gallery. Herenthals, L. Bongaerts-Verbeeck, [1891]. In-8°; portr.-front, 31 pp. cons. cover, all mounted on tabs to fit the album. Enriched (flying ff.) with 6 documents on the artist: 1. Portrait of the artist. Wood engraving, 11 x 8 cm (from a publication?), mounted by the corners on bristol board f. captioned by hand in pencil; 2. photographic portrait [Mme Fraikin, née Sophie Devis], full-length (Brussels, Klary), silver print (14 x 10 cm) on cardboard f. monogrammed "PK", dated on the back by hand "Monday, March 5, 1906"; 3. wedding announcement of the artist and Sophie Devis, in-4°, on blue laid paper; 4. Announcement of the artist's death, Schaerbeek, Nov. 22, 1893, in-4° (2 copies); 5. Postcard with an illustration of a work of the artist (Brussels, Ern. Thill, [ca 1920], uncirculated; 6. Announcement leaflet probably for an exhibition at the Fraikin Museum, [ca 1980?], bifeuillet in-8°, [1] p., mimeographed on yellow paper.
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