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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Oct 26 @ 05:00UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
VIRGILE.- Les Bucoliques. Traduction en vers de Paul Valéry. Lithographies originales en couleurs de Jacques Villon. Paris, Scripta & Picta, 1953. In-f° (qqs rousseurs éparses). En ff., sous couv., sous chemise et étui d'édition.
44 lithos en couleurs : frontispice, vignette de titre, 2 in texto dans l'introduction et 20 illustrations in texto disposées sur des pages se faisant face, i.e. 40 ill., et un culispice en noir soit 320 pierres utilisées par Jacques Villon "qui a gravé de sa propre main chaque couleur sur une pierre différente" (cfr colophon). Le peintre Jacques Villon (1875-1963), pseudonyme de Gaston Duchamp, est le frère aîné de Marcel Duchamp. Rouir a consacré une étude à ses estampes dans Le Livre et l'estampe, 1968, n° 55-56, p. 213 et sq. et qualifie la période 1945-1963 dans la production de l'artiste d'"évasion vers la couleur".
Edition originale de la traduction en juxtalinéaire, tirée à 269 ex. + qqs-uns réservés aux collaborateurs, un des 245 sur vélin d'arches numérotés en chiffres arabes (2e pap., n° 48) Ouvrage édité par la Société de bibliophiles et iconophiles "Scripta et Picta" dont Roudinesco était président et Blaizot, Cretté, Sickles membres-fondateurs.
Provenance : Dr Amand Fonder (ex-libris).
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