246 - Portfolios and Graphic Anthologies - Tristan Tzara. *L’antitête*. I: *Monsieur Aa l’antiphilosophe*. Etchings by Max Ernst. - II: *Miniuts pour géants*. Etchings by Yves Tanguy. - *Le Désespéranto*. Etchings by Joan Miró. Paris, Bordas 1949. Three volumes containing a total of 23 full-sheet color etchings, as well as an additional 23 watercolor etchings presented as suites. Loose sheets and pages in original parchment wrappers, together in the original parchment slipcase.

Portfolios and Graphic Anthologies - Tristan Tzara. *L’antitête*. I: *Monsieur Aa l’antiphilosophe*. Etchings by Max Ernst. - II: *Miniuts pour géants*. Etchings by Yves Tanguy. - *Le Désespéranto*. Etchings by Joan Miró. Paris, Bordas 1949. Three volumes containing a total of 23 full-sheet color etchings, as well as an additional 23 watercolor etchings presented as suites. Loose sheets and pages in original parchment wrappers, together in the original parchment slipcase. Call time: approx. 3:14 p.m. (schedule subject to change) One of 23 copies of the special edition on Dutch Van Gelder handmade paper; each volume includes a watercolor suite of etchings, for which Mirò created seven new etchings (total print run: 200). - The colophons are signed by Tzara and the respective artist. - Tzara’s text was first published in 1933, initially with illustrations by Picasso. This was followed in 1949 by the small-format, three-volume deluxe edition; this is one of the very rare copies featuring the hand-colored suites. - Each volume contains eight etchings by Max Ernst and Joan Miró and seven by Jean Tanguy. - One of the most important and beautiful works of Surrealist book art. - A very fine copy of this extremely rare special edition. - Provenance: Private collection, Stuttgart. - Acquired by Rolf Renker in 1965 at Auction 137, Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg. Documentation Library I, 53 (one of the most expensive books in that auction). - LC 2001 125. - Monod 10787. - Rauch 164. - A&B 298. - Tzara: Harwood 18. - Ernst: Spies/Leppien 27 D. - Mirò: Dupin 53-68 14.5 × 11.5 cm. 172, [4]; 103, [5]; 137, [7] pages, 23 etchings. - Parchment on the spine with small losses. Endpapers in Volumes I and II with smudges. English description: Three volumes containing a total of 23 full-sheet color etchings, as well as an additional 23 watercolor etchings presented as suites. Loose sheets and pages in original parchment wrappers, together in the original parchment slipcase. One of 23 copies of the special edition on Dutch Van Gelder hand-made paper; each volume includes a watercolorized suite of etchings, for which Mirò created seven new etchings (total print run of 200). - The colophons are signed by Tzara and the respective artist. - “This book consists of three petite and exquisite volumes, each containing color etchings and aquatints by a different artist, and notable for its intimate formats, fine materials, and carefully conceived and executed color prints. This is the second edition of Tzara’s *L’Antitête*. The first edition was published in 1933 with an etched frontispiece by Picasso“ (Robert Flynn Johnson, in: LC). - This is one of the very rare copies featuring the hand-colored suites. - Featuring eight etchings each by Max Ernst and Joan Miró, and seven by Jean Tanguy. - One of the most important and beautiful works of Surrealist book art. - A very fine copy of this extremely rare special edition. Provenance: Private Collection, Stuttgart. - Rolf Renker purchased this book in 1965 at Auction 137, Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, as one of the first significant artist’s books in his collection. Parchment spines with minor defects. Endpapers in Volumes I and II show some transfer marks.