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Psaumes. Gravures au burin par Cecile Reims

1951ref. 499080Paris: Editions Arts du Monde 1951. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Raymond Cogniat. Folio. Loose folded sheets laid into printed folio as issued. Illustrated with eleven original etchings by Cecile Reims: ten full-page etchings and with a smaller etching on the title page. The text is in French and Hebrew. The etchings and binding are fine very fresh and bright in the publisher's unprinted glassine and in publisher's tan paper-covered chemise and publisher's slipcase box. Spine of chemise has light wear on spine with small light brown stain on lower spine else very good slipcase is rubbed at extremities and is else very good. Limited to 400 numbered copies sur velin de rives paper of the artist's first book. Cecile Reims a French-Jewish artist was born in Paris in 1927. Following the occupation of France she joined the Jewish combat organization in 1943 and at the conclusion of the war in 1945 she discovered that her entire family had been massacred. Jean-Noel Jeannerey President of the French National LIbrary stated the following at the opening of the French National Library exhibit "Cecile Reims Engraver" at the Louvre in 2004: "When she was very young her energy was forged in France in the Resistance movement then in Palestine- but shortly thereafter health deficiencies forced her to take up less. intense strenuous combats in the field of art. Initiated in burin engraving in Paris by Joseph Hecht a rigorous master she produced over 60 original works between 1950 and 1960 which attracted much attention. Her encounter with Hans Bellmer afterwards was decisive. No one can deny that her work contributed greatly to extending the universal success of Bellmer. In the same way after 1971 she worked with many drawings by her husband Fred Deus and by Leonor Fini. For the past few years she is once again doing engravings based on her own compositions. Her talent as an interpreter first secretly then revealed ties her to a splendid tradition. Her own talent as an inventor showing both virtuosity and elegance deserves being acknowledged." Psaumes 1951 is her first published work following her first exhibition at the Le Fanal Gallery. Later in the same year the Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem presented her first exhibit of engravings. Uncommon. OCLC locates five holdings. Editions Arts du Monde unknown