Adonides
« Never, as in this book, did he rebound, invent, dance, deepen, and create, without heaviness, a monumental work, measure of the accuracy of a desire and a friendship» (Jacques Dupin).
First edition of Prevert’s last text illustrated by Miro.
A beautiful copy of a stunning copy preserved as issued.
Large 4° of (2) blank ll., 59 pp., (4) ll.
Cover with an embossed form, 46 etchings and aquatints in color including a double signed by Miró and numbered 14/200 in frontispiece, blue canvas nesting, 4 pieces of colored canvas printed on the back.
405 x 333 mm.
Miro, Juan - Prévert, Jacques.Adonides.
Paris, Maeght, 1975.
Rare first edition of Prevert’s last text illustrated by Miro.
One of Miro’s major books.
« In these Adonids, Prevert’s verve, the way, the uninterrupted discovery, they are reduced to fragile bursts, to disturbing appeals. But written by his hand, in black ink on white arches raised by figures stamped dry. On these handwritten reliefs, Miró returns several times, to the point, to the etching, to the aquatint, and ends up at forty-fourfive engravings, which are neither illustrations nor illuminations, but rather a parallel writing, with the semantic and symbolic thickness of a palimpsest, raised day by day. A complex work, a work of disarming simplicity. A very vibrant drawing, pure colors in aplats, halos, vaporization. An engraved reading of the text, which does not hesitate to cross it, to challenge it, to extend it beyond the margins. A movement, in space, of extreme force and restraint. Never, as in this book, did he rebound, invent, dance, deepen, and create, without heaviness, a monumental work, measuring the accuracy of a desire and a friendship» (Jacques Dupin, Miró, p. 428).
200 numbered copies on Velin d’Arches were printed, some hors commerce ( I to XXV) and a very few nominative copies. Each of these copies signed by the author, the artist and the editor. The first aquatint was signed and numbered by Miró.
The text of Prévert’s unpublished poems is reproduced in facsimile of the author’s writing. It is accompanied by 46 original compositions by the artist, including a double-page etching and aquatint signed by the artist at the head of the book, and 45 other etchings with etching and aquatint, mostly accompanied by dry-stamped motifs.
A beautiful copy of a stunning and moving book preserved as issued.
