Portfolio André Masson, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy and others

Paul Eluard, Solidarité, Guy Levis Mano, 1938

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Portfolio
André Masson, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy and others
Paul Eluard, Solidarité, Guy Levis Mano, 1938
etchings, engravings and aquatints, 1938, on Montval laid paper, title, poem, justification and the complete set of seven, the justification numbered '91' in pink crayon, from the edition of 150 (there were also a few hors commerce copies), the poem signed by Eluard, the English version signed by the translator Brian Coffey, each plate signed in pencil by the artist, numbered 91/150, with margins, the poem with two foxmarks in the lower margin, otherwise generally in very good condition, bound slightly later in red polished calf with irregularly-shaped multi-colour morocco in-lays, flat spine lettered in gilt with artist's names, black reversed goatskin liners, gilt edges, signed by Leroux, half red polished calf and black laminate chemise lined with black reversed goatskin, within black laminate slipcase and modern half linen box(book)
overall 230 x 170mm.

Lot Essay

Paul Eluard's poem was first published in l'Humanité, the French Communist Party newspaper in 1936. It combined art and political engagement in a moving denunciation of the Spanish Civil War and would inspire Picasso's series Sueno y mentira de Franco produced early in 1937. It was Eluard who had introduced Picasso to Dora Maar in 1936, and thus fitting that the artist would choose her portrait to illustrate his friend's poem.

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