An Original Ink drawing design for a binding.by Paul Bonet. Signed with the Estate Stamp.
Paris: Circa 1950s-1960s. Color ink drawing on tracing paper with a detailed design for a binding. Stamp of the Vente Paul Bonet from June 1990....
The drawing stands by itself as a Surrealist image....
Un dessin à la plume sur papier calque, maquette de reliure (30 x 24 cm, cachet Vente Paul Bonet)....
The French graphic designer and reliure artist Paul Bonet (1889–1971) was active for more than forty years, designing covers for books on art, literature and philosophy. His practice developed alongside, and was inspired by, the main artistic currents of twentieth-century art in France (Art Nouveau, Cubism, Art Deco, Surrealism, Geometric Abstraction). While Bonet, who called himself an “essayist of bookbinding”, is famous among bibliophiles for his handmade covers, his name is also familiar to wider audiences thanks to his designs for mass-produced book covers....
Included is a "Certificate d'exportation pour un bien cuturel" issued by by Ministère Culture of France...
Expertise by Thierry Bodin,
Syndicat Français des
Experts Professionnels en Œuvres d’Art.
Les Autographes
45, rue de l’Abbé Grégoire 75006 Paris. Item #51-3906
Price: $1,000.00