PONÇ (Joan). Two lithographs. [Barcelona]: Enric Tormo and João Cabral de Melo, 1949. — Folio album, 344 x 248: (4 leaves, second and last blank), 9 plates (out of 10). Loose sheets, in an orange cloth portfolio illustrated with a lithograph on the front cover. A rare edition of this album featuring 10 black lithographs (out of 11) by the Catalan artist Joan PONÇ (1927–1984), including one on the portfolio and 9 as inserts, created between November 1948 and March 1949. Ponç was one of the central figures of Dau al Set, a group founded in 1948 with Brossa, Tharrats, Cuixart, and Tàpies, embodying its most surrealist and magical strand. This album was published the year of the group’s first exhibition at the Institut français in Barcelona and the artist’s meeting with Dalí in Port Lligat. The spine and edges of the portfolio are sun-faded. One lithograph is missing.