Oct 12, 2006 - Sale 2088

Sale 2088 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
RARE PUBLICATION (DADA.) Tzara, Tristan; and Arp, Jean (Hans). Vingt-Cinq Poèmes, 10 woodcuts by Arp (1 repeated). 8vo, original cardboard wrappers with cover label containing another woodcut, semi-circular stain to lower outer corner, larger but faint dampstain to rear cover, few other small stains, some rubbing to spine ends, short clean tear to lower rear cover; contents loose from binding, scattered foxing throughout, offsetting on title-page, binding staples rusted; contemporary owner's name and date on cover verso. Zurich: Collection Dada, (1918)

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extremely scarce dada publication and notoriously fragile. An important document by two of its most prominent founders. [Arp's] "free form is expressive of the automatic quality valued by the Dadaists"--The Artist and the Book, 2.