Archives
Books, manuscripts, photographs, and rare objects catalogued by the bookshop over the years. An archive for bibliophiles and connoisseurs of written heritage.
2 works
Max Ernst
Sept Microbes vus à travers un tempérament
Paris, Les Editions Cercle des Arts, (June 30) 1953.Max Ernst was living in Paris when the Éditions des Cahiers du Cercle d'Art published the brief texts of Sept microbes, illustrated by the author himself. He was working in an studio on the impasse Ronsin rented from the painter William Copley, across from Brancusi's studio, at a time when Brancusi was close to death.Christie's,…Sold
Max Ernst
Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux
Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.Of all the techniques Max Ernst employed, collage is arguably the one owing as much to Dada as to Surrealism. Rather than venture uncertain hypotheses about the meaning the author intended for these “elements” and their “examples” — in what is probably the most protean work of Surrealism — one should simply surrender to the…Sold
Showing 2 results out of 2.
