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Lot 217
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No place ("Quelque Part en France"), June 1944. First and only edition, #71 of 300 numbered copies. Portfolio of 12 lithographic prints published to support the French resistance during WWII ("Edite par le Front Nationale des peintres au profit des Francs-Tireurs et partisans Francais."). Presentation copy, inscribed by artist, contributor and portfolio organizer, Andre Fougeron, and signed by artist and contributor, Edouard Pignon, to Philadelphia artist Emlen Etting: "Aout 1944 ler mois de la liberation/a Emlen Etting/Bien cordialement/Fougeron, Pignon". Presumably gifted to Etting sometime during his service in the Office of War Information in France, possibly during his presence at the liberation of Paris, in August 1944. Illustrated with 12 black and white lithographs, in original limp paper wrappers; plates 1 and 12 signed by Fougeron, plates 9 and 11 signed by Pignon. Including an additional onionskin leaf laid in identifying each contributing artist, as well as an additional typed onionskin document from Joseph Billiet, Directeur General des Beaux-Arts, and co-organizer of the portfolio. Scattered light soiling.