Max Ernst.

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Max Ernst.
A Week of Kindness or The Seven Capital Elements. Novel. Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934. 5 volumes in-4: paperback, covers of different coloured papers, publisher's cardboard slipcase with title-piece on spine and illustration mounted on first cover. First edition. Limited edition 816 copies; one of 800 on Navarre paper (no. 391). The third of Max Ernst's picture novels, with 182 full-page collages reproduced in phototypesetting. "One of the characteristics of Max Ernst's collages is the extreme care and attention to detail with which they are produced. The aim is to conceal all traces of cut-outs in order to give the illusion of continuity in the image. [...] Thus reproduction, instead of being considered as a necessarily degraded avatar of the original, appears on the contrary in Max Ernst's collages as the culmination of the creative process, its ideal expression: by completing the erasure of traces, it allows for the realization of the 'perfect crime'" (Antoine Coron). (Antoine Coron). Autograph letter signed on the title page: to Jean-Claude Fourneau with the deepest sympathy of Max Ernst January 1950 Painter, Jean-Claude Fourneau (1907-1981) appears in the photograph of the surrealist group gathered at the café on the place Blanche in 1953. André Breton had chosen one of his paintings to illustrate the Surrealist Almanac that was to be published by the American magazine Flair in 1953 (an unfinished project). The publisher's slipcase is a little rubbed and the title page is faded. The book's prospectus is enclosed. (Coron, De Goya à Max Ernst, nº 47: "The most important and beautiful of Max Ernst's novel-collages.")
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