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Paris, Pierre Lecuire, 1954. In 4°. 330 x 250 mm. SINGLE COPY of this first edition containing 17 ballet-poems, illustrated with 20 original full-page black engravings, including 3 double-page ones. In this case it is the first copy of the "sur Japon Imperial" header containing a suite of etchings on vergé ancien applied on the various sheets. It is most likely the first copy, a trial copy, as can also be seen from the fact that two etchings bear the inscription "mauvaux planche", the 5bis Gouttes and the 6, Chateau d'Amphitrite .
These plates constitute almost all of the painter's engraved works, of which he composed only 23 in total.
Specialist Notes
An avant-garde book in which Nicolas de Staël reveals himself as a precursor of minimalism.
Bibliography: Woimant (F.) - Staël (F. de), Nicolas de Staël. L'Œuvre gravé, Bibliothèque nationale , 1979, pp. 22 et 62-81 – Chapon (F.), Le Peintre et le livre , Flammarion, 1987, pp. 245 and 299 – Peyré (Y.), Peinture et poésie , Gallimard, 2001, pp. 154-155 et 242, n° 66 – […], Artists' Books in the Modern Era , 1870-2000, Londres, Thames & Hudson, p. 215, n° 135 – […], Livres de Pierre Lecuire, Éditions des livres de Pierre Lecuire, sd, n° 2 – […], The Books of Pierre Lecuire, Grolier Club, 1994, n° 2 (“One of the masterpieces of the French illustrated book in the twentieth century”).
Bibliography: Woimant (F.) - Staël (F. de), Nicolas de Staël. L'Œuvre gravé, Bibliothèque nationale , 1979, pp. 22 et 62-81 – Chapon (F.), Le Peintre et le livre , Flammarion, 1987, pp. 245 and 299 – Peyré (Y.), Peinture et poésie , Gallimard, 2001, pp. 154-155 et 242, n° 66 – […], Artists' Books in the Modern Era , 1870-2000, Londres, Thames & Hudson, p. 215, n° 135 – […], Livres de Pierre Lecuire, Éditions des livres de Pierre Lecuire, sd, n° 2 – […], The Books of Pierre Lecuire, Grolier Club, 1994, n° 2 (“One of the masterpieces of the French illustrated book in the twentieth century”).
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