Etching on vélin Johannot d’Arches paper. Paper size: 15.25 x 11.5 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Paroles peintes I, 1962. Published by Éditions O. Lazar-Vernet, Paris, under the direction of Odette Lazar-Vernet, Paris; printed by Maitres Imprimeurs, en Taille-Douce Capelle-Lacouriere, Leblanc-Robbe-Visat, Paris, December 5, 1962. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), Printing completed, December 5, 1962 on the presses of the Maitres Imprimeurs, en Taille-Douce Capelle-Lacouriere Leblanc-Robbe-Visat for engravings, and for typography, on the presses of the Maitre Imprimeur, Theo Schmied; Jacques David, providing the layout for this portfolio with fourteen original etchings and fourteen unpublished poems, two hundred examples were drawn of which, 1 example on papier japon nacré, bearing the number 1, accompanied by a suite on papier japon of etchings signed by the artists, a second deuxième suite of 13 etchings from engraved, striped and inked coppers; 14 examples on papier japon nacré, numbered from 2 to 15, accompanied by a suite of the 14 etchings on papier japon signed by the artists, a second suite of 13 deuxième etchings; 35 examples on papier Auvergne by hand, numbered from 16 to 50, accompanied by a suite of the 14 etchings on Richard-de-Bas, signed by the artists; 150 examples on papier Johannot, numbered from 51 to 200. In addition, it was shot on Johannot 28 non-trade nominative examples, marked H.C. From 1 to 28; 5 examples numbered for employees from I to V; and, in large format, 25 examples of all engravings numbered from I to XXV reserved for the artists. ALBERTO MAGNELLI (1888-1971) was an Italian modern painter who was a significant figure in the post war Concrete art movement. Magnelli was born in Florence on July 1, 1888. In 1907 he started painting and, despite lacking formal art education by 1909 he was established enough to be included in the Venice Biennale. His initial works were in a Fauvist style. Magnelli joined the Florentine avant-garde befriending artists including Ardengo Soffici and Gino Severini. He also visited Paris where he met Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cubists including Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, and Alexander Archipenko. By 1915 he had adopted an abstract style incorporating cubist and futurist elements.