[JACQUEMIN] - BARRES (Maurice) - November 2. Bièvres en Esso - Lot 942

[JACQUEMIN] - BARRES (Maurice) - November 2. Bièvres en Essonne, Pierre de Tartas, 1979; in folio, 91 pp, soft-fold cover embossed with a thistle from Lorraine, in its full green cloth slipcase, signed by André Jacquemin on the 1st plate, author and illustrator stamped in gold on the spine of the slipcase. Edition of 320 copies, ours n°41, on Arches vellum. Countersigned by Jacquemin, with bailiff's stamp. Typeset in Augustea 16pt. and printed on Pierre-Jean Matham's presses. Jacquemin's etchings were printed by the Giraudon workshops. As new. Text by Maurice Barrès in memory of his beloved Lorraine. These pages are dedicated to remembrance... This text is magnified by André Jacquemin's original etchings and lithographs. André Jacquemin was born in Epinal, Vosges, on September 3, 1904. He died in Paris on September 18, 1992. He was a great painter and engraver from Lorraine. In 1929, he founded the Société de la jeune gravure contemporaine, along with eleven talented friends like himself. In 1936, he was awarded the Grand Prix National des Arts, the first ever granted to an engraver! In 1953, he became Curator of the Musée de l'Imagerie (Pellerin) and the Musée départemental des Vosges in Epinal. Expert : M. Philippe HENRY