Paris: Éditions “À la Découverte”, [1963]. First edition, number 150 of 190 copies. 4to, 28x23cm, 13, [2]pp text plus 16 color and black and white plates laid in publisher's illustrated cloth folder, as issued. In French. Inscribed by Ayme to Arthur Secunda "dans l'amitie de Jacques Temple" on the first leaf. Also laid in is an original watercolor by Ayme, also inscribed to Secunda and dated in 1963. Plates lightly toned, watercolor with a few hints of minor foxing, folder rubbed around edges.

Fine association copy with original art from French painter and chromatic abstraction theorist, Albert Aymé (1929-2012).  This portfolio sets out Aymé’s early formulation of ordered visual language which was constructed from color, geometry, and rigid sequence.  This later developed into a musical technique of painting with canon, counterpoint, and other themes.

Price: $300.00