Winter Discovery Auction Nov 14
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/14/2013
French poet Paul Eluard’s first posthumously published three volume anthology on the writings of art inscribed by artists Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger
Book Signed “a M. Belot / F Leger” and “Picasso” in red and blue crayon on the half-title of Volume 2 “Lumière et Morale” of the three volume set “Paul Eluard / Anthologie des Écrits sur L’Art” (Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art, 1953). 173 pages, 8.5” x 10.25”. Two small tape stains with show-through on front and back free-endpapers not affecting the page signed by Picasso and Léger. Orange boards lettered in black with upper case in green and white. First Edition (NAP). Fine condition.
Inscribed by Léger "to Mr. Belot,” most proabably French artist Gabriel Belot (1882-1962).
Surrealist French poet Paul Éluard (1895-1952) and Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) were close friends. Picasso and French cubist artist Fernand Léger rank among the foremost Cubist painters of the1910s. Léger (1881-1955) and Éluard first met right after World War II. Their friendship soon found artistic expression: in 1947 Léger painted Éluard's portrait. Éluard wrote the poems “Les constructeurs” and “A Fernand Léger” for Léger.
Issued in 1952 and 1954, Volume 1 “Les Freres Voyants” (minor flaws on pastedowns and both free-endpapers) and Volume 3 “La Passion de Peindre” (minor flaws on both free-endpapers) are present.
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