Pierre LECUIRE
Artist's book including 22 poems by Pierre Lecuire and 22 original engravings by 15 artists: Fermin Aguayo, Geneviève Asse, César, Serge Charchoune, Étienne-Martin, Claude Garache, Charles Marq,
Jean Messagier, Henry Moore, Vera Pagava, Brigitte Simon, Arpad Szenès, Pierre Tal Coat, Raoul Ubac, Maria Helena Viera da Silva.
First edition (1974) printed at 130 copies on paper, signed by the author and the artists on the colophon. Edited by Pierre Lecuire, 1974, Paris.
In-folio, in sheets, publisher's slipcase.
Dimensions of the slipcase : 49,5 x 35,5 x 5 cm
Dimensions of the pages : 46,5 x 32,5 cm
The Book of Books is an invitation to fifteen artists to produce a variation on the engraving, The Three Books, by Hercules Seghers (c. 1590 - c.1638), a Dutch engraver and painter of the
painter of the Golden Age.
References: Books by Pierre Lecuire, Descriptive Bibliography, 1980: no. 20. - Cat. Books by Pierre Lecuire, BnF, 2001, no. 22.
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