Paul ELUARD et Max ERNST.

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Paul ELUARD et Max ERNST.
Les Malheurs des immortels. Paris, Librairie Six, 1922. Small in-4 : grey snakeskin, smooth spine, boards decorated with three figures in white, beige and blue-grey crocodile skin, brown box lining, brown velvet endpapers, gilt edges, cover preserved, folder, case (Leroux, 1985). Original edition printed in small numbers on imitation japan: it is illustrated with 21 full-page collages by Max Ernst. One of the most accomplished surrealist illustrated books, whose poems were composed after the collages, by the painter and the poet, published shortly after Répétitions, which it extends. "Les Malheurs des immortels are the result of the closest collaboration between the two men, each of the texts, conceived after the corresponding collage, being based on the work, by both, of each sentence, even of each word. [...] The poems themselves must be considered as verbal collages, with additions and hidden words, where the loss of the hierarchy of nouns gives a poetic aspect to sentences and aphorisms that could seem banal, descriptive or technical. Combining wonderfully deconstruction and construction, two years before the Manifesto of Surrealism, Les Malheurs des immortels is perhaps the most surrealist of all the works of the movement" (Julien Bogousslavsky) Remarkable decorated binding by Georges Leroux. (Paul Eluard et ses amis peintres, p. 106: "An important collection that marks the closest collaboration that existed between artist and poet."- Bogousslavsky, De Delacroix aux Surréalistes, pp. 262-267.)
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