page size 31 X 33 cms My copy has a simple green
cloth board to protect the original book in paper wrappers. The illustrations
are pochoir, coloured by hand using stencils, and I wanted to
show you the whole book because there is so little known about the achievement
of this particular book. If you feel driven by the need to find out more
about Legrand (1953) click here but
his other work shows nothing of the daring, bravura, invention and sheer
sustained visual power of Macao et Cosmage, unrivalled in the twentieth
century, and completed when the artist was only 18. |