Lot n° 166
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4000 - 5000
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Paul ELUARD et André BEAUDIN.
Shadow Doubles. Poems and drawings 1913-1943. Paris, Gallimard, 1945.
Large in-8: grey half-maroquin with bands, smooth spine decorated with vertical gilt fillets, vellum band bordered with gilt fillets on the boards decorated with two columns of gilt dots, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, folder, slipcase (Jacques
Anthoine-Legrain)
First edition.
One of the 30 first copies on Rives B.F.K. vellum paper (nº 21).
A beautiful book by four hands bringing together two creators who were exactly contemporaries - both born in 1895 - and who had met in 1937. They were very close, seeing each other regularly.
In November 1945, Eluard wrote the poem that served as a preface to the catalogue of the André Beaudin exhibition at the Louise Leiris gallery (reproduced in Voir) and Beaudin made several portraits of the poet, including a cubist bronze executed in 1946. Eluard owned several works by his friend. (Eluard et ses amis peintres, Centre Pompidou, 1982, pp. 77-78.)
A copy by the publisher Louis Broder with two original drawings, one by the poet, the other by the painter.
Paul Eluard's original drawing in violet pencil - two silhouettes of birds set in line - bears this winking note: to Louis Broder, this false drawing by Paul Eluard.
The drawing by André Beaudin - an abstract composition in coloured pencil - is dedicated as follows: to Louis Broder in memory of Geneva, Amicably, A. Beaudin 8.48.
Thus the poet and his last publisher (with whom he prepared Un poème dans chaque livre, which was finally published posthumously) are reunited with one of the painters who were solicited at the time, the painter and sculptor André Beaudin (1895-1979)
Remarkable decorated binding, still of Art Deco inspiration, by Jacques
Anthoine, Pierre Legrain's son-in-law.
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