May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SURREALIST EROTICA (CURIOSA.) [Aragon, Louis.] Le Con d'Irène. Frontispiece and 4 erotic engraved plates by André Masson; typography and cover design by Aragon. 4to, publisher's red wrappers lettered in black, spine fragile, gentle creasing but wrappers brighter and cleaner than usually encountered. [Paris: privately printed by Rene Bonnell], 1928
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scarce anonymously printed work of erotica. number 37 on vergé d'arches. Le Con d'Irène chronicles a man's torment when he becomes fixated upon the genitalia of an imaginary woman and is reduced to voyeuristically scoping her erotic encounters and describing various events in brothels and other sexual adventures. While he admitted his authorship in private circles, Aragon never acknowledged it publicly. Dutel II, 1270; Saphire-Cramer 5.