Georges BRAQUE / Pierre REVERDY

Georges BRAQUE / Pierre REVERDY
Georges BRAQUE / Pierre REVERDY
Une Aventure méthodique, 1949, in-folio (47 x 33,5 cm), in sheets, comprising the filled and illustrated cover, the illustrated frontispiece, the text, the 26 lithographs in black in the text and the 12 reproductions of paintings out of text, unsigned and unnumbered copy, total edition at 250 copies, original illustrated grey cloth cover, very good condition but the leaves slightly yellowed, provenance : old collection Jacques et Liliane Mourlot (Vallier 49). In a second grey cloth emboitage is attached the complete model of Reverdy's text, corrected by the writer, signed and annotated at the end "Bon à tirer, / after corrections and the addition of the date / - indispensable because of the delay - / for 250 copies [...] 24 February 1949 / Bon à tirer après nouvelles corrections [...] 15 March 1949", to which is attached another (incomplete) model of the text with Braque's illustrations, various proofs of the colophon, the list of plates, etc.., trial proofs of the frontispiccce and reproductions of paintings and a drawing (black stone, blue watercolour and white gouache highlights) for the illustrated

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