FAUTRIER (Jean) - PAULHAN (Jean). - Lot 88

FAUTRIER (Jean) - PAULHAN (Jean). Fautrier l'enragé. Paris: Librairie Auguste Blaizot, 1949. - In-folio, 497x380: frontispiece, (2 blank ff.), 64 pp. (2 last blank ff.), 6 plates, illustrated cover. Leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. First edition of this fine work, the most important devoted to Jean FAUTRIER (1898-1964), illustrated by the artist with 23 color etchings and aquatints, including the frontispiece printed on Tonkin paper, 2 color lithographs, 2 heliogravures and 6 out-of-text reproductions of paintings (the justification announces 5). Edition of 250 copies; this is one of 204 on Marais vellum. A perfectly preserved copy. Some foxing on the plate leaves.