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SURREALISM. Breton, André; Duchamp, Marcel; et al. First Papers of Surrealism. Exhibition catalogue for the show held at the Reid Mansion in NYC October 14-November 7, 1942. Reproductions by Ernst, Motherwell, and others; "hanging" by Breton and Duchamp. 4to, photo-pictorial wrappers by Duchamp, bright and clean. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, The Museum of Modern Art. New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, 1942
with three other notable surrealist items. Dalí, Salvador. Declaration of the Independence of the Imagination and Rights of Man to His Own Madness. Tall single folding folio sheet, folds, some separation and color loss at folds. Dalí's printed protest against the decision of the Committee of the World's Fair, forbidding him to place outside of the building a replica of the Venus of Boticelli whose head had been replaced by that of a fish. [Np, 1939] Barr, Alfred. Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism. Illustrated. New York: MoMA, 1936. With a laid in note by Barr to Wheeler: "Sorry, just no time, or eyes for the present. Anyway, I hate the word creativity." Breton, André. Yves Tanguy. Illustrated. Bookplates of Wheeler and Glenway Wescott. Number 51 of 1200 copies and with a mounted printed card by the Tanguys announcing the indefinite ending of their handmade Christmas cards. Related clippings laid in and the Tanguy/Day Sage Wadsworth Atheneum exhibition booklet (1954) mounted to rear pastedown. New York, (1946).
