Jean Fautrier (1898-1964)
André Frénaud (1907-1993)
La femme de ma vie
Paris: Librairie Auguste Blaizot, 1947
Quarto (29 × 18.3 cm), loose sheets, pink lace cover
Original edition.
Andre Frénaud's autograph poem reproduced in heliogravure.
Illustration: 6 etchings and aquatints in purple by Jean Fautrier, 5 double-page and the full, uncut, folded and mounted on lace (52.5 × 89 cm). Numerous handwritten variations of the title, declined in purple and pink.
From an edition of 29 copies. One of 2 copies on Auvergne wove paper for Legal Deposit, signed by the author (justified "F").
In 1947, Jean Fautrier continued his collaboration with the Librairie Auguste Blaizot. He illustrated the same year L'Alleluiah by Georges Bataille and La Femme de ma Vie by André Frénaud. In the illustrations, we discerne elements of the female body: legs, hips, breasts and sex. The title, calligraphed and then rotographed, is repeated between the engravings, in variations of lines that make it meander like the frolics described by André Frénaud's poem and compose an almost carnal relationship with the hand that composed it.
Bibliography: R. M. Mason, Jean-Fautrier, les Estampes, no. 188-no. 203.
