Lot 60: BRETON, ANDRÉ; and DUCHAMP, MARCEL. Le Surrealisme en 1947. 5 lithographed plates by Brauner, Ernst, Herold, Lam, and Miró (his first color

Name: BRETON, ANDRÉ; and DUCHAMP, MARCEL. Le Surrealisme en 1947. 5 lithographed plates by Brauner, Ernst, Herold, Lam, and Miró (his first color
Brand: Swann Auction Galleries
SKU: b4b90im155

Est: $2,000 USD - $3,000 USDSold:

Swann Auction GalleriesNew York, NY, USMay 19, 2005

Item Overview

Description

BRETON, ANDRÉ; and DUCHAMP, MARCEL. Le Surrealisme en 1947. 5 lithographed plates by Brauner, Ernst, Herold, Lam, and Miró (his first color lithograph, Cramer 11); 5 etched plates by Bellmer, Jean, Maria, Tanguy, and Tanning; 2 woodcut plates by Arp; and 12 black-and-white lithographed plates by Calder, Donati, Tanguy, Toyen, and others. 4to, original photographic wrappers by Rémy Duval reproducing Duchamp's famous breast "Prière de Toucher;" original lettered glassine dust jacket, crisp. Paris: Pierre à Feu, 1947

Artist or Maker

Ernst Brauner

Notes

a beautiful copy. one of 950 numbered examples after the signed edition. This is the famous catalogue to mark the retrospective Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme organized by Breton and Duchamp for artists who led the movement in Paris before the war.

Auction Details

ART & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

Swann Auction Galleries

May 19, 2005, 12:00 AM EST

104 East 25th Street, New York, NY, 10010, US

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