coloured lithograph on Japon nacré
inch. 7.8×21.06 / cm 20×54
1958
NOTES:
Signed lower right
Numbered 21/25 epreuve d’artiste
The lithograph is the cover of the work by René Char Cinq poésies en hommage à Georges Braque (52 pages, size cm 26×17).
EDITION: 75 copies on paper Japon nacré cm 55×70,5, signed and numbered; 25 copies on paper Japon nacré cm 55×70,5, signed and numbered I to XXV; some artist’s proofs on paper Japon nacré not signed and not numbered; 15 artist’s proofs on paper Japon bleu cm 50,6×77,3, signed and numbered I to XV (3 of them have been destroyed; there are also some artist’s proofs signed and marked “épreuve d’exposition”). Number 21/25 epreuve d’artiste
PUBLISHER:
Edwin Engelberts, Geneva.
PRINTER: M
ourlot, Paris.
LITERATURE: F. Mourlot, Souvenirs et portraits d’artistes, Ed. Mazo, Paris e Amiel, New York, 1972, n. 60; Braque. Donation Laurens I, prefazione di P. Bazin, Château-musée de Dieppe, Dieppe, 1973, n. 37; D. Vallier, Braque. L’oeuvre gravé, 1982, Flammarion, n. 131, pp. 186-187.