Auction on
07 November 2019 - 14:00 (CET) -
Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Une vague de rêves ("A wave of dreams") is not only a definition of the Surrealist movement. The copy from the library of Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn, to be sold by Pierre Bergé & Associés, illustrates this invitation to dreams and freedom.
Louis Aragon (1897-1982), Une vague de rêves (A wave of dreams), 1924, first edition of the Commerce review separate issue, with an autograph envoi to Pierre Mac Orlan, in-4o; black half-morocco binding with raised bands, each side covered with an original silver halide photograph, with gilt and mosaic decoration by Paul Bonet, 1938. Estimate: €40,000/50,000.
Louis Aragon (1897-1982), Une vague de rêves (A wave of dreams), 1924, first edition of the Commerce review separate issue, with an autograph envoi to Pierre Mac Orlan, in-4o; black half-morocco binding with raised bands, each side covered with an original silver halide photograph, with gilt and mosaic decoration by Paul Bonet, 1938. Estimate: €40,000/50,000.
From cupped mains emerges first a head, then an eruption of coils that join to form a face haloed with stars: a sublimation of the painful process of giving birth. The binding created by Paul Bonet makes poetic allusion to the lyrical text by Aragon. These thirty-odd pages make up the…
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