La Brebis Galante (La collection GBMZ, 1)
Artist: Max Ernst (French, 1891-1976)
Publisher: Les éditions premières, Paris, 1949
Printer: etchings: Georges Visat, [Paris] (under the direction of the artist)
text: Viglino, Bourg-la-Reine
Author: Benjamin Péret (French, 1899-1959)
Date: 1949
Dimensions:
box: 11 x 8 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (280 x 222 x 35mm)
book: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (242 x 190mm)
page: 9 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. (238 x 190mm)
Medium: Original prints: 3 etchings in colors (incl. title page); 15 line block reproductions of collages with added pochoir by the artist
Reproductions: line block reproductions of drawings in colors (initial letters); photolithograph of the title page etching (wrapper)
Text: letterpress (typeface: Bodoni)
Paper: cream Arches wove paper, watermarked
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1979.21
Label Text:Written in 1924, Peret's Surrealist story of LA BREBIS GALANTE is a fairy tale of irrational images based upon free association that launched the author into a flight of digressions and unexpected juxtapositions. Ernst's three etchings include a title page adorned with a mask,a second etching of an ewe, and finally a fusion of ewe and mask. The etchings, like Peret's title, have nothing to do with the contents of the story, a fact which is reinforced by their isolated placement at the beginning of the book before the text. (Derived from Anne Hyde Greet's essay "Max Ernst and the Artist's Book: From Fait Modes to Maximilliana" in Max Ernst, BEYOND SURREALISM, 1986, page 113.)
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