73 - Max ERNST. Dream of a Little Girl Who Wanted to Join the Carmelite Order.

Max ERNST. Dream of a Little Girl Who Wanted to Join the Carmelite Order. Paris, Éditions du Carrefour, 1930. In-4, paperback, illustrated cover. First edition of this beautiful album of 78 collages by Max Ernst. One of 40 copies on Pannekoek Holland paper (no. 33), the second paper type after the 20 copies on Japanese paper. Spine and cover margins slightly browned, with small tears. Included is a signed autograph card sent by Dorothea Tanning to Marcel Jean and his wife on May 17, 1976. (Max Ernst had died two weeks earlier, on April 1, 1976.) “Dear friends, thank you very much for your sympathy, which will help me. Yours, Dorothea.”