BOURDELLE, Pierre (illus); Pierre Claudel and Stephen Galatti (text)

War [Special Artist's Edition]

[New York: by the Author, 1945]: 1945. First, Limited Edition. The Special Artist's Edition, comprised of 250 signed, numbered copies (this is no.76). Oblong folio (33cm x 43cm). Cloth-board portfolio; 5 preliminary leaves and 52 color lithographic plates, loose as issued. Slight wear to the portfolio; plates uniformly clean and unmarked; Near Fine.

The plates reproduce 52 of Bourdelle's expressionist battlefield drawings, composed while he was serving as an ambulance driver in the North African and Italian campaigns during the Second World War. The plates, printed by the New York art printer Albert Carman, are of exceptional quality, generally in two or three colors on heavy art paper. Preliminary essays by Pierre Claudel and Stephen Galatti (Director of the American Field Service). The limited edition is uncommon (there was also a trade edition issued the same year by American Studio Books).

Price: $500.00

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