Alexandra Exter

(1882 - 1949)

Lydia Cabrera

Arere Mareken

Mexico City: Edicion Facsimilar, 1999

322 x 255 mm. 20 +38 pages.

Edition: unknown.

Facsimile of a manuscript. In 1933, when the art gallery Myrbor in Paris organized an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts, Alexandra Exter chose the poem Arere Marika by the Cuban writer Lydia Cabrera to work into a manuscript with illustrations in tropical colors. After the exhibition the manuscript stayed for 30 years in the closet of the writer. This is the first publication of the manuscript.

References:

Chauvelin 2003, p. 368