Wolfgang PAALEN

First edition, one of 37 numbered copies, ours one of a few hors commerce copies for collaborators and friends, signed by Man Ray on the justification. 15 photographs on watermarked vélin Montgolfier mounted on guards, each bearing Man Ray’s printed studio stamp (“Épreuve originale atelier Man Ray Paris”). The copy exceptionally contains the original subscription prospectus and an invitation to the book launch exhibition opening night organised by Simone Loliée.

 

Publisher’s binding by the renowned bookbinder Mercher, bearing his signature in the negative of the photographic paper on each endpaper and pastedown, flat black shagreen spine, title, author and date stamped in gilt lengthwise...

Original photograph taken at the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris in 1938, contemporary silver halide printOriginal photograph, contemporary silver halide print, taken at the International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris in 1938. “AGIP – Reportages photographiques” “AGIP – Photographic Reports” stamp on the verso.
The image depicts a mannequin dressed by the artist Wolfgang Paalen, presented in the “surrealist street” of the exhibition, amongst the 15 other “being-objects” decorated by Marcel Duchamp, Seligmann, Max Ernst, Joan Miró,
Augustín Espinoza, Sonia Mossé, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Maurice...