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MAYO [SIGNED]

Prévert, Jacques; Jean-Louis Barrault (Preface)

Paris: Galerie Dina Vierny, 1948. First edition. Softcover. Exemplaire L/L, signed Jacques Prévert, JLBarrault and Mayo on verso of half-title. Quarto. 20 (5)pp. Original cream stiff wraps with handmade textured tan dustjacket attached to spine. Frontispiece color lithograph by Mayo. Printed to Vellum du Marais paper. Preface by Jean-Louis Barrault and a fragment of a letter to May by his friend Jacques Prévert with two full page b/w lithographs by Mayo. List of thirty-nine exhibited artworks at rear. Text in French. Very light wear of wraps along edges. Block uncut at edges and unopened at two signatures. Wraps in very good+, interior in fine condition. Very good+ to fine condition. Item #49355

Antoinne Malliarakis (Mayo) (1905-1990) was born in Port Said, Egypt. Moving to France in 1924 he met Man Ray, Desnos, Tzara and Salmon in Paris. In 1927 he was introduced to André Breton by René Crevel and in 1929 Mayo exhibited his work with Chirico at the Galerie des Quatre Chemins. He returned to Egypt in 1934 and later back to France, spending six years in Cannes with his friend Prévert during the German occupation.

In 1944 Prévert recommended him as a costume designer for the film "Les Enfants du Paradis" which lead to a successful career in this genre for some twenty years. In 1966 Mayo moved to Rome and established himself as a painter. In the early eighties Mayo gradually lost his eyesight and moved back to France in 1985 where he received the Grade de Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Price: $500.00