[90], [8] pp. 9 illustrations by Micheline Catty. 7½x5½, printed wrappers. With a 90 minute audio cassette and a large, signed, folding dry-point illustration by Catty, housed in a marbled paper clamshell box, gilt lettered morocco spine label. No. 40 of 75 copies on Arches paper.
Luca, born in Bucharest, traveled frequently to Paris, where he was introduced to the Surrealist circles. During the short pre-Communist period of Romanian independence, he founded a Surrealist artists group, together with Gellu Naum, Paul Pun, Virgil Teodorescu and Dolfi Trost. His first publications, including poems in French followed. He was the inventor of cubomania and, with Dolfi Trost, the author of the statement "Dialetic of Dialectic" in 1945. Harassed in Romania and caught while trying to flee the country, the self-called étran-juif ("StranJew") left Romania in 1952, and moved to Paris. There he worked among others with Jean Arp, Paul Celan, François Di Dio and Max Ernst, producing numerous collages, drawings, objects and text-installations. In 1994, he was expelled from his apartment, officially for hygiene reasons. Luca, who had spent forty years in France without papers, could not cope. On February 9, at the age of 80, he committed suicide by jumping into the Seine.