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Sale 2683 - Lot 280

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Breton, André (1896-1966) & illus. Roberto Matta (1911-2002)
Arcane 17.

New York: Brentano's, 1944.

First edition, limited issue, octavo; letter 'U' of 25 lettered copies on Umbria paper with an original etched aquatint frontispiece signed and numbered "21/25" by Matta; signed by Breton in blue ink on the limitation page; illustrated with four major arcana tarot cards in color by Matta, each mounted on cream paper; bound in the publisher's printed wrappers, the gatherings mostly unopened (wrapper lightly soiled with some minor chips at edges, wrapper partially detached at front); 9 x 6 1/4 in.

[Together with] Frédéric Boutet's Tableau de l'Au-Dela. Paris: Gallimard, 1927. Suite of 14 drypoint etchings in publisher's limp paper, protected by the original glassine wrapper; 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.
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