AUSCULTER LE DÉDALE / Qotbi - Césaire

Ausculter le dédale

Aimé Césaire / Medhi Qotbi

Volume 2 of the collection “The art notebooks of Puisaye”

    It is more than 40 years after the publication of "Lost Bodies", a rare book illustrated with 32 engravings by Pablo Picasso in 1950, that the Martinican writer and politician, Aimé Césaire, offered a text to the artist Medhi Qotbi for the edition of a bibliophile book produced at Atelier RLD.


This rare book includes 3 original copper engravings measuring 20 x 15 cm signed by the artist.

The colophon is signed by the author and the artist.

75 copies printed on Hahnemülhe paper.

* 60 copies numbered from 1 to 60

*10 copies justified E.A. from I to X reserved for the author and the artist

* 5 lettered copies for book artisans

Completed printing on December 20, 1991 on intaglio and typographic printing from the Dutrou workshop.

Canvas cases 27.5 x 40 cm


Robert and Lydie Dutrou publishers 1991