GIRARD. BAUDELAIRE (Charles). My heart laid bare.... Lot 13

GIRARD. BAUDELAIRE (Charles). My heart laid bare. Illustrated by An. Girard. Nyack, New-York, the artist, 1951. In-4, 21 bifeuillets including the title, in leaves under publisher's filled soft cover. Very rare work by the French painter André Girard (Chinon, 1901 - Nyack, N.Y., 1968). The edition was limited to 30 copies, hand-printed in silkscreen (this one unjustified), between January and March 1951. Texts and drawings were traced directly by the artist on the silk screens used for the print run. A renowned painter and poster artist in Paris in the 1930s, André Girard was the founder and leader of a resistance movement during the Second World War, which led him to leave France in 1943 and settle in the United States. He decorated several churches in New York, Vermont, and California, where he designed the stained glass windows of the Saint Anne's Chapel in Palo Alto.