Stanislas Lepri, Composition, Variations Sur L'Imaginaire, Lithograph

Condition: Pre-Owned
Lithograph on vlin de Rives paper. Paper size: 14.5 x 10.75 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: hand signed and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Variations sur l'imaginaire, 1972. Published by Philippe Lebaud, diteur, Paris; printed by ateliers de Ren Guillard, Paris, March 15, 1972. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), The circulation of this work from the collection Variations has been limited to 190 examples which are justified as follows: twenty examples on Japon Nacr, numbered from 1 to 20 to which was attached a suite on Rives des lithographies and an original gouache; thirty examples on Auvergne numbered from 21 to 50 to which a suite on Rives des lithographies was attached; one hundred and forty examples on Rives numbered from 51 to 190. A non-commercial example marked 0 was drawn for each of the employees of the edition. Completed on March 15, 1972, the edition was produced under the direction of Alain Bosquet and Philippe Lebaud with the collaboration of Jacques de Cornulier and Jean-Franois Fouquereau and the contribution of Pierre Jean Mathan for typography. The lithographs of Cremonini, Fred Deux, Delmotte, Hlion, Herold, Masson and Peverelli, were drawn at the workshops of Fernand Mourlot; the lithographs of Coutaud and Labisse at the workshops of Jacques Desjobert; the lithographs of Aillaud, Dufour, Ferrer, Man Ray and Monory at the workshops of Clot, Bramsen and Georges; the lithographs of Leonor Fini, Lamy, Lepri and Rohner at the workshops of Ren Guillard; the lithographs of Baj and Lunven at the workshops of Michel Cass. The binding was executed by Jacques Ebrard based on a model by Paul Mc Lennon. The texts and lithographs bear the autographs of their authors.

STANISLAO LEPRI (1905-1980) was an Italian surrealist painter and former Italian consul to the Principality of Monaco. Born in the house of "marquis Lepri marquis of Rota" Member of the Roman nobility, Stanislao Lepri was the Italian consul for the Principality of Monaco. He moved to Paris in 1940 where he befriended artists such as Picasso, Ernst, and Breton. Their influence can be seen in his later works. The following year he met Leonor Fini and in 1943 when he was called back to Rome she went with him and stayed until the end of the World War II. In 1946 they returned to Paris and Lepri abandoned his diplomatic career to become a painter. Shortly after Fabrizio Clerici introduced Fini to Polish writer Konstanty Jele?ski, known as Kot, in Rome in 1952 Jele?ski joined Fini and Lepri in their Paris apartment and the three remained inseparable until their deaths. Lepri was a theatre set designer and an illustrator. Among his various creations were the scenes for Voyage aux tats de la Lune by Cyrano de Bergerac and in 1950 the costumes for L'Armida in Florence for the Maggio Fiorentino.
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