![Jean GENET. La Galère. Paris, [Jacques Loyau, at the author's expense], 1947.
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![Jean GENET. La Galère. Paris, [Jacques Loyau, at the author's expense], 1947.
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Jean GENET.
La Galère. Paris, [Jacques Loyau, at the author's expense], 1947.
Small folio: half dark blue morocco, smooth spine, blue-stained woodblock boards set in a morocco frame, untrimmed, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (J.-P. Miguet).
First edition printed on author's account in July 1947.
Limited edition of 80 copies, this one nº LXV on Rives vellum paper.
The illustration includes 6 beautiful original out-of-text etchings by Leonor Fini.
The work was condemned on July 3, 1954 by the criminal court of the Seine, a condemnation that was not upheld on appeal "for procedural reasons unrelated to the offence itself".
Jean Genet and Léonor Fini met around 1947, the year of the creation of
Bonnes. Shortly afterwards, the confidential edition of La Galère illustrated by Fini was published, and the following year the only ballet composed by Genet, choreographed by Roland Petit to music by Darius Milhaud, with costumes by Leonor Fini, was performed at the Théâtre Marigny. In 1950, Genet published a Letter to Leonor Fini in which he expressed in a few pages his fascination for this original and independent artist whom he considered an incarnation of Dionysus.
A perfect copy, enriched at the head with a beautiful original homoerotic drawing signed by Leonor Fini.
From the Robert Vieil library, with bookplate.
(Pia, Les Livres de l'Enfer, col. 552.)
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