710. SONIA DELAUNAY. Juste Présent (Le Coin des Arts).

Book comprising 8 etchings with aquatint printed in colours, one original text page written by Tristan Tzara (Des profondeurs II), one additional etching with extensive hand colouring by Delaunay and signed in pencil (framed), text pages, Justification du tirage No 5, published by La Rose des Vents, Paris 1961, etchings printed by Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris.
Loose between boards in slipcase with lithographic covers.
40.7 x 30.2 cm.
This set lacks the additional suite of 8 etchings, and also lacking the original gouache by Delaunay.

PROVENANCE: Galleri Nordqvist, Malmö, thence by descent.

Juste Présent is a collection of Tristan Tzara's poems written between 1947 and 1950 with illustrations by his long-term collaborator and friend Sonia Delaunay. Published in 1961, a period where Delaunay returned to painting and printmaking with styles and techniques akin to the early years of her career. The bright, abstract forms which she had pioneered at the beginning of the century now appeared in a whole new dimension and for a new audience). However, this was not simply regurgitating her previous art, as she said herself, 'abstract art is only important if it is the endless rhythm where the very ancient and the distant future meet'.