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Max ERNST. A Week of Kindness, or The Seven Capital Elements…
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Max ERNST. A Week of Kindness, or The Seven Capital Elements…
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €2,500
Voluntary lot
Description
Max ERNST. A Week of Kindness, or The Seven Capital Elements. Novel. Paris, Jeanne Bucher, 1934. 5 quarto volumes, paperback, covers in different coloured paper, publisher’s cardboard slipcase with title label on the spine and an illustration mounted on the front cover, modern blue cloth slipcase.
First edition.
Limited edition of 816 copies: one of the 800 printed on Navarre paper (no. 583, on a paper tab covering certain different numbers).
The third of Max Ernst’s picture novels, featuring 182 full-page phototyped collages.
“One of the characteristics of Max Ernst’s collages is the extreme care and meticulousness with which they are created. The aim is, in fact, to conceal any trace of cutting so as to create the illusion of continuity within the image. […] Thus, rather than being regarded as an inevitably inferior version of the original, the reproduction appears, in Max Ernst’s collages, as the culmination of the creative process, its ideal expression: by completely erasing all traces, it enables the ‘perfect crime’ to be realised” (Antoine Coron).
Three booklets have uniformly faded spines.
(Coron, From Goya to Max Ernst, no. 47: “The most important and most beautiful of Max Ernst’s collage-novels.”)
See original version (French)
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About the sale
Henri Michaux, the Sven Pitsey collection
Auction location
Auction time
10/29/2026 at 2:00 PM
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