LE PRAT ThérèseLivre Rare Book
LE PRAT ThereseABAA
Autres Visages d'Acteurs. WITH: Three subsequent works.
1952Best.-Nr. 585681952. First Edition. LE PRAT ThrÂse. Autres Visages dÕActeurs. WITH: Le Masque et lÕHumain. WITH: Un Seul Visage en ses Metamorphoses. WITH: En Votre Gravit Visages. Paris: Arts et Mtiers Graphiques / La Colombe / Plon / Vilo 1952-66. Four volumes. Slim folio 11 by 14-1/2 inches original bindings one in original dust jacket. Original 8-1/2 by 11 inch silver-gelatin print. Housed together in a custom clamshell box. $2200.First editions of Le PratÕs four separate photo-essays on dramatic facial expressions together containing 190 striking full-page hliogravures two copies inscribed to art critic Raymond Charmet. Accompanied by an original silver-gelatin print from negative.In 1931 violinist ThrÂse Le Prat became a professional photographer adopting a philosophy of photographer as ethnographer and claiming the theater as her territory. Throughout her career she created these four photobooks on emotional facial expressions. In 190 wonderful life-size portraits Le Prat captures a variety of famous faces painted in a number of dramatic modes among them Marcel Marceau Pierre Verry Jean Marais and Silvia Monfort. Texts in French. The recipient of two of these works is art critic Raymond Charmet editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Art 1972. This set is accompanied by a beautiful original silver-gelatin head-shot of Claire Motte ÒCes yeux clairs transpercentÓ with Le PratÕs studio stamp on the verso. Books near-fine with only minor shelf-wear. Original print fine. Dust jacket on Le Masque et lÕHumain with some wear. unknown books
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