Ballade du pauvre macchabé mal enterré
€1,450.00
A scarce homage volume in which René Dalize’s poem is accompanied by six original woodcuts by André Derain. Four plates are hors texte and two are embedded in the setting, establishing a cadence between text and image. François Bernouard’s stripped-down typography heightens the poem’s archaic, flinty voice. The book breathes the aftershock of war and the loss of Apollinaire, whose memory is evoked in the closing tributes. Derain’s cutting is angular, monumental, and deliberately restrained, letting the grain speak. The wide margins and square format lend the images a near-liturgical presence. For bibliophiles this is a hinge work at the meeting of poetry and avant-garde printmaking. This copy is numbered, printed on Arches, and signed by Derain.
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Dalize, René
Derain, André
Ballade du pauvre macchabé mal enterré
1919 | Paris | François Bernouard
Early Derain on Arches, signed, six woodcuts — copy 24/110.
A scarce homage volume in which René Dalize’s poem is accompanied by six original woodcuts by André Derain. Four plates are hors texte and two are embedded in the setting, establishing a cadence between text and image. François Bernouard’s stripped-down typography heightens the poem’s archaic, flinty voice. The book breathes the aftershock of war and the loss of Apollinaire, whose memory is evoked in the closing tributes. Derain’s cutting is angular, monumental, and deliberately restrained, letting the grain speak. The wide margins and square format lend the images a near-liturgical presence. For bibliophiles this is a hinge work at the meeting of poetry and avant-garde printmaking. This copy is numbered, printed on Arches, and signed by Derain.
€1,450
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In-4 Carré approx. 27×29 cm
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One of 110 copies on Arches, signed by Derain.
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110
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No. 24
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Derain’s woodcuts balance Fauvist energy with archaic restraint. The cut is direct—broad planes, economical line—and the timber’s grain is used as an expressive voice. The four hors-texte plates act as autonomous pauses that steer the reader’s gaze. In the two in-text vignettes he amplifies Dalize’s tone without anecdotal illustration. The mix of monumental scale and raw texture yields a composed gravity.
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