[MAX ERNST]. - Lot 113

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[MAX ERNST]. - Lot 113
[MAX ERNST]. The Copley Galleries. At Eye Level. Paramyths. Max Ernst, 30 years of his work. A survey. Beverly Hills, William N. Copley, 1949. In-8, Bradel blue half-toile, illustrated plates (publisher's binding). First edition: limited edition of 513 copies (#210). Famous catalogue including the first edition of Paramyths, a suite of eight poems illustrated with eight collages. "This illustrated work for which the painter composed both the poems and the collages undoubtedly serves as the single best example of Ernst's combined talent as verbal and graphic artist" (Renée Riese Hubert). Autograph signed on the title: To Peggy Guggenheim affectionately Max Touchante provenance: after being interned at the Camp des Milles, Max Ernst managed to leave France in 1941 in the company of Peggy Guggenheim, whom he married a year later. Their union was not to last. Peggy Guggenheim signed on the flyleaf. (Riese Hubert, Surrealism and the Book, p. 108.)
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