Jacques Villon ou L'Art Glorieux
Paris: Louis Carre. Softcover. Yellow wraps, glassine dust jacket, 62 pp., 7 color lithographs, 3 BW drawings; held in tan paperboard portfolio and housed in tan paperboard slipcase. G (Slipcase and portfolio show some age and some wear, with slipcase torn along top edges; book pages are generally good with only slight tanning along edges; plates and text pages are clear, though the ones adjacent to plates mirror some tanning, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on tp.). Item #151846
Text is in French. Subtitle on cover: Il construit un tableau, un epi, une rose, un visage, un sein nu. A tribute to the work of French cubist painter Jacques Villon, born Gaston Duchamp (1875-1963). Begins with a poem by Paul Eluard, and then relevant quotes from Leonard de Vinci, Charles Baudelaire, Eugene Fromentin, Paul Cezanne, Felix Bracquemond, Jules Michelet, Theophile Silvestre, Honore de Balzac, and Guillaume Apollinaire. The second part is an "Eloge de Jacques Villon" by Rene-Jean. The illustrations are interspersed throughout. #108 of 1800 copies. This copy is SIGNED BY Paul Eluard on the title page.
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