Ponge Debre (3 results)

couverture souple. Union | Paris 1963 | 21 x 27.50 cm | en feuilles | Edition originale imprimée à 33 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin, seuls grands papiers. Agréable exemplaire de ce texte écrit à l'occasion de l'exposition du peintre Olivier Debré à la galerie Knoedler en février 1963. Signatures manuscrites de Francis Ponge et Olivier Debré au colophon. Exemplaire bien complet de sa gravure originale à double page d'Olivier Debré qu'il a signée. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition printed in 33 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy of this text written for the exhibition of painter Olivier Debré at the Knoedler gallery in February 1963. Manuscript signatures of Francis Ponge and Olivier Debré at the colophon. Copy complete with its original double-page engraving by Olivier Debré, which he has signed. *.

4to. (216 x 276 mm). [4 bifolia: 8 unnumbered leaves]. Initial blank with presentation from Debré (see below), original double-page monochrome lithograph as frontispiece, signed by the artist in pencil, leaf with title, two leaves with Ponge's text dated 'Janvier 1963', final leaf with justification recto. Loose as issued in original publisher's printed wrappers with lithograph illustration by Debré to covers. Presentation copy of a scarce publication which accompanied Olivier Debré's exhibition at Galerie Knoedler in February 1963. From the edition limited to 33 numbered copies, each with Debré's signed original lithograph and signed by Ponge and Debré to the justification in pencil;Debré's presentation is in black ink to the initial blank: 'A Louis Barnier / en souvenir reconnaissant / et l'amitié / d'Olivier Debré / Fev 63'. Olivier Debré (1920-1999) became involved in the language of abstraction in the 1940s, following a visit to Picasso's studio. He formed a new generation of School of Paris painters with artists such as Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Stael and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Louis Barnier was a member of the College of Pataphysics and director of L'Imprimerie Union from 1957.

P., Union, 1963, in-4, en feuilles, couv. illustrée, non paginé. Edition originale de ce texte écrit à l'occasion de l'exposition Olivier Debré à la galerie Knoedler en février 1963. 1/33 ex. num. (seul tirage en grand papier), justifié et signé au colophon par l'auteur et l'artiste enrichi d'une belle lithographie originale en dyptique signée par Debré.