Jean ARP.

To the infinite white. Lausanne and Paris, La Rose des vents, 1960. In-folio, in leaves, publisher's white half-calf vellum folder with gold mark on first cover. Original edition. Limited edition of 600 copies. One of the 100 copies on Richard de Bas wove paper, signed by the painter and accompanied by a suite of barred brass plates (#XXX), the only head print with one copy on pearly japan (the so-called "barred" plates are actually enhanced by a stencil overprint). 8 poems by Jean Arp illustrated by himself with 8 original etchings out of text : all the plates of the suite have been here exceptionally signed by the painter ; the frontispiece four times. "Toward the end of his life Arp published two artist's books, Vers le blanc infini and Le Soleil recerclé; the great care that was taken in the publication of the two books, including in their typography and engraving, seems to invalidate Arp's claim that his creations were highly spontaneous and that he disregarded esthetics" (Renee Riese Hubert). The case is missing. (Hubert, Surrealism and the Book, p. 85: Arntz, Hans Arp Graphische Werk, 1912-1966, no. 405-412: Garvey & Wick, The Arts of the French Book, 1900-1965, Dallas, 1967, no. 56: "Vers le Blanc Infini is an example of the full integration of design and content possible in a book written and illustrated by the same artist." - Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000, nº 138: "The sixteen etchings that Arp created to illustrate his own poetry retain the playfulness of his early Dada work but also an undercurrent of mystery that is characteristic of his surrealist imagery").