108 - MARIE-MAD (Marie-Madeleine BOURDIN, known as). Set of 4 plates, 1 drawing, 4 proofs, etc. Set includes:

MARIE-MAD (Marie-Madeleine BOURDIN, known as). Set of 4 plates, 1 drawing, 4 proofs, etc. Set includes: - One original plate (28.5 x 17.7 cm) in India ink, signed M. Mad. - 2 original plates (29.8 x 24.1 cm) consisting of 2 original drawings in India ink, unsigned, depicting Titounette and Top on one plate and Titounet and Pluchon on the other, mounted on the same porthole-style background. A tracing for coloring one of the plates. Annotations and marginal tears on the tracing. - One original “pre-color” plate (30 x 22 cm) in gouache, unsigned. - An original drawing (20.4 x 17.7 cm) in India ink, unsigned, depicting Titounet and Titounette. Annotations and a stamp dated May 23, 1967, on the reverse. - 3 copies of the same black-and-white proof signed “M-Mad” (23.7 x 17.8 cm) depicting Titounet, Titounette, and their friends. - 1 two-color print (21.8 x 20.9 cm) signed Marie-Mad and titled *The Boarder Lost on a Stormy Night*. - Press clippings of characters from the Titounet and Titounette stories, cut out and pasted onto blue cardstock (1 sheet measuring 50 x 32.6 cm, folded in half), with the characters’ names handwritten. - 2 unsigned black-and-blue tracings and 97 discarded color tracings, some dated 1957. Tears, creases, adhesive tape, and staples on the tracings. Provenance: the artist’s studio.