Paysages Africains: Tchad, Tibesti, Fezzan, Borkou

France: Pierre Tisne, 1945. (Limited, 1st edition). Oversize Paperback. VERY GOOD+. #228 of 1720 copies. Protective glassine cover shows signs of wear around edges. Slight age soil and yellowing to protective cover and rough cut page edges. Interior on high quality art papers. Map of "La Colonne Du Tchad" plus 68 drawings (charcoal, ink and sepia) and water color prints tipped in) by the official painter of the Leclerc column (Philippe de Hauteclocque) - WWII North African campaign from the French Fort Lamy in Chad (December, 1942) to joining Montgomery's 8th army in January 1943 in Tripoli. Text in French. "Les dessins et tableaux de Rene-Jean Clot ont fait revivre devant nos yeux des paysages auxquels je ne pense jamais sans emotion. Ils les ont fait revivre avec force, tels que nous les avons connus et aimes." "Les lignes qui suivent, puisees dans le journal de marche de mon aide de camp, animeront ces toiles et les situeront dans le temps et dans l'espace mieux qu'aucun discours. Elles ne sont pas de la litterature, simplement des notes au jour le jour, brutalement jetees sur le papier. Elles ont les qualites et les defauts d'un document." ("Rene-Jean Clot's drawings and paintings have brought to life landscapes that I never think emotionally without, they have revived them with force, as we have known and loved them." "The lines that follow, taken from my aide-de-camp's diary, will animate these canvases and place them in time and space better than any other speech.They are not literary day by day, brutally written on paper, they have the qualities and defects of a document. ") 9x11x.75"'