CALDER (Alexander) - CALDWELL (Erskine). - Lot 82

CALDER (Alexander) - CALDWELL (Erskine). The Sacrilege of Alan Kent. Paris: Maeght éditeur, [1976]. - Oblong folio, 400x454: 91 pp, (8 ff. last two blank), illustrated cover. In sheets, filled cover, publisher's slipcase. Fine edition illustrated with 20 original color etchings by Alexander CALDER (1898-1976), featuring the artist's favorite subjects such as snakes, waves, the sun, starfish, the moon and more. Limited edition of 220 numbered copies on Rives wove paper, signed by the author and artist at the justification, those with odd numbers being in the original version and those with even numbers in Marcel Duhamel's French translation. "This book is considered the ultimate work of Alexander Calder, who died on November 11, 1976, a few days before publication. The print is dated November 15, but Calder had signed the books and plates already printed" (éditions Maeght). One of 140 copies numbered from 61 to 200, this one in the original version, numbered 77. Rousseurs inside the slipcase.