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Fernand Léger. - Éluard, Paul 
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Liberté, j'écris ton nom. Folded accordion-style booklet. Original screen print on paper. 28.8 x 111.5 cm. Housed in a private half-linen clamshell box (slightly rubbed) featuring a title on the spine and an inlaid, color-illustrated title on the cover. Paris, Éditions Seghers, (1953).
This is the second edition, published in the same year as the first (which is very rare) and distinguished from it by the use of screen printing for the reproductions. The first edition comprised 200 numbered copies featuring pochoir coloring. In the present work, Léger (1881–1955) illustrated the poem "Liberté" by Paul Éluard (1895–1952), which was first published underground in 1942 as a leaflet within the collection *Poésie et Vérité*. It has been translated into ten languages. Éluard and Léger had met shortly after the end of the Second World War through their shared involvement with the Communist Party. Léger, who had previously created a portrait of Éluard in 1947, produced this poetic work to pay tribute to his friend Paul Éluard, who died in 1952. The screen prints were executed by Claude de Romefort (1918–2010) in Marseille based on Léger’s original compositions; Romefort is credited on the print itself (bottom left), alongside the publisher, Éditions Seghers. - Discreetly restored at the corners and fold lines; each corner has a small puncture mark resulting from mounting with thumbtacks. Slightly browned and rubbed. - Monod 4214 (first edition).
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