Christian Jequel, Gérard Blua, 1989, HC, NF.

Blua, Gérard. Marseille: Editions Le Temps Parallèle, 1989.

French, English, & Japanese, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 9 3/4",  [7] 207 pp.

ISBN: 2867410435

Brown cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to spine, stamped gilt artist's signature to front panel, slight cocking to spine, light wear to edges, otherwise, signature to front panel, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, dust jacket and endpapers. Very Good pictorial dust jacket, featuring wrap around artwork by French artist, Christian Jequel (b.1935), white and black lettering to front panel, black lettering to spine, minor wear to edges, tips, back panel, head, and tail, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [7] 207 pp. Includes essay "Jequel or the Trace of the Life Through Space" by Gérard Blua, full-color Plates, Biography, Main One-Man Exhibitions in France, Major Joint Exhibitions, and List of Oeuvres. From the essay: "What interests [Jequel] is the subject's progress through measurable human time, i.e. its movement, which he seeks to eternalize...There are never any intimist works, no portraits and above all, no still lifes. We find, on the contrary, places where men live at one with nature."