Portfolio with complete set of 10 etchings and the title page etching with hand coloring in watercolor, 1943-44 (printed in 1980). 283x380 mm; 15x11 1/4 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
One of 70 numbered copies from the first published edition (only some proofs printed contemporaneously with the making of these prints in 1943-44, they were however considered too provocative for their time and were specifically commissioned by a collector but never published until 1980). Numbered 26 on the justification page. Each etching except the title page signed and numbered 26/70 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Éditions Sabatier-Satié, Paris.
Although printed in 1980, the etchings were created in 1944, under the direction of Stanley W. Hayter (see lot 434), at the New School of Social Research, New York. Sabatier 1-7 (4 prints not recorded by Sabatier).
