L'art océanien: sa présence.

Paris: APAM, 1951. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 27 cm; 138 pages, illustrated with maps and half-tone illustrations. Lithographed wrapper by Roger Falck. Corners and extremities slightly worn. Spine reinforced with strong Japanese paper. Preserved in custom-built clamshell case. Owner's inscription of the late Australian artist Helen Lempriere, who endowed the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award. Collection Le Musée vivant, #38.

Seminal study of Oceanic art, with texts taken from surrealist poets Tristan Tzara and Guillaume Apollinaire, as well as highly analytic essays on Oceanic symbolism by Cheikh Anta Diop, Kunz Dittmer, Henri Lehmann, and others, edited by Madeleine Rousseau, with an introduction by Paul Rivet.