Michel RAGON

Photographic portrait of Martin Barré smoking a cigarette
s.ls.d(ca 1960), 12.5 x 17.8 cm, one photograph
Black and white photographic portrait, contemporary silver print on gloss paper, of the painter Martin Barré. Stamp of the photographer Michel Ragon on the back of the photograph, as well as some handwritten annotations in felt-tip pen, in ballpoint pen and in pencil.
“À partir du milieu des années 1950, Martin Barré inaugure la voie d'une abstraction singulière, ni informelle ni géométrique. Sa peinture est vite remarquée comme l'une des plus ambitieuses du moment en cherchant davantage à révéler l'espace qu'à produire des formes. Dès 1958, le Guggenheim Museum le fait...

First edition on ordinary paper.
Front endpaper marginally creased, otherwise a handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Michel Ragon to Marcel Arland.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscriptions from Victor Vasarely and Michel Ragon to Madeleine Kaupmann.

Edition for which he was not drawn large paper, review copy.
Signed autograph of Michael rageon Lucien Guissard.
Handwritten library storage heads of the front cover and the first guard, print buffer Length of the title page.