art books

Louis Broder was a Swiss national who became popular whilst working in France as a publisher for pioneering artist’s books. He published original artworks by famous artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Arp, Andre Masson and Georges Braque in small print runs which makes them harder to find hence the high values achieved at auction. He also published suites of original plates. The difference between the suites and the books is that the books have text so are not classed as suites. The suite plates and the book plates are the same size. The print run of the suites is usually smaller than the published book edition and 50 is an average. He combined these original artworks with modern letterpress and chants from famous poets within his books which were published during the 1950’s to the 1970’s.