Description
Eluard (Paul) Le Bestiaire, number 147 of 148 copies on vélin de Lana, from an edition limited to 196, 86 etched plates, illustrations and initials in colour by Roger Chastel, loose as issued in original etched wrappers in black and white on papier d'Auvergne, uncut, Margaret Winkelman's copy with her book-label, original board folder, spine with title in inset panel, slip-case a little rubbed, folio, Paris, Maeght, 1948.
⁂ "...the matching of colours for both sides of the 42 double pages, and the 10,000 separate inkings made the task a Herculean one, not only of illustration, but of book architecture. The result is a masterpiece." Strachan, The Artist and the Book in France, p.110.
Lot 66
Eluard (Paul) Le Bestiaire, one of 148 copies, etchings by Roger Chastel, original etched wrappers, Paris, 1948.
Hammer Price: £480
Description
Eluard (Paul) Le Bestiaire, number 147 of 148 copies on vélin de Lana, from an edition limited to 196, 86 etched plates, illustrations and initials in colour by Roger Chastel, loose as issued in original etched wrappers in black and white on papier d'Auvergne, uncut, Margaret Winkelman's copy with her book-label, original board folder, spine with title in inset panel, slip-case a little rubbed, folio, Paris, Maeght, 1948.
⁂ "...the matching of colours for both sides of the 42 double pages, and the 10,000 separate inkings made the task a Herculean one, not only of illustration, but of book architecture. The result is a masterpiece." Strachan, The Artist and the Book in France, p.110.
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