L'ÉCHOPPE (Éditions de) - Lot 236

L'ÉCHOPPE (Éditions de) Set of 44 volumes (43 in-12 and small in-12 format, stapled in filled covers, one bound; and one in-4 oblong format bound in mauve box decorated with cold filets). Including: GRIS (Juan). Des possibilités de la peinture. - ALECHINSKY (Pierre). Notes sur Orsay. - MIRBEAU (Octave). On Zola's statue. - COROT (Camille). Notes. - PAULHAN (Jean). La Peinture moderne & le secret mal gardé. - DELACROIX (Eugène). Notes on competitions. - PAULHAN (Jean). Letter to Jean Dubuffet. - DEGAS (Edgar). Letters from New Orleans. - FAUTRIER (Jean). On virtuosity. - KAHNWEILER (Daniel-Henry). Eight interviews with Picasso. - DUCHAMP (Marcel). The Creative Process. - CLAIR (Jean). De l'invention simultanée de la penicilline & de l'action painting, et de son sens. The oblong-format work is as follows: CORNIÈRE (François). L'Écluse. 1987. Edition with 2 original serigraphs by Bernard Louvel. Edition of 50 copies, numbered and signed by the authors. Founded in 1984 by Patrice Cotensin, the publishing house L'Échoppe created the "Envois" collection the following year, reprinting texts already published in out-of-print specialized magazines, mainly on art history. Most of the paperbacks presented here are on vellum paper (runs of 30 or 50 copies), the only large-format paper before the current run on Bouffant paper, and are sometimes signed by the authors or artists.