[COLLECTIVE]. - Lot 96

[COLLECTIVE]. Georges Duthuit. Paris : Flammarion, [1976]. -In-folio, 380 x 280: 97 pp. (4 ff. last 2 blank), 7 plates, printed cover. Leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Collective work published in homage to the writer, historian and art critic Georges Duthuit (1891-1973), Henri Matisse's son-in-law. It comprises 7 texts by René Char, Patrick Waldberg, Camille Schuwer, Yves Bonnefoy, Samuel Beckett, Pierre Schneider and Henri Maldiney. The set is accompanied by 7 original color etchings by André MASSON (etching), Norman BLUHM (zincography), Miklos BOKOR (lithography), Bram VAN VELDE (lithography), Jean-Paul RIOPELLE (zincography), Joan MIRÓ (etching) and Pierre TAL-COAT (lithography). Prints by Miró, Bokor, Van Velde and Tal-Coat are numbered and signed by the artists. Those by Masson, Bluhm and Riopelle are signed in the plate. The text was printed by Pierre Jean Mathan. Limited edition of 175 copies on Arches vellum, this one numbered 100. A perfectly preserved copy.