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.
Faberge (attr.) Oval gold (18K rose gold) box with an extremely fine and intricately carved agate cameo medallion of Zeus, c. 1895
For a related oval gold and cameo medallion box in the Russian National Museum presented in the original Iosif Marschak Kiev box see: Illustration #560 “Faberge / Cartier” by Geza von Habsburg (2003)