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Mougins, Hotel "Vaste Horizon", August 7, 19371 postcard (120 x 160 mm) from the Facteur Cheval's palace in Hauterives, addressed to "Mr. Man Ray, 49 rue Denfert-Rochereau, Paris XIVe", signed by Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Paul, Nusch and Cécile Éluard, - then aged 19.
[the other visuals are given as illustrations of this summer of 1937 and these prints are not for sale.]Un été à la Garoupe: an exceptional account of the summer of '37, in Mougins, where the Eluard and Picasso couple were waiting for the Man Ray- Ady Fidelin couple. It's Monday, July 26, 1937: the departure date for Picasso and Dora Maa, who take their friends on the road to the Côte d'Azur: aboard the imposing Hispano-Suiza driven by Marcel, his personal chauffeur, we find Paul Éluard, his daughter Cécile and his wife, Nusch.
Picasso is coming off a fruitful and historic peruide: he has just completed Guernica, in his studio at 7, rue des Grands-Augustins. For the first time, Picasso painted in the presence of an observer: Dora… Read More

Paris, Édition du carrefour, (December 20) 19291 vol. (185 x 245 mm) unpaginated. Framed long-grain black morocco bradel, gilt title on spine, first board decorated with an X-ray under mica, gilt head, covers preserved, slipcase (binding signed by Loutrel).First edition. Preface by André Breton.146 collages by Max Ernst. One of 900 copies on tinted vellum paper (no. 237).
Max Ernst presents here his first collages, full of hallucinations, far from the Dadaism of his early days, where poetic and humorous creations follow one another. André Breton underlines the value of cuts of which surrealism is capable: to reveal a marvelous and dreamlike world, unreal and illusory.
Stunning binding by Patrick Loutrel, who has inserted an X-ray of a spine and cervical vertebrae on the first cover.
Angular restoration to the leaf of the last plate.
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