La Tentation d`Occident [LIMITED EDITION WITH ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS].
Lithographies Originales de Walter Spitzer.
Author
Malraux, André / Spitzer, Walter [Lithographs]
Place of Publication
Paris
Publication Name
Imprimerie Nationale / Éditions Lidis
Year
1961
Language(s)
French
Description
RARE LIMITED EDITION WITH LITHOGRAPHS by Walter Spitzer (b.1927) who established himself in the 1960s as an illustrator of exclusive editions of works by André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Kessel, Nikos Kasantzakis and others. The Six-Day War prompted him to begin painting subjects from Jewish and Biblical history and in 1993 made the sculpture "Muselmann" for a Jewish memorial at the Buchenwald Memorialú as well as a memorial to the deportation of the French Jews in Paris, inaugurated by President François Mitterrand in 1994. COPY No.1662. André Malraux (1901-1976) was an eminent French novelist and art theorist who later in his life became Minister of of Information (1945-46) and Minister of Cultural Affairs (1959-1696). 285x235mm. 120 pages. Semi-rigid cover with dust-jacket, transparent plastic dust-jacket and slipcase. Slipcase dirty and bumped/wrinkled. Jacket spine edges slightly wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and beautifully illustrated edition of a novel by one of the most influential 20th-century French novelists is in very good condition.
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