Contre Terre (Signed, limited edition)

Rene de Solier; Germaine Richier; Pierre Gonin

Lausanne : Andre et Pierre Gonin, 1958

[Artist Book] Limited edition of 155, signed by Germaine Richier, Rene de Solier, and Pierre Gonin. Folio, 39 x 27 cm.  Loose, as issued, held in publisher's wrappers in vellum-backed linen chemise and slipcase.  130 pages.  Illustrated with 24 original etchings by Germaine Richier, including 10 full-page etchings.  Printed on papier d'Auvergne. "Her mixed etchings for the poem Contre terre by Rene de Solier are informed by an identifiable and very individual sculptor's idiom ... they are strangely haunting, whether almost wholly etched line or ... mostly tonal aquatint with occasional accents of line" - Strachan. Monod 10343 - Strachan p. 177, The Artist and the Book 260. 

This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.