Andrée Caraire / Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes - Telle la...

First edition, limited and signed issue. This is number 127 from a total edition of 135 examples. One of the 120 on grand vélin d'Arches. Signed by Andrée Caraire, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Max Papart and André Villers. Signed - all four collaborators. Publisher's clamshell slipcase covered in cloth, with black title on the spine. A touch of bumping and handling, but clean and tidy. Preface and poem by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. Poetic work by Andrée Caraire with 10 photographs by André VILLERS reproduced in colour collotypes (phototypies), full page and 2 original "linogravures" (one in black and one in colour) by Max PAPART. Signed by the two poets and the two artists. An homage to Alberto Magnelli. 58 pages loose in sheets within a title folder of the same paper. Overall inside it is in excellent condition, with just a touch of foxing to the pages. 58 pages. 46cm x 35.5cm. Conforms to WorldCat / OCLC: 27721718 which lists only one library holding. Andrée Caraire was a French poet and writer associated with mid-twentieth-century literary circles. Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1890–1974) was a writer, dramatist and poet, linked to Dada and Surrealism. He wrote the preface and a poem for this volume. Max Papart (1911–1994) was a French painter and printmaker known for his colourful, often carnival-like imagery and his skill in linocut and other print techniques. His two original linogravures, one in colour, are an important part of the book’s artistic value. André Villers (1920–2003) was a celebrated French photographer, especially known for his portraits of artists and his reportage work. The ten phototypic plates in this book reproduce his photographs, which complement Papart’s linogravures. The book is a tribute to Alberto Magnelli (1888–1971), the Italian painter who was one of the pioneers of abstract art The title, Telle la feuille et l’arbre (“As the leaf, so the tree”), suggests continuity between master and followers, part and whole. It’s signed by all four contributors, and the most notable is Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884–1974), one of the original Dada writers in Paris alongside Tzara, Picabia and Breton, Andrée Caraire is the pen name of Andrée Garbit, the wife of the artist Max Papart Max Papart (1911–1994) was a painter, engraver and collagist whose work is close in spirit to Magnelli’s: clear, structured, abstract forms. His two original linocuts, one in black and one in colour, are original prints, not reproductions.

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