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207 - Arthur RIMBAUD and ZAO Wou-Ki. *Illuminations*. Eight original full-page color etchings. Paris, Le Club français du livre, 1967.
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Arthur RIMBAUD and ZAO Wou-Ki. *Illuminations*. Eight original full-page color etchings. Paris, Le Club français du livre, 1967. Folio, loose-leaf, in the publisher’s sky-blue cloth box with Chinese-style clasps. A beautiful illustrated book featuring 8 original full-page color etchings by Zao Wou-Ki. Limited edition of 200 copies on Rives BFK paper, signed by the artist (no. 60). “Zao Wou-Ki undertook the illustration of Rimbaud’s *Illuminations* at the request of the Club français du livre. He created eight color etchings based on watercolors, which he exhibited in the spring of 1967 at the Galerie de France” (Marie Minssieux-Chamonard). Publisher’s slipcase is slightly warped. (Marie Minssieux-Chamonard, *Zao Wou-Ki: Prints and Illustrated Books*, BnF, 2008, p. 22.- Hendgen, *Zao Wou-Ki and the Poets*, 2015, p. 107: “William Shakespeare, Arthur Rimbaud, and Khalil Gibran are the only non-contemporary poets whom Zao Wou-Ki illustrates.”)
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