Le Travaux Et Les Jours; Eaux-Fortes Originales De Jacques Villon
Paris: Teriade/Editions Verve, 1962. Villon, Jacques. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. Folio, 38 x 28 cm. Limited edition, copy 140 of 180 signed on velin de Rives signed in pencil by Villon. Illustrated with 23 etched illustrations by Jacques Villon, 19 in black and white, of which 12 are double-page, and 4 in colours, of which 3 are double-page. Among Villon's greatest achievements as a printmaker was his creation of a purely graphic language for cubism ??" an accomplishment that no other printmaker, including his fellow cubists Pablo Picasso or Georges Braque, could claim. Hesiod a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. Wide text margins, bright very clean copy. Orig. contents loose as issued in stiff printed wrappers. Fine in very good cloth backed brown portfolio housed in matching very good nicked slipcase. Item #21675
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