Le carnet des nuits
Marie Laurencin
Published by Pierre Cailler, Geneva, 1956, 98 pp. (b/w ill.), 11 × 17.3 cm, French
Price: €175

Better known as a painter and printmaker than for her writing, at the beginning of 1956, which would be the year of her death, Marie Laurencin published the definitive version of Carnet des nuits an autobiography where she mixes prose, aphorisms, poems, pages of personal diary, notations gleaned over time, and embellishes it with three drawings.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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