[CONTEMPORARY ART]. Deffontaine. - Lot 30

[CONTEMPORARY ART]. Deffontaine. Nice, Editions d'Art de Francony, 1976. Square quarto, burgundy cloth-bound, and 1 cloth-bound portfolio of the same, together in a publisher’s slipcase, also burgundy. Unpaginated, 2 etchings. First edition of this beautiful album in a deluxe edition containing 2 original etchings, captioned, numbered, and signed in graphite by the artist. Limited edition of 75 copies, numbered, verified, and signed in ink by the artist. “Deffontaine’s work is steeped in an expressionist atmosphere that is at once surreal, fantastical, and dreamlike, and in which, above all, eroticism blends delicately into dense and masterful compositions” (preface). In excellent condition.