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the front cover of a book with a black and white image of the title of a poeman open book with a black and white image of a clock on itan old black and white photo of a naked man in underweara black and white photo of an old book with a number on it
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171 - PÉRET (Benjamin) and Louis ARAGON.
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Estimate €4,000 - €5,000
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PÉRET (Benjamin) and Louis ARAGON. 1929. First half of the year. January. February. March. April. May. June. – Second half of the year. July. August. September. October. November. December. Place and date of publication unknown [Brussels, Published at the expense of the editors of the Belgian magazine *Variétés*, 1929]. Quarto, paperback, untrimmed. First edition illustrated with four original erotic photographs by Man Ray, inserted as separate plates and mounted onto the pages. Kiki de Montparnasse’s involvement in this work has been mentioned. Founded in 1928 by Paul-Gustave Van Hecke and E. L. T. Mesens, the journal *Variétés* was one of Europe’s leading modern art journals, open to Surrealism, experimental photography, cinema and the decorative arts. It brought together major figures such as Benjamin Peret and Louis Aragon, as well as René Magritte, Max Ernst, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy. One of 160 copies printed at Montval. A very rare copy of this booklet produced for Paul-Gustave Van Hecke’s Belgian magazine *Variétés*, almost the entire print run of which was seized and destroyed by French customs. The first page is blank and slightly sun-faded.
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About the sale Eros & Thanatos – Selected extracts from the L-D S library
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Auction time 10/07/2026 at 2:00 PM
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