Jean Clarence LAMBERT. - Lot 147

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Jean Clarence LAMBERT. - Lot 147
Jean Clarence LAMBERT. The Folies françaises. Paris, Gianni Bertini, 1964-1966. In-folio, tabbed, red half-maroquin, flat spine with mosaic title in capital letters of black morocco, transparent plastic mouldings painted in colours covering the plates, the first one with removable window on the back to access the lighting system with battery, linings and guards decorated with airbrush, cover filled with colour illustrations and covered with preserved vinyl, box in red half-maroquin lined with beige velvet (Gianni Bertini & Mercher). Original edition made by the artist: coloured stencil text and 22 colour prints, five of which are laminated with coloured vinyl. The cover is also illustrated with prints and covered with vinyl. Announced edition of 6 hand-printed copies, signed by the author and the artist: he actually made a dozen of them. Non-commercial copy reserved for the author enriched with : - An original signed print, trial for the boxing; - An unused trial casting, signed and dated 1964; - Three prints from this casting captioned by Bertini: "Tartignol print"; "Improved trial" and "Almost good (which I don't have in the book)"; - An original form (in relief) used in the book, signed and dated. An emblematic book of Mec'Art (Mechanical Art) founded by Gianni Bertini (1922-2010), Les Folies françaises is one of the most striking French artists' books of the 1960s, both for its use of brightly coloured painted plastic moulds replacing the leather of traditional bookbinding, and for its graphic design based on the misappropriation of images from the women's press of the time. One of the first three copies made, bound by Mercher. Following the exhibition devoted to Gianni Bertini and the Folies françaises at the Denise Weil bookshop in December 1993, the copies were now bound not by Mercher but by Loutrel, with the original plastic plates. The lighting system of the first plate was not replaced but, unlike all the others
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