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CIRLOT, Juan Eduardo.. Lucio Fontana.

Barcelona. Editorial Gustavo Gili, [1966].
Small 4to. 59pp. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in pink, with original publisher's photographic dustwrapper. Boards sharp, wrapper a little nicked and marked. Presentation inscription to FFEP: 'For Sir Laurence Olivier with my greatest admiration.'
Juan Eduado Cirlot (1916-1973) was a Catalan poet, art critic, and translator who published extensively over several disciplines, though is internationally remembered today as the creator of the Dictionary of Symbols (1958). He was a collector of antique swords. The subject of this book, Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) was an Argentine-Italian artist, famously known as the first artist to deliberately slash their canvas.

From the library of Laurence Olivier, to whom many books were gifted over the length of his illustrious, industrious, and enduring career as one of the most important figures of stage and screen in the 20th century.
£ 125.00 Antiquates Ref: 31209