Description
Paris, édition galerie Z, 1979
Green folder with black printed and green stamped titles, 15 x 10 cm, 54 loose postcards. Text in French.
A set of postcards issued for the Festival International de la Carte Postale d’Avant-Garde in 1979 by édition galerie Z in Paris. The stamp on the folder calls for 53 cards but it actually holds 43 cards and 10 postcards with text. Text in French by Silvie Forestier (conservateur, Chef de l’iconothèque, Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires), Julien Blaine, Christian Rigal, Jean-Pierre Seguin (Conservateur en Chef Cabinet des Estampes Bibliothèque Nationale), Marilena Pasquali, Charles Dreyfus, Franco Solmi and Alain Weill (Conservateur, Musée de l’affiche). With cards by Franco Solmi, Ugo Pozzo, Cejar, francais celte, Claude Torey, M. Nielsen, Bruce Schnabel, john ghost, Alain Snyers, Harvey Redding, Ivo Zlosiho, Alex Mlynarick, Re Florentin, Philippe Berard, Virgilio Fontan, Lucio Cabutti, Mendes Albuquerque, Bernard Quentin, Annibale Carlo Bianchi, Joelle Hybaut, Gianmarco Montesano, Julien Blaine, Paolo Calia, Remo Bianco, Artur Alipio, Gil David, Egidio Alvaro, Françoise Janicot, Giorgetta Longo Campagnoli, Sebastiano Quaglia, Jean Louis Gaillemin, Hérve Fischer and various illegible signatures. Cards printed on color paper stock.
This is copy n° 181 with a signed postcard by Gil David.
Tirage
1000 exemplaires numérotés de 1 à 1000. Les exemplaires 1 à 150 contiennent chacun 3 cartes originales de John Ghost. Les exemplaires 151 à 430 contennient chacun 1 carte originale d’un artiste.
A fine set. Scarce. One library holding at Biblioteca del Museo Reina Sofía traced, no copies in the trade.
