Helena Bochořáková Dittrichová (1894-1980)

TWO BOOKS BY HELENA BOCHOŘÁKOVÁ DITTRICHOVÁ

1930
Enfance Gravures Sur Bois, book format 12°, 15,5x12 cm, unpaged, in French. Title page printed in black. Contains 96 full-page woodcut illustrations. "Bochorakova Dittrichova Enfance Gravures Sur Bois Dorbon - Ainé 19 Bould. Haussmann 19 Paris". Original cardboard binding. Issued by Paris Library Dorbon Ainé in 1930 in 310 copies. With artist`s dedication on the title page: " Milé paní Miriam Helena Bochořáková, V červenci 1951". Graphic novel by Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, considered the first lady of this literary genre. The National Museum of Women in the Arts in New York has designated her work as the first drawn (graphic) novel created by a woman. Minor loss in the upper part of the back cover, slightly worn upper and lower spine of the binding. Děti. Book format 8°, 24x16 cm, 28 drawings in a paper cover, title page printed in black and signed by the artist, printed at the author`s expense. Each drawing signed in print "BD". Loose sheet with format 4° (31x23,5 cm) "KRITIKY VÝSTAV A PRACÍ H. BOCHOŘÁKOVÉ-DITTRICHOVÉ". Provenance: from the collection of PhDr. Antonín Dufek.