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Published by New York and Paris: Juliette Halioua Ltd and Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1973, 1973
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First and sole edition in English, signed by the publisher, Juliette Halioua, on the front pastedown. This treatment of the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty, with pictographic representations rather than text, is presented in the accordion-form for which artist Warja Lavater is best known. Scarce: WorldCat lists only three copies (Zentralbibliothek Zürich; SUNY Buffalo; and UCLA). Lavater was one of seven women artists to attend Ernst Keller's class at the Fachklasse für Grafik an der Kunstgewerbeschule Grafik in Zurich. After she moved to New York in 1958, Lavater was struck by American street advertising, and began to incorporate pictograms as linguistic elements in her designs. MoMA published her "William Tell" as an accordion-form single-sheet lithograph in 1962, and Lavater pursued this form throughout the remainder of her career. Slim quarto. Leporello-style accordion-form colour lithograph, internal metal display hook, folding into original quarter blue cloth portfolio, colour lithograph on paper covered sides. A fine copy.