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FIRST EDITION.
EDITION OF 100 COPIES ON ANTIQUE PAPER.
Malcom de Chazal's second theatrical work after Iésou, Judas was first performed at the Théâtre du Plaza (Rose-Hill, Mauritius) on 25 February and 27 March 1960.
AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER:
"To Loys and Hervé Masson,
amicably,
L De Chazal
13/05/53"
Like Malcom de Chazal, the Masson brothers were also prominent figures on Île-Maurice. Loys (1915-1969), a writer and active member of the Poets' Resistance, was close to Aragon, Lanza del Vasto and Max-Pol Fouchet. In 1945, he was appointed General Secretary of the National Writers' Committeethen editor-in-chief of French letters in 1946, before devoting himself to novels and plays from 1948. He was awarded the 1962 Del Duca Foundation prize for his body of work.
A poet, but above all a painter, Hervé (1919-1990) achieved a degree of recognition after a contract with the Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville gallery in Paris (1957-1968), then with the Cernuschi gallery in Paris and New York. His works can be found in many museums, including the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.
Front board and spine insolate. Upper spine torn over 2 cm.