PROVENCE (Marcel) - LOMBARD (Emile). Provence and purity. - Lot 282

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PROVENCE (Marcel) - LOMBARD (Emile). Provence and purity. - Lot 282
PROVENCE (Marcel) - LOMBARD (Emile). Provence and purity. Aix en Provence, Editions du Bastion, 1957. Large in-4°, bradel white vellum, very ornate smooth spine, illustrated cover preserved, lined case (Drouar). UNIQUE EXAMPLE although justified (One of the XV (n°IV) on Madagascar vellum). It is decorated with 24 unpublished compositions (7 full-page and 17 small ones in bands or in culs-de-lampe), "with fire paint called Ignis by Emile Lombard from Aix, painter encauste, creator of the process; ALL THE PLATES ARE ORIGINAL, they bear the signature of the artist and form, consequently, as for the illustration, a unique whole which could not be reproduced. By this process of drawing with waxes of colors melted by fire, the artist obtains extraordinary effects. Beautiful copy bound by René Drouar, former worker of Devauchelle, established in Aix in 1954.
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