Corps Memorable Eluard poetry Clergue nudes Picasso cover 1957 first edition

  
Corps Memorable, Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1957. 35 plus 12 glossy halftone plates, plain boards quarter-bound in light brown wood, dust jacket with front panel image by Pablo Picasso, photos by Lucien Clergue, all text in French. Thirteen poems by Eluard illustrated with Clergue's photos of what may be the same female body, shown from different angles, always headless and in water. See Bertolotti, Books of Nudes, p. 147: The book shows women looking like Juno, coming out of the waves of the sea as if they were symbolic forms of life. Jacket bright with wear at corners, no tears, with original acetate overwrap. Leaves clean but a couple are loose, which is typical of this book; images fine. This item is in the category "Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "maximumservice845" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Subject: Art & Photography
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Numbered
• Year Printed: 1957
• Language: French