La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France
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La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France is a collaborative artists' book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. The book features a poem by Cendrars about a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, interlaced with an almost-abstract pochoir print by Delaunay-Terk. The work, published in 1913, is considered a milestone in the evolution of artist's books as well as modernist poetry and abstract art.
Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, 1913, La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, illustrated book with watercolor applied through pochoir and relief print on paper, 200 x 35.6 cm, Princeton University Art Museum
Cover of La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France 1913
The last section of La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France featuring the Eiffel Tower, 1913
Simultaneous Windows on the City, 1912, by Robert Delaunay, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Blaise Cendrars
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Frédéric-Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
Cendrars posing in the uniform of the Légion étrangère in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm
Portrait bust of Blaise Cendrars by August Suter (Paris 1911)
Blaise Cendrars, circa 1907.