CORPS MEMORABLE by Paul ELUARD. Rare This copy with a dedication

This copy with a dedication by André BALTHAZAR: “A lire avec ou sans lunettes…”

Captions both in Italian and English

Large 4to (330 x 220 mm

title printed in black

Visual Poetry

CORPS MEMORABLE by Paul ELUARD. Rare This copy with a dedicationFirst edition. 12 black & white prints of naked female bodies photographed in the surf of the (Mediterranean) Sea. Text by Paul Eluard. Design of the front cover by Pablo Picasso. And a short introductory poem by Jean Cocteau. Photographs by Lucien Clergue (1957). "This book, with its distinctive cover by Picasso, was the first mainstream publication to show female pubic hair, allowable only because Clergue did not show the faces of his models, which