Books and Manuscripts · Lot 23

Aragon, L. La peinture au défi.

Paris, Galerie Goemans, 1930, 32p., 23 monochr. plates, printed in 1020 copies (1000), orig. wr.

ADDED: Idem. Les yeux d'Elsa. Neuchâtel, Éditions de la Baconnière, 1942, 1st ed., 157,(3)p., frontisp., orig. wr.

Lot: 23
Auction: Auction 83, 24-28 November 2025
Section: from DADA to COBRA - WORKS FROM THE LIBRARY of ALDO and HANNIE VAN EYCK
Estimate: €100 – €150
Result: €100
Photos: 2 photos

Condition

Wrappers yellowed along margins; frontwr. w. fold in lower corner; top of spine sl. dam. and joints splitting at top.

Sl. yellowed (backstrip browned).

Notes

Catalogue of the "Exposition de collage", May 1930, featuring works by Arp, Braque, Dali, Duchamp, Ernst, Gris, Miró, Magritte, Man Ray, Picabia, Picasso and Tanguy. Bolliger IV, 104: "Die bedeutendste frühe Arbeit über die Collage".

Les cahiers du Rhône, Série blanche III. Bolliger IV, 105. Copy from the unnumb. printrun (besides 430 numb. copies).