Pierre LECUIRE Artist's book including 22 poems by Pierre Lecuire and 22 origina…

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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. Lots will be handled by our carrier who will ship your lot for a flat rate of 20 € TTC France / 30 € Europe /40 € outside Europe (excluding insurance). Framed lots will be sent unframed. For paintings and lots that remain framed, an estimate will be sent to you. The grouping of the lots will be the responsibility of our provider.

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[1960s] Marcel Broodthaers, Moules Oeufs Frites Pots Charbon Antwerp, Wide White Space, 1966.First edition. Stapled wrappers, 20 x 14 cm, 8 pp. Scarce catalogue/ artists' book for Broodthaers’ first solo exhibition in Wide White Space, 26 May – 26 June, 1966. Designed by Marcel Broodthaers, it features three illustrated poem works (Ma Rhétorique, Poème and Théorèmes), as well as notes by Jean Dypreau and Pierre Restany.Very good copy.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR

PAN (Imre). Tribute to Imre Pan. Paris: Mireille Pan, 1978. - In-4, 280 x 227: (4 ff. first 3 blank), 48 pp. (8 ff. 3rd and last 3 blank), 19 plates, printed cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Posthumous first edition of Commentary on the Century by writer and publisher Imre Pan (1904-1972), which was "delivered as a lecture at the University of Aix-Marseille in July 1971 and represents this thinker's final expression on the reality of art and contemporary problems of civilization" (preface). This edition was published as a tribute to the author, and illustrated with 20 compositions made especially for the book, including a frontispiece and 19 hors texte, by 20 different artists: Geneviève ASSE (etching), Juhana BLOMSTEDT (etching), Colette BRUNSCHWIG (etching), Camille BRYEN (etching), CARLIER (etching), Serge CHARCHOUNE (woodcut), Duarte GONÇALO (etching), CORNEILLE (lithography), Yves DELOULE (etching), Jacques DOUCET (etching), Georges FOISSY (etching), Marc GIAI-MINIET (etching), François JOUSSELIN (etching), Lourdes CASTRO (phototypesetting), André MARFAING (etching), Aurélie NEMOURS (woodcut), Armand PETITJEAN (etching), Pierre SKIRA (etching), Victor VASARELY (silkscreen) and Hugh WEISS (etching). Limited edition of 340 copies. One of the first 130 on Arches vellum, including the 20 original etchings signed by the artists, this being one of the 30 artists' copies, numbered I. The engravings are not numbered, with the exception of the lithograph by Corneille. The Charchoune woodcut is signed "S. C." by a hand other than that of the artist, who died in 1975. EXEMPLAIRE OF THE POET AND PUBLISHER PIERRE LECUIRE (1922-2013), enriched with two autograph letters signed and addressed to him, one from Mireille Pan, the author's widow, the other from his daughter Sophie Pan. Mireille's letter is dated December 21, 1978, and accompanied the copy: "à Pierre Lecuire sans lequel ce livre ne serait pas". The second is dated April 9, 1979, and refers to the exhibition in tribute to Imre Pan that took place at the Editions de l'Hermitage gallery from March 2, 1979: "I read the text you (sic) wrote for my guest book and I am very touched [...] It will be for me a very beautiful memory of this exhibition, of my father and his friends who helped the book to appear. I'm delighted that we were able to pay such a beautiful tribute to my father." Pierre Lecuire also enclosed two copies of the invitation to the exhibition opening. A very well preserved copy. Provenance : Pierre Lecuire.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

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Serge CHARCHOUNE (1888-1975) Wood engraving from the book "Panorama général" by Pierre Lecuire, 1963, illustrated by Serge Charchoune. Countersigned lower right. 16 x 32.5 cm

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