262 - TOYEN (ill. Marie Cermínová, known as), IVSIC Radovan. TIR. A series of twelve drawings, 1939–1940. Paris, Maintenant, 1973. Oblong folio (45.5 x 34 cm), in a cardboard slipcase with a smooth turquoise sheepskin spine and an outer case designed and decorated by Toyen. A luxurious reprint of twelve large drawings by Toyen first published in Prague in 1946. R. Ivsic’s Lettrist poem is printed in glossy black letters and in color on a triptych of matte black paper.

TOYEN (ill. Marie Cermínová, known as), IVSIC Radovan. TIR. A series of twelve drawings, 1939–1940. Paris, Maintenant, 1973. Oblong folio (45.5 x 34 cm), in a cardboard slipcase with a smooth turquoise sheepskin spine and an outer case designed and decorated by Toyen. A luxurious reprint of twelve large drawings by Toyen first published in Prague in 1946. R. Ivsic’s Lettrist poem is printed in glossy black letters and in color on a triptych of matte black paper. Partially original edition printed in a run of 595 numbered copies. One of 500 on Rives vellum. A friendly gift from Radovan Ivsic and Toyen to Jacques Guignard, chief curator of the Arsenal Library. Radovan Ivšić (1921–2009) was a Croatian surrealist poet and playwright. After the dissolution of the Surrealist movement in 1969, he founded Éditions Maintenant with a few friends, including Toyen, Georges Goldfayn, and Annie Le Brun. The Surrealist poet and literary critic Annie Le Brun was his second wife. The green lettering is partially oxidized (see photos). Experts: Loup Axmann and Jean-Luc Boisseau