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Five catalogues bound together in a (4to) duotone buckram binding, spine lettered in gilt. 

Includes:

•  First sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 June 1930, 9.25 x 6", no illustrations.
• Second sale, same location, 29 November 1930, 10.5 x 7", B&W illustrations.
• Third sale, same location, 20 May 1931, 10.5 x 7", B&W illustrations.
• Fourth sale, Rémi Ader, Paris, 2 February 1995, 10¾ x 8¼", B&W illustrations. 
• Fifth sale, same location, 26 September 1996, 10¾ x 8¼", B&W illustrations.

Tipped into catalogue 4 are lists of prices realized, a few other related leaves laid in. Texts in French.

Steinlen's longtime model, companion and mistress was Mlle Masseida. Of African birth, she was believed to be from Senegal or perhaps Sudan. Steinlen left much of his art to Masseida at the time of his death in 1923. He also left some of his artwork to his daughter Colette. Masseida followed Steinlen in death in 1929. Gradually works by Steinlen in her collection were sold off in succeeding years, beginning in 1930 and concluding in 1996.