ESTAMPES ORIGINALES. LA MAGIE QUOTIDIENNE
1968
No. 79
Estampes originales / La Magie quotidienne / Jean Arp / Georges
Braque / Alberto Giacometti / André Masson /
Joan Miró / Pablo Picasso / Jacques Villon / Zao Wou-ki
/ Louis Broder Éditeur à Paris / 1968 /
Folio (550 x 385 mm / 2111/16 x 153/16
in.). Loose in a folded Rives wove cover with an impression of
an intaglio by
Alberto Giacometti, pulled from the cancelled plate, on the front.
Grey cloth box with two white labels printed in
black glued to the front and spine respectively.
1 woodcut printed in colors (360 x 271 mm / 141/8
x 105/8 in.) (1961), signed in pencil and
numbered from 1/70 to
70/70 or I/X to X/X on Montval wove, from I/XV to XV/XV on Japon
Nacré, from I/XV to XV/XV on green Japon
Ancien and from 1/10 to 10/10 on laid Misumi.
Edition: [120] unnumbered copies printed on different papers.
Printing: [1968]
[Fequet et Baudier, Paris, for the text and typography.]
[Crommelynck et Dutrou, Paris, for the woodcut by Masson.]
Collation: 8 unnumbered leaves from 4 sheets - 2 blank leaves of Arches wove - 1 leaf of Arches wove with title recto - 1 leaf of Arches wove with edition information about the prints verso - 1 leaf of Arches wove with edition information about the prints recto - 1 blank leaf of Arches wove (9 inserted leaves with a woodcut by Arp, intaglio by Braque, 2 intaglios by Giacometti, a woodcut by Masson, an etching by Miró, an etching by Picas- so, a lithograph by Villon and an intaglio by Zao Wou-ki; each print is pre- sented in a sheet of Guarro wove folded in half) - 2 blank leaves of Arches wove Note: This album was the fourth of the Broder "Estampes originales" series (see Nos. 38, 43, 68). All contributions except the Giacometti (1963) and the Picasso (1968) were executed between 1959 and 1961. One assumes that the publication was deferred because of Picasso. Unlike the other albums, this is not related to a book. Perhaps Broder had something in mind when he commissioned the artists, but if so, he dispensed with it by the late date of 1968. This is Masson's only woodcut. The printing varies, so that sometimes the wood grain is evident but other times the impression is heavier and the grain disappears. The Montval paper has only the watermark LB (Louis Broder), but no Montval symbol. There is a proof of the black line on Auvergne with the LB watermark.