Lucien Clergue (b. 1934)

3 handmade albums. 'Nus de la mer': with 10 vintage silver prints, titled in blue crayon on the front cover and on the first double page and signed in yellow crayon and numbered in ink on the next double page. Number 29 from an edition of 150.
'Gitans': with 10 vintage silver prints. The album titled in pink crayon on the front cover and on the first double page, and dedicated and dated '1962' in yellow crayon on the first page.
'Maïs': with 10 vintage silver prints. Titled in brown crayon on the first double page and signed in crayon and numbered in ink on the following double page. Number 18 from an edition of 150.

Nus de la mer: In its original dust jacket. Gitans: without numbering but presumably from an edition of 150. Mais: The cover broken in the spine, back cover jacket missing. - The photographs in very good condition, the album pages with slight traces of age. All pages are loose double pages (fold in the middle). The editions were probably never completely executed. Please note that Gitans contains 11 prints, not 10.
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