Lot 152
[Matta, Roberto] Jarry, Alfred. Ubu Roi Drame en Cinq Actes. Signed First Limited Edition
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
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[Matta, Roberto] Jarry, Alfred. Ubu Roi Drame en Cinq Actes
Paris: Atelier Dupont-Visat, 1982. First and limited edition, #8/150 numbered copies on Arches paper (from a total edition of 165). Tall folio. Illustrated with an etched folding pop-up frontispiece, etched vignette on title-page, eight full-page color etchings, each signed by Matta and numbered 8/150, as well as numerous black and white in-text etchings, all by Matta. Comprising 19 bifolium leaves, loose as issued, in publisher's stiff etched wrappers, in silk-covered slip case and chemise, chemise lettered in gilt. Original publisher's prospectus laid in. Slip case unevenly toned with scattered soiling, lightly frayed at bottom.
A fantastic and important work by Roberto Matta, illustrating Alfred Jarry's influential proto-Surrealist play Ubu Roi.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
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From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
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