Dec 07, 2001 - Sale 1918

Sale 1918 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 5,980
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
THE DELUXE EDITION, ON VAN GELDER PAPER(MAN RAY.) 1929. By Benjamin Peret and Louis Aragon. With 4 erotic "ode to the seasons" reproductions by Man Ray, image size 6 1/2x4 1/2 inches; and poems by Peret and Aragon. Large 4to, printed self-wrappers, covers chipped; pages oversized and partly uncut. one of 48 copies on hollande van gelder zonen, this being number 28.<><\t>Paris, 1929

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The scarce, suppressed volume featuring Man Ray's highly graphic close-up photographs of sexual activity. It is amusing to reflect upon what criteria the Surrealist artist employed to link each of these remarkable images, which are titled "Spring," "Summer," "Autumn," "Winter," to a particular season.<