Sunshine at Midnight.

Laporte (Geneviève)

Sunshine at Midnight.

Memories of Picasso and Cocteau. Translated and with annotations by Douglas Cooper.

Description: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 8 plates with 11 monochrome illustrations, pp. xii, 123, crown 8vo, original brown boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge maroon and a little dusty, dustjacket with chip at head of rear panel, very good

Publication Details: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1975]

Notes: With the contemporary ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles): she an artist, friend of Carrington from the Slade, and on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group - including as the sometime-partner of David Garnett, Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney Turner, and J.M Keynes. Bagenal met and socialised with both Picasso and Cocteau whilst travelling in France with Clive Bell in the 1950s and '60s.

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