One of 300 copies on vélin Marais paper (no. 47), complete with the plate out of text — the only printing.
It was through Jean Grenier, who introduced Camus to Maguet, and the painter Marcel Damboise, whom Camus had met in Algeria in the 1930s, that Camus became interested in Richard Maguet’s paintings. The two painters resided at the artists’ villa of Abd-el-Tif, at a time when Camus was a philosophy student, around 1933, and had exhibited together. Camus had written at length about Maguet in a column for Alger étudiant in 1942.
This representative of the École de Paris was killed in a bombing on 16 June 1940, at Sully-sur-Loire. He was honored the very next year by Jean Grenier in a fine article published in Fontaine (no. 15, September 1941), later reprinted in the first monograph devoted to him, also in 1941, at the Galerie Louis Reynaud.
This second exhibition gives pride of place to Camus’s text: apart from a loose illustration by Maguet, the catalogue consists entirely of this text.
The whole was printed in 300 copies by Mourlot.