Hugnet Berman (3 results)

Broché, couverture rempliée. Condition: Très bon. Berman (illustrator). Ed. originale. Edition originale. Un des 25 exemplaires sur Hollande Van Gelder, numérotés et signés par l'auteur et l'artiste, illustrés de 5 LITHOGRAPHIES originales hors texte d'Eugène BERMAN. >>Bel exemplaire non coupé.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. 1ère édition. 22,7 x 16,6 cm, broché, couv. rempliée imprimée en noir, 233 pp., 2 ff. n. ch. Edition originale ornée de 5 lithographies originales hors texte d'Eugène Berman. Un des 25 ex. sur papier vélin de Hollande (après 10 ex. sur Japon impérial), seuls exemplaires comportant les illutrations avec les 65 ex. sur vélin d'Arches. Exemplaire n°32, signé par G. Hugnet et E. Berman au colophon. Bel exemplaire, non coupé. Peintre et décorateur de théâtre américain d'origine russe, Eugène Berman (1899-1972) donne ici une saissante illustration en noir inspirée de Giorgio De Chirico. Signé par l'auteur. Livre épuisé.

From the Edition De Tête of the first edition. Tall 8vo., half-title, leaf with manuscript, title, section title, [1p.], pp-14-234, table, tirage leaf, 5 b&w hors texte lithograph plates interspersed throughout the text. In the original card covers, titles and a device in black, and overwrapper. Number 10 of 10 from the edition de tête with a page of manuscript from the text by the author, this, one of 500 numbered copies from a complete run of 502 copies, with 25 copies on Hollande Van Gelder numbered 11 to 35, 65 on Vélin D'Arches numbered 36 to 100; all these first 100 are signed by both author and illustrator and contain Berman's 5 lithographs. 400 copies without illustrations are on Alfa, numbered 101-400. There were also two copies legally deposited. In a polished leather and cream cloth covered slipcase and uniform portfolio with gilt titles on spine by, signed by H. Mercher in gilt on a pastedown of the portfolio. A signed, inscribed and dated presentation copy from the author to Jean Petithory. Paris, Éditions de La Montagne, Presses de la Union Treize, February 8 1930. £1,500.00 Crisp condition, endemic browning on spine. From the Edition De Tête, the BNF copy seemingly from the trade edition. A rare appearance in commerce, note that the two family copies from Christie's Hugnet sale in 2015 were from the tranche of 65 on Vélin d'Arches and number 104 from the trade tranche of 400 on Alfa. Provenance: Jean Petithory, Paul Destribats. The full inscription, written in a bold hand in black ink on the half-title, reads: 'á Jean Petithory, dont l'amitié attentive m'est un bien précieux d'un coeur reconnaissant, Georges Hugnet, 24 juin 1964'. ["To Jean Petithory, whose attentive friendship is a precious gift to me of the grateful heart, Georges Hugnet, June 24, 1964"]. A wonderful association copy from the finest part of the edition with an original fair copy manuscript of page 205 by Hugnet, in its original state, loose in a good enclosure by a named French binder (who was a friend of the writer's and his binder of choice). Petithory was an important avant-garde bookseller and Galleriste of the Librairie Galerie Les Mains Libres. He published Man Ray's Résurrection des mannequins in 1966. The great bibliographer Paul Destribats formed The Bibliothèque des avant-gardes, from which this book came, over a sixty year period. Berman, the exiled Russian artist is perhaps better known as a stage and costume designer for the great ballets of the twentieth century, a natural outlet for his neo-romantic painting style. Hugnet also collaborated on books with Hans Bellmer and many other great names from the Surrealist tendency.