SUARÈS André - Atlas. Poème de ... Gravé au burin par Joseph Hecht. Paris 1928; Demichel et Ploquin. folio, k. [1],...

SUARÈS André - Atlas. Poème de ... Gravé au burin par Joseph Hecht. Paris 1928; Demichel et Ploquin. Folio, pp. [1], 12, [1], plates 7. loose pages.
Grosinska 235. minor edge crease of one plate, ironed trace of vertical fold of pages, missing cover sheet and one blank page. Issued 132 copies, this one no. 31. A neatly issued album containing a title page, a facsimile of Suares' text printed in red ink, a colophon card, 7 plates with signed copperplate engravings in pencil by Jozef Hecht. The boards symbolize: Earth, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arctic, and the sky. "This Lodz-born 'racial' graphic artist, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (who also painted), restored copperplate to European art, not only in his masterful workshop workmanship, but also in animalistic themes rarely practiced with such consistency (with a dominance of motifs of wild animals hunting in their natural habitat)." (K. Kulpinska "Polish Graphic Artists in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s", 2015).
J. Hecht (1891-1951) - a graphic artist, painter, sculptor, a student of W. Weiss at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, active with short breaks in Montparnasse in Paris since 1919. He maintained artistic and social contacts with Modigliani, Lipchitz, Kogan, as well as with the Jung Idysz group in Lodz. His work was influenced by Edward Munch, among others, whose works he became acquainted with during his stay in Norway.