Adonides by Miro - Prévert - 1975

"Never as in this book it has better bounced, invented, danced, deepened, and created, without heaviness, a monumental work, measure of the accuracy of a desire and a friendship " (Jacques Dupin).

Rare first edition of the last text of Prévert, who died 10 days before its publication, illustrated by Miro.

One of the most important books of Miró.

"Jacques Prévert having died before the end of the printing of the book, a facsimile of his signature has been reproduced next to the handwritten signatures of the illustrator and the publisher."

"In these Adonides, the verve, the faconde, the uninterrupted finding of Prévert, here they are reduced to fragile bursts, to moving calls. But written by his hand, in black ink on white Arches paper raised by dry-stamped figures. On these handwritten reliefs, Miró returns several times, with the point, the etching, the aquatint, and ends up with forty-five engravings, which are neither illustrations nor illuminations, but rather a parallel writing, with the semantic and symbolic thickness of a palimpsest, day after day raised. A complex work, a work of disarming simplicity. A very vibrant drawing, pure colors in flat tints, in halos, in vaporization. An engraved reading of the text, which does not hesitate to cross it, to question it, to extend it beyond the margins. A setting in movement, in space, of an extreme strength and restraint. Never as in this book has he better bounced, invented, danced, deepened, and created, without heaviness, a monumental work, measure of the accuracy of a desire and a friendship " (Jacques Dupin, Miró, p. 428).

There were 200 copies printed on Arches vellum, numbered from 1 to 200, as well as offprints numbered from I to XXV and a few nominative copies. All copies are signed by the author, the artist and the publisher. The first off-text etching is numbered and signed by Miró.

The text of the unpublished poems of Prévert are reproduced in facsimile of the author's handwriting. It is accompanied by 46 original compositions by the artist, including an etching and aquatint on double page signed by the artist at the head of the book, and 45 other etchings and aquatints accompanied for the most part by dry-stamped motifs.

"All reflection made by these times of misfortune the mirror broke" (Abonides, Jacques Prévert).

A very nice copy in perfect condition, preserved as issued in a beautiful blue cloth case of the publisher.