Adonides
MIRÓ, Joan. Adonides. By Jacques Prévert. [2], 59, [10] pp. Illustrated with an original Miró coloured etching with aquatint signed and numbered by Miró in pencil, and 44 etchings with aquatint printed in colours, most of them with blind-stamping throughout. Folio, 403 x 355 mm, loose in a wrapper of Auvergne paper with blind-stamped image on front and back, laid into blue cloth box, blue, green, red and yellow cloth labels on spine, in a cloth folding box. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1975.
The Prévert text is written in the author's script throughout with Miró's amorphous and euphoric colour objects, scribbles and imagery splashed across every page, in, around and on top of the text. "Some of the poems are reproduced inside a frame etched and pulled dry based on copperplates engraved in 1947 by Miró in the Atelier 17 in New York" (Dupin, Miró Engraver p. 200).
The book also contains two blind-stamped original Miró images (Dupin 878 & 879). A very fine copy of this felicitous Miró title. Limited to 225 copies signed by Miró, Prévert and Maeght on the colophon; this being one of the 200 with the large hors texte etching signed by Miró laid in at the front.
Cramer, Miró Illustrated Books 203. Dupin, Miró Engraver III, 878-925.
Item nr. 148510
Price:
$20,000.00