Original folder in cardboard grayish paper with etching by Hayter, pasted in the middle.
1939 · Paris/New York
by Stephen Spencer. Louis Aragon. With 9 signed etchings by Miro, Kandinsky, Hayter, Buckland-Wright, Hecht, Husband, Mead, Rieser and Vargas
Sans lieu [New York and Paris], March 1939. Poem by Stephen Spender, translation in French by Louis Aragon.
Stephen Spender's poem "Fall of a city" is followed by its French translation by Louis Aragon "Chute d'une cité"; both poem and translation are signed by Spencer and Aragon in pencil. A remarkable album of 9 original engravings by John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter, Josef Hecht, Dalla Husband, Wassily Kandinsky, Roderick Mead, Joan Miró, Dolf Rieser and Luis Vargas, all signed in pencil by the artists. An additional etching by Hayter that integrates the word Fraternity on an abstract line-drawing, is mounted on the album's hard folder (truncated)
Stephen Spender's poem "Fall of a city" is followed by its French translation by Louis Aragon "Chute d'une cité"; both poem and translation are signed by Spencer and Aragon in pencil. A remarkable album of 9 original engravings by John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter, Josef Hecht, Dalla Husband, Wassily Kandinsky, Roderick Mead, Joan Miró, Dolf Rieser and Luis Vargas, all signed in pencil by the artists. An additional etching by Hayter that integrates the word Fraternity on an abstract line-drawing, is mounted on the album's hard folder (truncated)