Jean-Michel Folon - La mort d'un arbre - 1973

Excitingly numbered copy 235 of this fascinating work that combines 24 watercolors and a text by the author. This book is preceded by a color lithograph by Max Ernst -

Through a deliberately pared-down narrative, where the text and image respond to each other in a continuous dialogue, Folon tells the fate of a tree which, after growing through the seasons, offering its shade, sheltering birds, withstanding the elements and quietly contributing to the balance of the landscape, is ultimately condemned by human intervention -

The tree becomes the central character of a universal fable in which it embodies at once life, memory, the permanence of nature, and the vulnerability of living beings confronted with unchecked progress -

Without resorting to explicit militant rhetoric, the author shows with great sobriety how human activities, urbanization, industrialization, and the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources progressively lead to the destruction of a living heritage on which everyone’s existence nonetheless depends -

Jean-Michel Folon - The Death of a Tree - 1973 - Alice Editions -
24 watercolors -

Good binding condition, landscape-format work in its full original soft cover illustrated, small stains and signs of wear from use, some minor defects on the cover, some losses to the spine, smooth titled spine, front cover beautifully illustrated in color and titled -

Very good interior condition, work containing 24 watercolors and a text by the author preceded by a color lithograph serving as a foreword by Max Ernst, one of 3,500 copies numbered from 100 to 3599 (No. 235), interior rather fresh, a fascinating copy -

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