
Et II Faudra Mourir Sans Avoir Tué Le
Original linocut printed in black ink on white Rives wove paper.
Image size: 9 5/8 x 7 1/16 inches
Sheet size: 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
1944
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Bearing the artist's estate monogram blindstamp lower right.
A richly printed impression of the definitive state.
From an edition of 100, numbered in pencil lower left '32/100,' {there were 125 impressions printed on velin de Rives paper and numbered 1 to100 in Arabic numerals; 25 were reserved hors commerce and numbered I to XXV in Roman numerals.
In pristine condition, printed on a sheet with deckled edges all around. One of 71 full page linocut plates (apart from the cover and many designs and illuminations in the text also created in linocut) illustrating the Henry de Montherlant text. The impression were printed from the artist's original linoleum blocks by Marthe Fequet and Pierre Baudier, Paris, and issued in the two volume album 'Pasiphae/Chant de Minos.'
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