Lot 328
"Survivants", Dry Point Engravings and Etchings by Monique Frélaut - Portraits of Holocaust Survivors - Paris, 1945 - Numbered Copy
Survivants, eaux-fortes et pointes sèches originales de Monique Frélaut, présentées par Yanka Zlatin et Dorine Mantoux [Survivors, etchings and dry point engravings by Monique Frélaut…], Paris, 1945. French.
Portfolio with etchings and dry point engravings by Monique Frélaut - portraits of holocaust survivors who passed through Hotel Lutetia (hotel in Paris used as a repatriation center for holocaust survivors after the war).
The portfolio contains 30 etchings and engravings (most of them on separate leaves. One print appears on the cardboard cover of the portfolio), and was published by Dorine Mantoux and Sabine (Yanka) Zlatin, a Jewish-French woman who was known mainly for her work during the holocaust in the children's home in Izieu, France.
A numbered and signed copy, no. 78 out of an edition of 375 copies.
[29] paper sheets (some folded into two), 28 cm. Inserted in a cardboard cover (on which one of the portraits and the title of the portfolio are printed). Good condition. Clean leaves. Slight defects to cover. Dark spine.
