LYDIS, Mariette, illustrator. André de RICHAUD. ~ Vie de Saint Delteil. Avec un portrait par Mariette Lydis. Paris: [Ducros et Colas for], La Nouvelle société d’édition, [ 1928].
4to (227 × 160 mm), pp. 97, [5], portrait frontispiece. Original wrappers. A fine copy.
First edition, tirage de tête, copy number 6 of 30 copies on Japon (total edition 1100). A witty appreciation of Joseph Delteil, in the form of an ironic literary hagiography by his friends. Novelist and critic Joseph Delteil was associated primarily with the Surrealists, but he was an early admirer of the work of Mariette Lydis and also her lover for part of 1928. It was Delteil who observed that Lydis ‘paints with her breasts’, a remark which proved to be a controversial subversion of Renoir’s claim to ‘paint with my prick’ (Gluzman, ‘Desire, Mystery, Devotion: On Mariette Lydis’s Trajectory’, ISFLAA NY, ‘From the Desk of...’ 22 November 2024).
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