BELLMER Hans. HUGNET Georges. - Lot 61

BELLMER Hans. HUGNET Georges. CHISELED BRANCH BLINKERS. Paris, Jeanne Bucher, [1939]. In-12, pink cover covered with white paper lace leaves (light stains). Original edition illustrated with 25 hand-colored gravure compositions by Bellmer on several pages, poems by Georges Hugnet also calligraphed. Limited edition of 231 copies. One of 200 copies on Rives. Copy by André Pieyre de Mandiargues bearing this autograph signed letter: A mon très cher André Pieyre de Mandiargues, narrateur précieux et fantastique ami au coeur délicat Georges Hugnet 1946. Autograph note in pencil signed by Pieyre de Mandiargues: This copy was lent several times to Hans Bellmer, who took it apart to exhibit it, notably in Berlin in 1955, and then returned it to me. Attached is the preserved Vient de paraître and the subscription form on pink paper in Pieyre de Mandiargues's name.