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GEORGES HUGNET (1906-1974)
Huit Jours à Trébaumec. A Surrealist masterpiece beautifully illustrated with 82 rich reproductions of Hugnet's collages. Small folio, printed pink wrappers; glassine dust jacket; with the gray slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 78 OF 102 COPIES SIGNED BY HUGNET AND HENRI MERCHER.
Paris: les Ateliers Coet, 1969. Published: Zabriskie Gallery, Zabriskie Fifty Years, 2004, page 171 (illustrated).
An exhibition of Georges Hugnet entitled "Georges Hughnet: Surrealist Collages" was held at Zabriskie Gallery, New York, April 24-June 1, 1984.
This clever title is packaged as a Guide Rose Micheline, a parody of the popular Baedeker, Guide Michelin Rouge. In Hugnet's satire, it is not a Michelin man, but a Michelin woman serving as a tour guide leading us through the fictional "Trébaumec" or as Hugnet called it, "The little lost town in Brittany, paradise regained."
