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Tom Haartsen
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On November 1952, 'Het Uitzicht van de Duif' was presented in the Amsterdam gallery Le Canard , a loose-leaf edition of a long three-part poem from 1951 by Jan G. Elburg (1919-1992), ïllustrated with nine color woodcuts, summer 1952, by Constant (1920-2005). The large-format edition was published in a limited edition of 129 numbered and signed copies. Four of these - 'hors commerce' numbered from I t/m IV - were intended as personal copies for Constant, Jan Elburg, the Le Canard gallery and the printer G.A.Verwey. The temaining 125 were for sale.