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12 - MARIE-MAD (Marie-Madeleine BOURDIN, known as). Light in the Tower: Original plates from the album. [1950]. 20 original plates in India ink (32.3 x 25 cm for most, except for a few plates with narrower margins) and 2 original title bands in India ink on 1 plate (31.5 x 11.5 cm).
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MARIE-MAD (Marie-Madeleine BOURDIN, known as). Light in the Tower: Original plates from the album. [1950]. 20 original plates in India ink (32.3 x 25 cm for most, except for a few plates with narrower margins) and 2 original title bands in India ink on 1 plate (31.5 x 11.5 cm). Approval stamps on the reverse dated March through July 1950; a few handwritten marginal annotations (titles, page numbers, and technical information). Included are: 1 draft cover for the album in India ink (1 folio, 38 x 27 cm, folded in half, with marginal tears) and 18 plates (out of 20) from the same story published in color in the magazine *Âmes Vaillantes* (newspaper clippings). Complete set of original plates from this comic strip by Marie-Mad (who was still signing as M. M. Bourdin), the first to be published as an album by Fleurus in 1950. Provenance: the artist’s studio.
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