Eluard, Paul and Rene-Jean — Jacques Villon Ou L'Art Glorieux

Paris, Louis Carre. Softcover. Yellow wraps, glassine dust jacket, 62 pp. 7 color lithographs, 3 BW drawings. Text is in French. Subtitle on cover: Il construit un tableau, un epi, une rose, un visage, un sein nu. A tribute to the work of French cubist painter Jacques Villon, born Gaston Duchamp (1875-1963). Begins with a poem by Paul Eluard, and then relevant quotes from Leonard de Vinci, Charles Baudelaire, Eugene Fromentin, Paul Cezanne, Felix Bracquemond, Jules Michelet, Theophile Silvestre, Honore de Balzac, and Guillaume Apollinaire. The second part is an "Eloge de Jacques Villon" by Rene-Jean. The illustrations are interspersed throughout. #1066 of 1800 copies. G- (Glassine dj has substantial wear with several inches missing in two places; book cover shows some age and soiling; pages are generally good with only slight tanning along edges; plates and text pages are clear, though the ones adjacent to plates mirror some tanning.) .