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Dons des féminines
Artist: Valentine Penrose (French, 1898-1978)
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish (active France), 1881-1973)
Publisher: Librairie "Les pas perdus," Paris, 1951 (Valentine Penrose & Marcel Zerbib)
Printer: André Tournon et Cie., Paris, 1951
Author: Valentine Penrose (French, 1898-1978)
Date: 1951
Dimensions:
Book: H: 1 5/16 in. (33 mm); W: 10 1/16 in. (256 mm); Depth: 7/16 in. (11 mm).
Page: H: 13 in. (330 mm); W: 10 in. (254 mm).
Sheet: H: 12 3/4 in. (324 mm); W: 10 in. (254 mm).
Image: H: 8 1/2 in. (216 mm); W: 6 1/2 in. (165 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 2 impressions of an etching from the cancelled plate in black on watermarked Arches wove paper.
Reproductions: 46 line block reproductions of Penrose's collages assembled primarily from etched 19th century magazine and newspaper images, incl. 26 full-page collages.
Text: letterpress.
Paper: Alfa cream wove paper.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss in honor of Barbara K. Sutherland
Object number: 1984.902
Label Text:Valentine Penrose was the first wife of Roland Penrose, who is known chiefly as a champion of surrealism and as a writer about surrealist art. This book is comprised of collages (recalling those of Max Ernst) and "automatic" text by Valentine, who created a sort feminine phantasmagoria, it was probably Eluard (who knew both Penrose and Picasso ) who was instrumental in getting Picasso to create an etching for this book. Picasso's print Le Couple shows two women on a bed, entwined in an embrace.
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