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an image of a black and white drawing of a womanla lumiee etfeuile / silent by saint - paul / night dismensist / iron sunshinean open book sitting on top of a white tablea brown and white book sitting on top of a white tablea black and white picture of a woman sitting in a chairan open book with a poem written in french on ita black and white drawing of a woman sitting on a bedan open book with a picture of a cat laying on top of itan open book with a black and white drawing of a snake on it
KÂ- MONDO / KAPANDJI MORHANGE

259 - SAINT-PAUL, Albert and SAINT-PAUL, Jean.
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Estimate €80 - €150
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SAINT-PAUL, Albert and SAINT-PAUL, Jean. *De la lumière effeuillée*. A poem for a festive day. Paris, ‘La Cible’ Art Collection, J. Povolozky & Cie, 1922. In-4 (32.5 x 25.5 cm), Unpaginated [38 leaves] Small tears, with no pages missing, at the bottom edge. Second edition, illustrated with 12 woodcuts designed and engraved in the Art Deco style by Jean Saint-Paul. A print run of 300 copies on thick laid paper, numbered 1 to 300; this copy is no. 163 (The first edition, published in the same year, had a print run of 200 copies). A collection of poems by the Symbolist poet Albert Saint-Paul, one of the founders of *L’Ermitage* (a Symbolist journal). He contributed to *La Wallonie*, *Écrits pour l’art* and *Pan*. A fervent admirer and friend of Stéphane Mallarmé, he was a frequent guest at the ‘Mardis de la rue de Rome’. A fine copy, entirely uncut.
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Auction time 11/02/2026 at 2:00 PM
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