Matinee d’ivresse Assassins le Temps (Voici le Temps des Assassins). 1949.
Lithograph, with watercolors.
Cf. Saphire 31. Signed and inscribed "1er essai".Monogrammed in the stone. Trial proof aside from the edition. On wove paper (with watermark). 33 x 25 cm (12.9 x 9.8 in), size of sheet.
Trial proof for sheet 8 from the series "Les Illuminations" for poems by Arthur Rimbaud, published by Grosclaude, Éditions des Gaules, Lausanne 1949. With a hand-written note from the publisher Louis Grosclaude on the reverse. [AW].

PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

In good condition. Sheet all in all discolored, with some mount staining. Small, isolated brownish spots.