ÁNGEL ZÁRRAGA Profond Aujourd'hui by Blaise Cendrars.
Bound volume with complete text and 5 color illustrations (2 hors-texte, 2 en-texte and one on the front cover), 1917. 187x180 mm; 7 1/2x7 inches (sheets), full margins.
One of 250 numbered copies on Arches, from a total numbered edition of 305 (plus 26 lettered copies). Numbered 210 on the justification page. Printed by François Bernouard, Paris. Published by La Belle Edition, Paris.
Zárraga (1886-1946) was a Mexican artist who studied at the at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, and moved to Paris in 1911. He only returned to Mexico once, at the outbreak of World War II, for a short time. During the 1910s, at the outset of his career in Paris, Zárraga painted in a Cubist style and was also an early influence on the Surrealist movement.
Cendrars (1887-1961), who was born in Switzerland and worked most of his career in Paris, was among the leading avant-garde poets of his day and collaborated with numerous notable modern artists to create illustrated works like this, including Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, and Robert and Sonia Delaunay.
