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295 - [ILLUSTRATED] LANSKOY & Pierre LECUIRE - Cortège. Paris, 1959 - First edition of this extraordinary illustrated publication, featuring 24 works by Lanskoy, including one on the cover and 23 color plates. Presented as loose sheets in a folder and slipcase, in excellent overall condition. Total print run of 170 copies on Arches paper, including 20 not for sale, all signed on the proof sheet by the artist and the author; this copy is numbered 25 and is therefore among the 25 first-edition copies featuring a set of plates on Arches vellum, a remarkable rarity.The plates and the cover were executed using stencils by Maurice Beaufumé based on Lanskoy’s collages. This Franco-Russian painter and lithographer is considered one of the leading figures of the New School of Paris. The poet Pierre Lecuire championed the book as a work of art of the highest order, which explains why he commissioned outstanding artists to illustrate his poems. Folio (445 x 320 mm)
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[ILLUSTRATED] LANSKOY & Pierre LECUIRE - Cortège. Paris, 1959 - First edition of this extraordinary illustrated publication, featuring 24 works by Lanskoy, including one on the cover and 23 color plates. Presented as loose sheets in a folder and slipcase, in excellent overall condition. Total print run of 170 copies on Arches paper, including 20 not for sale, all signed on the proof sheet by the artist and the author; this copy is numbered 25 and is therefore among the 25 first-edition copies featuring a set of plates on Arches vellum, a remarkable rarity.The plates and the cover were executed using stencils by Maurice Beaufumé based on Lanskoy’s collages. This Franco-Russian painter and lithographer is considered one of the leading figures of the New School of Paris. The poet Pierre Lecuire championed the book as a work of art of the highest order, which explains why he commissioned outstanding artists to illustrate his poems. Folio (445 x 320 mm)
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