Pensionnaires (Boarders) - Pl. IV from "Parallelement" by Paul Verlaine

 

Mariette Lydis

  1887 - 1970 (biography)

1949  

drypoint 

11 1/4 x 8" image size 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

title and date on verso in unknown hand 

 

cream BFK Rives wove 

published 

Georges Guillot 

22462 

$125.00 

From a small folio of drypoints illustrating "Parallelement", a series of poems regarding erotica and modern morality by Paul Verlaine, published by Georges Guillot. The total edition of 560 impressions was broken down into several numbered series, with different configurations of the prints in both black and white and hand-colored (by Guillot's wife Nadine). This impression came from an edition of 70 on Rives wove paper that included both the suite of 15 hand-colored drypoints published in the regular edition as well as 5 that were not (total 20), and a suite of all 20 of the drypoints wihtout the hand-coloring. The text included in the slipcased portfolio was printed by Joseph Zichieri.