May 05, 2009 - Sale 2179

Sale 2179 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BAJ, ENRICO; and PÉRET, BENJAMIN. Dames et Généraux. Additional text by André Breton and an extra title by Marcel Duchamp. 10 signed and numbered etchings and aquatints in color by Baj (three with collage) to illustrate 10 poems by Péret. 325x250mm; 12 5/8x9 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins. 4to, contents loose as issued in printed wrappers; glassine dust jacket; publisher's striped cloth-covered chemise and slipcase with cotton tufts sewn on. Paris: Berggruen, 1964
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number 27 of 125 copies signed by baj and breton. "This book presents ten poems from the 1934 collection De derrière les fagots, selected by Arturo Schwarz, poet and writer on surrealism and a personal friend of Breton, Duchamp, and Péret"--The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy 19.