The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 6 “Profound, Moving And Extraordinary” 4. (CHAGALL, Marc and BIDERMANAS, Izis) PRÉVERT, Jacques. Le Cirque d’Izis. Monte Carlo, 1965. Folio, original red cloth, dust jacket, acetate. $850. Click for more info First edition of this ingenious collaboration between poet, painter and photographer, with four original color lithographs of circus acts by Chagall and 76 stunning héliogravures of life in the circus, up-front and behind the scenes by “Izis” Bidermanas. A great friend of the poet Jacques Prévert, who wrote the text for this and other of his books, Paris Match photographer Israel “Izis” Bidermanas spent a career capturing Paris and Parisians. Le Cirque d’Izis is a collection of 76 Izis photographs in splendid héliogravure of French circuses, each accompanied by one of Prévert’s poems, and further enhanced by four magnificent circus prints and dust jacket design by another of his friends, Marc Chagall. Text in French. Fine condition. “A vast circus-like space of dream, enchantment, laughter, yet all possible emotion...” —Michael Bishop