[SOULAGES] Edmond HUMEAU. - Lot 93

[SOULAGES] Edmond HUMEAU. The Nine of the Heart. Poems. Illustrations by Pierre Soulages. Paris, Le messager du poète, José Millas-Martin, 1956, in-8 leaves in slipcase. Illustrated with a vignette and a hors-texte plate on coated paper by Pierre Soulages. First edition limited to 50 copies, illustrated with an etching by Pierre Soulages, signed in pencil, and presented in a slipcase. One of 19 numbered first copies on Vélin Pur Fil Lafuma (no. 6), enriched with a fine felt-tip letter from the author to Pierre Beck, and accompanied by an unpublished signed manuscript poem "Chant d'Alouette fils du soleil", "tiré d'Encore une gorgée de soleil (inédit)", one page in-4 dated XX.I.LVII . Of the utmost rarity, the plate is not even listed in the catalog of printed works, making this powerful composition one of the artist's earliest attempts in this field.