Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ARTISTS IN EXILE, INCLUDING MAX ERNST, ANDRÉ BRETON, AND YVES TANGUY (ARTISTS--SURREALISTS.) Portion of catalogue for exhibition entitled "Artists in Exile" held at Pierre Matisse Gallery beginning March 3, 1942, Signed by 13 of the participating artists and Pierre Matisse, on notes page to left of group portrait showing participating artists. A dated note at lower edge of signed page indicates that the catalogue was signed for American journalist and anti-Nazi activist Varian Fry and his wife, in unknown hand. 9x18 inches, unfolded presenting three pages mounted to board trimmed to size; slight fading to signatures by Chagall and Breton and Ernst and Tchelitchew and Ozenfant, staple holes at vertical fold, faint soiling at right edge. [New York: Pierre Matisse, 1942]; inscriptions: New York, 3 March 1942

Additional Details

Marc Chagall • Fernand Léger ("FLeger") • Ossip Zadkine ("O. Zadkine") • Kurt Seligmann ("K Seligmann") • André Breton • Max Ernst • André Masson • Jacques Lipchitz ("Lipchitz") • Piet Mondrian • Amédée Ozenfant ("A. Ozenfant") • Roberto Matta ("RSA[?] Matta") • Pavel Tchelitchew (P. Tchelitchew") • Yves Tanguy • Pierre Matisse.