64pp. 25 illustrations. (25 hors text.) General Condition: Fine. Exterior: Fine. Interior: Light Foxing. Typical slight offsetting on pages adjacent to gouache. Contained in chemise and slipcase.

Lecuire, who met Andre Lanskoy in 1948 through fellow book artist Nicolas de Staël, was the one to suggest—when he invited Lanskoy to illustrate Cortège in 1958—that Lanskoy use a method of collage for the illustrations. The final product, like Matisse's masterpiece "Jazz," would be rendered in pochoir my master colorist Beaufumé.

Cortège is now often compared to "Jazz" as perhaps the finest example of pochoir in the postwar period. Inscribed by Lecuire on the title page to Maurice Beaufumé, calling him "l'admirable 'coloriste' de Cortège." Printed on Arches Vellum paper, this example is in very good condition save for the usual offsetting of some of the plates onto the adjacent text page, not affecting the images. A beautiful example of this important book.