(ALECHINSKY, PIERRE). ALECHINSKY, PIERRE & EUGENE IONESCO. FOREWORD BY LEON A. ARKUS - ALECHINSKY - WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED COLOR LITHOGRAPH
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977, First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. (ISBN: 0-8109-0656-2) Cloth in Illustrated Jacket, 4to, 260pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with Pierre Alechinsky's receiving the first Andrew W. Mellon Prize, and an attendant exhibition at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, this was the first comprehensive English monograph on the noted Belgian artist. It is copiously illustrated (including "sixteen pages especially produced by the artist"), and features numerous texts by Alechinsky as well as an introduction by renowned playwright Eugene Ionesco. Limited to one hundred copies only, this is from the edition that is SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist with a SIGNED AND NUMBERED color lithograph laid in, as issued. A most handsome copy.. Fine/Fine.
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