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Petrificada Petrificante. (Pétrifié Pétrifiante)

Tapies. Paz, Octavio

Paris. maeght éditeur. 20th Oct, 1978
Tàpies illustrating Paz.

From the edition limited to 195 copies on 'papier à la main du Moulin du Larroque' signed by Paz and Tàpies,

Octavio Paz's text is present in Spanish and French. The French text is translated by Claude Esteban and marks the first appearance of Paz's text in French.
Large folio (548 x 432 mm). Illustrated with signed engraved frontispiece and six engraved plates (including two double-page) by Antoni Tàpies using etching, aquatint and carborundum; the engraved wrappers for the book using the same technique form the eighth engraving. Loose as issued in original publisher's engraved wrappers by Tàpies, publisher's brown cloth box with black decoration by Tàpies.
#47453