Lithograph on vélin du Canson & Montgolfier Vidalon-Les-Annonay paper. Paper size: 8.27 x 9.45 inches. Excellent condition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, pierre ã feu provence noire, 1945. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris, and Éditions pierre ã feu, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris and L'imprimerie, Paris, November 1945. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), This collection has been drawn at CML examples signed by André Marchand. XLIX copies on Arches vélin paper numbered from I to XLIX and CML examples on vélin Vidalon numbered from L to CMXCIX. The lithographic stones were created by the artist. Printing was completed in November, one thousand nine hundred forty-five by Mourlot Frères and L'imprimerie on behalf of the editions Pierre a Feu. ANDRE MARCHAND (1907-1997) was a French painter of the new Paris school and one of the founder members of the Salon de Mai. Marchand was born at Aix-en-Provence, a few months after the death of Paul Cézanne; in 1918 he lost his mother. He studied at the Jesuit secondary school at which his father taught maths, and began to paint aged 14, using Montagne Sainte-Victoire as the subject for his first watercolours. He was in the milieu of Matisse and Picasso.