GEORGES HUGNET
GEORGES HUGNET La Septième face du dé -- The Die's Seventh Face . Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1936. Folio (290 x 210 mm). Printed in green on blue paper. 19 black and white photo-collages (of 20: apparently number 7 was never bound-in), some with color (edges lightly faded). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ORIGINAL COLLAGE BY HUGNET, signed ("GH") and dated June 1936, bound-in as frontispiece. Publisher's printed prospectus laid-in. Original pale-green card covers, DESIGNED BY MARCEL DUCHAMP sewn in Japanese style with yellow thread (light wear, back cover lightly faded); cloth folding case. Provenance : Georges Hugnet (presentation inscription to:) -- André Breton (sold, Calmels Cohen, 7-9 April 2003, lot 650). ANDRé BRETON'S COPY. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE. One of 24 lettered copies on blue paper signed by Hugnet and Duchamp, and with an original signed collage. A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT SURREALIST WORK, INSCRIBED BY HUGNET TO ANDRé BRETON SURREALISM'S CENTRAL FIGURE: "À André Breton au monde merveilleux qu'il habite ou vivent ses poëmes et leurs ombres diamentifères très affectueusement Georges Hugnet 27 Juin 1936" ["to André Breton to the marvelous world he inhabits, where dwell his poems and their shimmering shadows, very fondly Georges Hugnet 27 June 1936"]. Hugnet and Breton came to know each other in 1932 after the publication of Hugnet's incisive essays on Dadaism in Cahiers d'art . Though their relationship was soured by an amorous rivalry, this inscription dates to a moment of "high enthusiasm" during the very successful 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London (11 June - 4 July) organized by Hugnet, Breton, Eluard and Man Ray in collaboration with Roland Penrose and other British champions ( Associations ). Man Ray photographed the Duchamp readymade ('Why Not Sneeze, Rrose Sélavy') reproduced on the Duchamp-designed covers. This copy lettered "F". 101 Books , pp.92-3; Associations , pp.68-9.
GEORGES HUGNET
GEORGES HUGNET La Septième face du dé -- The Die's Seventh Face . Paris: Jeanne Bucher, 1936. Folio (290 x 210 mm). Printed in green on blue paper. 19 black and white photo-collages (of 20: apparently number 7 was never bound-in), some with color (edges lightly faded). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ORIGINAL COLLAGE BY HUGNET, signed ("GH") and dated June 1936, bound-in as frontispiece. Publisher's printed prospectus laid-in. Original pale-green card covers, DESIGNED BY MARCEL DUCHAMP sewn in Japanese style with yellow thread (light wear, back cover lightly faded); cloth folding case. Provenance : Georges Hugnet (presentation inscription to:) -- André Breton (sold, Calmels Cohen, 7-9 April 2003, lot 650). ANDRé BRETON'S COPY. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE. One of 24 lettered copies on blue paper signed by Hugnet and Duchamp, and with an original signed collage. A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT SURREALIST WORK, INSCRIBED BY HUGNET TO ANDRé BRETON SURREALISM'S CENTRAL FIGURE: "À André Breton au monde merveilleux qu'il habite ou vivent ses poëmes et leurs ombres diamentifères très affectueusement Georges Hugnet 27 Juin 1936" ["to André Breton to the marvelous world he inhabits, where dwell his poems and their shimmering shadows, very fondly Georges Hugnet 27 June 1936"]. Hugnet and Breton came to know each other in 1932 after the publication of Hugnet's incisive essays on Dadaism in Cahiers d'art . Though their relationship was soured by an amorous rivalry, this inscription dates to a moment of "high enthusiasm" during the very successful 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London (11 June - 4 July) organized by Hugnet, Breton, Eluard and Man Ray in collaboration with Roland Penrose and other British champions ( Associations ). Man Ray photographed the Duchamp readymade ('Why Not Sneeze, Rrose Sélavy') reproduced on the Duchamp-designed covers. This copy lettered "F". 101 Books , pp.92-3; Associations , pp.68-9.
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