Max ERNST & Ernst Guillaume TEMPEL. - Lot 115

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Max ERNST & Ernst Guillaume TEMPEL. - Lot 115
Max ERNST & Ernst Guillaume TEMPEL. 65 Maximiliana or the Illegal Exercise of Astronomy. Writings and etchings by Max Ernst to comment and illustrate the data of Ernst Guillaume Tempel brought to light by Iliazd. Paris, le Degré Quarante et Un, 1964. In-folio in sheets, brown butcher's paper and grey-green auvergne paper endpapers, parchment folder filled on all four sides and illustrated with a black line drawing, grey cloth folder and case decorated on the back with a line drawing (editor's slipcase). Original edition. Limited edition of 75 copies on old japanese paper (#54), signed at the head in pencil by Max Ernst and initialled by the publisher, Iliazd, opposite. 34 original etchings in black and color by Max Ernst, ten of which are double-page. The illustration includes 19 etchings, 7 aquatint and 8 mixing etching and aquatint; they are accompanied by writings and figures of Max Ernst printed in black, pink, red, green, orange and blue. In the catalogue of Rodolfo Molo's collection, Antoine Coron points out that the book - "the most remarkable of the editions illustrated by Max Ernst" - was conceived as an object for exhibition, "where it can be seen in its entirety, something impossible for an ordinary book. To achieve this result, Iliazd printed only the inner face of the thirty leaves which, when folded, form the volume. ...] His ideal vision is not on the table of a library but on the walls of a museum" - a way of underlining how much more faithfully the copies preserved as published, in sheets, respond to the wishes of the publisher. German astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Tempel (1821-1889) discovered many comets. He gave an asteroid he discovered the name 65 Maximiliana in honour of the King of Bavaria, Maximilian II. "Ersnt Guillaume Tempel is with Monluc one of these emblematic figures of the unknown genius, to whose illustration the friendship of the painters was invited. Max Ernst knew Tempel, so the agreement was easy and Maximiliana is undoubtedly t
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