Miró Joan, MONTLUC Adriaen de LE COURTESAN GROTESQUE Paris,... Lot 306

Miró Joan, MONTLUC Adriaen de LE COURTESAN GROTESQUE Paris, Le Degré Quarante et Un, 1974: in-folio (420 x 290 mm) of 2 bl. ff., 60 ff., 2 bl. ff. - In sheets, in parchment cover illustrated with an original drypoint in color by Miró. The set is contained in a fiber-paper folder; publisher's gray cloth folder and slipcase, illustrator's name and publisher's signature in black on the spine. Edition illustrated with a color drypoint and aquatint on the parchment cover and 15 original color engravings. Iliazd's last book, Le Courtesan grotesque was proposed to Miró in 1951, who accepted two years later. The extensive correspondence between the two men bears witness to the difficulties difficulties encountered by the painter over the 20 years or so during which the project was several times over. Edition of 110 copies, this one of 62 on Auvergne Richard-de-Bas (n°69), signed by Iliazd and Miró on the label. A very fine copy. Printer: Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris. Bibliography: Cramer, 182; Dupin, IV, p. 12; Françoise Novarina-Raslovleff, Le Courtisan grotesque. Histoire d'une coopération lente et féconde de deux géants du livre, Iliazd et Joan Miró, Carnets de l'Iliazd Club, VI, 2005.