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  Georges Hugnet, “Tout beau mon Coeur” 1952

  GEORGES HUGNET (1906-1974) France

  “Tout beau mon Coeur” 1952

  Four full-page color lithographs.

  Limited edition of 50/50.

  Signed: Georges Hugnet

  Published by Pierre Seghers, Paris 1952.

   

  Dimensions:

  Book: H: 7 3/8” x W: 4 3/8”

  Custom leather box: H: 10 1/16” x W: 6 1/8” x D: 1 ¼”

  Custom silk slipcase: H: 10 7/8” x W: 6 1/2” D: 2 ½”

  Well-known as a writer, critic, collage artist, friend to the Dada and Surrealist movements and bookbinder, Hugnet wrote and illustrated many books, though rarely in the lithographic medium. This is a reissue of his poems first published in 1946, illustrated with his own lithographs.

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