Paul Valéry - Vers & Prose - (36 compositions de Pierre Laprade) - 1926

Paul Valéry. Verse & Prose
Paris, NRF, 1926
in-4 (28 x 19 cm)
97pp. 3f. (dernier blanc)

Very beautiful edition of this collection by Paul Valéry, adorned with 36 compositions by Pierre Laprade, of which 20 are watercolors with stencil (one frontispiece, a title vignette, 3 full-page, and 15 in-text, of which 2 are repeated on the cover) and 16 in-text in black.

Limited edition of 502 numbered copies. One of 420 on Arches laid paper, bearing no. 120.

Paperback, sewn binding and illustrated cover.
Exemplary in perfect condition, as new and entirely uncut.

Pierre Laprade (1875 - 1931) French painter and engraver. At the end of the 19th century he frequented Antoine Bourdelle's studio and, although destined for the judiciary, the sculptor encouraged him in the artistic path. In 1900, Ambroise Vollard bought his first work. That same year, at the Eugène Carrière Academy, Laprade met Henri Matisse and the future Fauves, with whom he would exhibit in 1905 at the Salon d'Automne. He participated in the 1901 Salon des Indépendants and had a solo exhibition at Ambroise Vollard. A founding member of the Salon des Tuileries, he exhibited there until 1930. In 1925, he painted the series Churches and Cathedrals, he decorated a tea service, and in 1926, he participated in the exhibition of the “Young Contemporary Painting” at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery and at the Katia Granoff Gallery.

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