CORPS MEMORABLE by Paul ELUARD. Rare Small 4to (210 x 150

Small 4to (210 x 150 mm)

This copy with a dedication by André BALTHAZAR: “A lire avec ou sans lunettes…”

Dark-grey cloth covered boards with a little image pasted on the front cover and an illustrated dustjacket

Visual Poetry

Captions both in Italian and English

CORPS MEMORABLE by Paul ELUARD. Rare Small 4to (210 x 150First edition. 12 black & white prints of naked female bodies photographed in the surf of the (Mediterranean) Sea. Text by Paul Eluard. Design of the front cover by Pablo Picasso. And a short introductory poem by Jean Cocteau. Photographs by Lucien Clergue (1957). "This book, with its distinctive cover by Picasso, was the first mainstream publication to show female pubic hair, allowable only because Clergue did not show the faces of his models, which