La Complainte sauvage. poème d'Emmanuel Looten orné de signes de Georges Mathieu
by LOOTEN, Emmanuel; GEORGES MATHIEU
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1950. MATHIEU, Georges. La Complainte Sauvage: Poème d'Emmanuel Looten, orné de signes de Georges Mathieu. [52] pp., with 3 original lithographs (2 are fold-out lithographs), with one leaf "Degegement" laid-in. Tall thin folio, 270 x 95 mm., in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Michel Tapié, 1950. An extremely unusual and striking illustrated book by Georges Mathieu, a French abstract painter, art theorist, who is considered one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction, a trend of informalism. One of twenty hors commerce copies of a total edition of fifty copies, printed on Arches.
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- Title
- La Complainte sauvage. poème d'Emmanuel Looten orné de signes de Georges Mathieu
- Author
- LOOTEN, Emmanuel; GEORGES MATHIEU
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1950
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