Max Ernst. - Lot 170

Lot n° 170
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Max Ernst. - Lot 170
Max Ernst. Écritures avec cent vingt illustrations extraites de l'oeuvre de l'auteur. Paris, Le Point Cardinal, 1970. Fort in-8: paperback, illustrated front cover, burgundy cloth jacket, brown half-snake skin case, smooth spine (publisher's slipcase executed by Leroux). First edition. Unnumbered copy of the first edition complete with the filled cover with original lithograph and engraved frontispiece, artist's proof signed by Max Ernst. This engraving was only included in the first hundred copies. Copy of René Bertelé, justified by the publisher, Jean Hugues, with an autograph signed letter on the title page: et avec les plus affectueuses pensées de l'auteur [deux petits dessins] Max Ernst Perfect copy. An original gouache by Max Ernst, a cover design not retained, with an autograph signed letter to René Bertelé is enclosed. Large painting in red on several glued papers (in all 23,5 x 40 cm: the composition alone by Max Ernst measuring 20,6 x 30,2 cm). With a sheet of tracing paper bearing the indications of colours and the drawn mark of the publisher. The lithograph finally executed for the cover of the luxury copies is of a different design and printed in blue.
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