ELUARD, Paul, and Max ERNST. Les Malheurs des immortels. Paris: Editions de la Revue Fontaine. [1945.]
8vo. Original beige wrappers with fold-over flaps; black title lettering in black; pp. unpaginated; pages lightly toned with minimal spotting to front end paper; otherwise very good.
Signed by both Eluard and Ernst and intriguingly inscribed by Eluard (in French) 'To Mr and Mrs Edwin Sisler, this book, of which I only did a third', possibly insinuating the presence of a third collaborator. Second Edition (this work numbered 558 of the run of 1860).
A landmark of Surrealism and the first collaboration between two of the movement’s most essential and revered contributors. Combining Ernst’s images with Eluard’s poetry, Les Malheurs Des Immortels explores the relationship between painting and poetry, ‘the role of the image as an icon of psychic processes and the ambivalent status of the scopic function, or the reversibility of blindness and revelation’.
SKU: 2120864
ELUARD, Paul, and Max ERNST. Les Malheurs des immortels. Paris: Editions de la Revue Fontaine. [1945.]
8vo. Original beige wrappers with fold-over flaps; black title lettering in black; pp. unpaginated; pages lightly toned with minimal spotting to front end paper; otherwise very good.
Signed by both Eluard and Ernst and intriguingly inscribed by Eluard (in French) 'To Mr and Mrs Edwin Sisler, this book, of which I only did a third', possibly insinuating the presence of a third collaborator. Second Edition (this work numbered 558 of the run of 1860).
A landmark of Surrealism and the first collaboration between two of the movement’s most essential and revered contributors. Combining Ernst’s images with Eluard’s poetry, Les Malheurs Des Immortels explores the relationship between painting and poetry, ‘the role of the image as an icon of psychic processes and the ambivalent status of the scopic function, or the reversibility of blindness and revelation’.
SKU: 2120864
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