
Max Ernst
La Ballade du soldat (The Ballad of the Soldier) (S. & L. 218)
A special edition hors commerce print by Max Ernst from La Ballade du Soldat, featuring texts by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. This work from the special H.C. edition demonstrates Ernst's surrealist printmaking mastery.
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- All signed and numbered 'H.C. IV/XIX' in pencil, from the special edition (one of 19 hors commerce sets on this paper, there were also 79 in Arabic numerals, and an edition of 749 on Arches), published by Pierre Chave, Vence, lacking the accompanying book with texts by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, all unframed.
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- Auction House · Phillips
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Evening & Day Editions
June 14, 2021
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