Jun 13, 2002 - Sale 1939

Sale 1939 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 1,955
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
BRETON, ANDRÉ; and DUCHAMP, MARCEL. Le Surrealisme en 1947. 5 lithographed plates by Brauner, Ernst, Herold, Lam, and Miro (his first color lithograph, Cramer 11); 5 etched plates by Bellmer, Jean, Maria, Tanguy, and Tanning; 2 woodcut plates by Arp; and 12 black-and-white lithographed plates by Calder, Donati, Tanguy, Toyen, and others. 4to, original photographic wrappers by Rémy Duval reproducing Duchamp's famous breast "Prière de Toucher," spine ends frayed; contents slightly separating from spine; original lettered glassine dust jacket, chipped at edges and spine. Paris: Pierre à Feu, 1947

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This copy, numbered 950, is the last of 950 numbered copies after the signed edition. This is the famous catalogue to mark the retrospective Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme organized by Breton and Duchamp for artists who led the movement in Paris before the war.<