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a card with a picture of a person on ita close up of a book with a spiral design on ita red book on a table with a black logo on ita black and white drawing of a picture of a man and a womana drawing of a bird that is sitting in a windowa drawing of a man and a woman standing in a field of applesa drawing of a chair and a bunch of scissors on a tablean open book with a red cover on a white tabletwo red papers with writing on them sitting on a tablea red folder with a green strip on top of ita red book with a green logo on itthe red book has a green logo on ita red book with a blue cover sitting on a tablea sign that says tir on the floor of a building
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262 - TOYEN (illustrated by Marie Cermínová, known as), IVSIC Rado…
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Estimate €800 - €1,200
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TOYEN (illustrated by Marie Cermínová, known as), IVSIC Radovan. TIR. A series of twelve drawings, 1939–1940. Paris, Maintenant, 1973. Oblong folio (45.5 x 34 cm), in a cardboard slipcase with a smooth turquoise sheepskin spine and an outer slipcase designed and decorated by Toyen. A luxurious reprint of twelve large drawings by Toyen, first published in Prague in 1946. R. Ivsic’s Lettrist poem is printed in glossy black letters and in colour on a triptych of matt black paper. Partially original edition, printed in a run of 595 numbered copies. One of the 500 printed on Rives vellum. A friendly gift from Radovan Ivsic and Toyen to Jacques Guignard, chief curator of the Arsenal Library. Radovan Ivšić (1921–2009) was a Croatian surrealist poet and playwright. Following the dissolution of the Surrealist movement in 1969, he founded Éditions Maintenant with a number of friends, including Toyen, Georges Goldfayn and Annie Le Brun. The Surrealist poet and literary critic Annie Le Brun was his second wife. The green lettering is partially oxidised (see photos). Experts: Loup Axmann and Jean-Luc Boisseau
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About the sale Once upon a time – Antique Dolls and Toys, Vintage Fashion, Antique Books
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Auction time 11/04/2026 at 2:00 PM
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