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34 - René CHAR. *L’Inclémence lointaine*.
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Estimate €15,000 - €17,000
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Description
René CHAR. *L’Inclémence lointaine*. With twenty-five engravings by Vieira da Silva. Paris, Pierre Berès, 1961. Folio, black morocco leather, the covers decorated with an intaglio geometric design on a black box background, the edges of which are covered in white box, spine decorated with a cold-embossed geometric design featuring a mosaic of black box, linings and endpapers in pearl-grey box, untrimmed, gilt head, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (P.-L. Martin, 1964). Partly original edition, illustrated with 25 full-page chiselled engravings by Vieira da Silva. A selection of poems taken from *Fureur et Mystère*, *Les Matinaux* and *La Parole en archipel*. *Pour un Prométhée saxifrage* appears here for the first time. Limited edition of 130 copies on Japanese paper. One of the 10 first-edition copies accompanied by two sets of engravings on vellum and Japanese paper, and an original drawing (no. 5). The original drawing in Indian ink, bound at the front, is full-bleed. “The book sealed […] an unclouded friendship, built on mutual admiration and affectionate gestures, between two beings as sovereign as they were different. In 1960, Char wrote the introductory text for the Vieira da Silva exhibition at the Jeanne Bucher Gallery. Together, in January 1963, they produced a small book published by PAB, then in 1973 undertook the project that would result in *Sept portraits*” (Coron, *René Char*, 2007, p. 146.) A sumptuous binding adorned with a two-tone relief design by Pierre-Lucien Martin, executed with consummate skill. (Original binding, National Library, 1965, no. 312.)
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About the sale Henri Michaux, the Sven Pitsey collection
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 2:00 PM
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