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251 - Max Ernst - Paul Eluard. *Les malheurs des immortels*. Cologne, Galerie Der Spiegel [1960]. With 21 zinc etchings based on collages by Max Ernst. Original paperback with an illustration mounted on the front cover. - A copy inscribed for Rolf Renker.

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€400 - 600

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32%

Max Ernst - Paul Eluard. *Les malheurs des immortels*. Cologne, Galerie Der Spiegel [1960]. With 21 zinc etchings based on collages by Max Ernst. Original paperback with an illustration mounted on the front cover. - A copy inscribed for Rolf Renker. Auction start time: approx. 3:17 p.m. (schedule subject to change) First German edition. — One of 250 copies on art paper (total print run 335). - With a handwritten dedication and a small drawing, “For Dr. Renker, Max Ernst,” on a flyleaf. - Printed and bound as a block book. - The original edition was published in Paris in the summer of 1922. - “The work [...] is the first example of such an extensive collaboration between Ernst and Éluard that the painter—as demonstrated by Werner Spies—became a co-author of the texts. [...] The illustrations represent Ernst’s transition from Dada to Surrealism” (Lothar Lang). - See also: Max Ernst. *Paramythen*. Poems and Collages. Cologne, Galerie Der Spiegel 1955. Illustrated original paperback. Unnumbered copy, like one of 250 on art paper (total print run 310). Monod 4243. — Lang, Surrealism, p. 18 and Bibliography 25, note. — Spindler 153.9 33.0 × 21.8 cm. [50] pages (block book). - Spine and edges discolored. - 1 page with a vertical crease. English description: Featuring 21 zincographs based on collages by Max Ernst. Original paperback with an illustration mounted on the front cover. - Dedication copy. First German edition. - One of 250 copies on art paper (total print run of 335). - With a handwritten dedication and a small drawing “Für Herrn Dr. Renker Max Ernst” on a flyleaf. - Printed and bound as a block book. - The original edition was published in Paris in the summer of 1922. - “The work [...] is the first example of such an extensive collaboration between Ernst and Eluard that the painter—as demonstrated by Werner Spies—became a co-author of the texts. [...] The illustrations represent Ernst’s transition from Dada to Surrealism” (Lothar Lang). (“This work [...] is the first example of such an extensive collaboration between Ernst and Eluard that the painter—as demonstrated by Werner Spies—became a co-author of the texts. [...] The illustrations represent Ernst’s transition from Dada to Surrealism”). - Additionally: Max Ernst. Paramythen. Poems and Collages. Cologne, Galerie Der Spiegel 1955. Illustrated original paperback. Unnumbered copy, one of 250 printed on art paper (total print run 310). The spine and edges are discolored. - One page has a vertical crease.

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Auction details

Auction 34: Art & Books - Special Catalog: 20th-Century Artist's Books / Renker Collection, Part 2
Saturday, November 21
12:00 PM
86 A Osterbekstraße
22083 Hamburg, Germany

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Christian Hesse Auktionen +49 4 06 94 54 247 mail@hesse-auktionen.de
On Drouot for 4 years avec More than 1,000 lots published

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