Oct 12, 2006 - Sale 2088

Sale 2088 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 2,082
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
(DADA.) Tzara, Tristan; editor. Dada No, 7: DADAphone. Abstract Schadograph, showing Arp and Serner in the Royal Crocodarium in London; photographic portraits of contributors Aragon, Breton, Soupault, Tzara, Dermée, Eluard, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Arnauld, and Picabia. 8 pages. Folio, self-wrappers with spiral design by Picabia, staples lacking leaving rusted holes, not affecting legibility of text, horizontal fold through entire contents with residual rubbing and creasing to front cover, few small soil marks, contemporary penciled owner's name on front cover. Paris, 1920

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highly scarce penultimate issue of "dada," published in March 1920, at the height of Dada activity in Paris. A tour-de-force of typography and literary creativity. Motherwell/Karpel 66, Ades p. 65, Sanouillet 226.