Max Ernst, Composition (Spies/Leppien 222), Histoire Naturelle, Lithograph

Condition: Pre-Owned

Collotype from frottage on vlin paper.

Paper size: 12.75 x 19.625 inches.

Excellent condition.

Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued.

Notes: From the album, Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle, 1972.

Published and printed by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1972.

Excerpted from the album (translated from German), The first edition of the Histoire Naturelle appeared in 1926 by ditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris, in an edition of 306 examples.

Hans Arp wrote the introduction.

This new edition appeared in 1972.

The German edition contains 350 examples, of which 111 examples contain an original lithograph in three colors signed and numbered by the artist, which was printed by Pierre Chave in Vence, France.

The preferred edition is numbered from 1-111, the normal edition of 112-350.

Some roman numbered copies also contain the original lithograph and are not intended for trade.

For the new printing, the dimensions of the boards increased by one centimeter.

Instead of the Roman numbering Arabic numbering was used. Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart.

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