CARZOU. Engraver and Lithographer II. - Lot 59

CARZOU. Engraver and Lithographer II. First edition. Copy from the deluxe edition containing a series of 6 signed lithographs. Nice, Editions d'Art de Francony, n.d. [1975]. In-4, turquoise cloth binding decorated with a gilded profile of a woman on the front cover, housed in a folio slipcase of the same cloth featuring the same profile and containing the series in a cloth folder. 220 pp., numerous black-and-white and color reproductions. Minor soiling on the slipcase. First edition of the second volume of the catalog raisonné of Jean Carzou (1907–2000). Commentary by Maguy Furhange, preface by Roger Caillois, and introduction to the work by Marcel Brion. Text in French, English, and German. Enclosed: the publisher’s presentation booklet and a typewritten letter regarding this edition (on an in-4 sheet with printed letterhead). One of 300 copies of the deluxe edition, accompanied by a set of 6 lithographs, all numbered and signed by the artist in graphite (No. 84). In excellent condition.