Lithograph and stencil on papier vélin des Manufactures d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Paper size: 11 x 8.875 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Les Biches, 1924. Published by Éditions des Quatre Chemins, Paris; printed by Ateliers Daniel Jacomet & Cie, Paris, December 10, 1924. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), Édition de grand luxe, in-4 carré, printed in CCLX numbered examples, including LX, numbered from I to LX, on papier de Hollande van Gelder, and numbered from LXI to CCX, on papier vélin des Manufactures d'Arches, plus LXXV examples, hors commerce. FRANCIS JEAN MARCEL POULENC (1899-1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957), and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir, and orchestra.