ASSE Geneviève and BECKETT Samuel. ABANDONED. Paris, Georges Visat, [1971] : in-8 Italian style (174 x 257 mm) of [44] pp., suite sous chemise imprimée - En feuilles, titre gaufré sur le premier plat de la couverture rempliée, sous emboîse publisher's slipcase. Original edition with 12 drypoints by Geneviève Asse. Limited edition of 72 numbered copies on Arches vellum, signed by the author and the artist at the justification. ONE OF 10 HEAD COPS (no. 6), the only ones with a printed folder, A SUITE ON CHIN OF 10 SIGNED ENGRAVINGS. Samuel Beckett, who preferred the white works of Geneviève Asse to the blue canvases, once remarked in front of one of them: "This is work without a net. There could be no higher praise from a writer whose entire body of work meets this requirement. Beckett had met Geneviève Asse in her studio on boulevard Blanqui in the early '50s; economy of means, formal rigor, aesthetics of emptiness and trace - there was no shortage of shared preoccupations, and in 1970, when the Irish writer entrusted the engraver with the task of illustrating this brief unpublished text, she offered him twelve small plates engraved with drypoint and diamondpoint in return. A masterpiece by Geneviève Asse, Abandonné is, alongside Fizzles with Jasper Johns, one of Samuel Beckett's most accomplished collaborations with an illustrator. Printer: Atelier Leblanc, Paris. Bibliography: Mason 168 - 179.