Man Ray, Leonor Fini, André Masson, Enrico Baj and other artists
Variations sur l’imaginaire
Paris: Club du Livre, 1972. Edited by Philippe Lebaud; binding by Jacques Ebrard.
A multi-artist livre d’artiste bringing together text and twenty color lithographs. This is the hors-commerce copy numbered 0, outside the edition of 190. Swann records each lithograph as signed by its artist and each accompanying essay as signed by its author.
The original folio is bound in inlaid, gilt full calf by Jacques Ebrard and housed in its matching clamshell box. The work is offered intact as a single portfolio-volume, not as separate prints. The main photograph shows the Man Ray lithograph.
Edition and contents
Date: 1972
Illustrations: 20 color lithographs with accompanying text
Contributors include: Man Ray, Leonor Fini, André Masson and Enrico Baj
Limitation: Hors-commerce set, justification numbered 0; aside from the edition of 190
Signatures: Each print by its artist and each accompanying essay by its author, as recorded by Swann
Page size: 14⅝ × 11 in. (37.1 × 27.9 cm.)
Binding: Jacques Ebrard; original inlaid gilt full calf with matching clamshell box; full margins, bound as issued
Provenance
Collection of Neil Zukerman and CFM Gallery, New York; by descent to a private New York collection; Swann Galleries, 19th & 20th Century Art, September 17, 2026, lot 168. Subsequently acquired for Breething Books.
Condition
Swann catalogued the text and twenty lithographs as complete, with full margins, bound as issued and retaining the matching box. A detailed current condition report and collation will be confirmed before purchase. The photographs shown are the auction-source photographs of this copy; they illustrate selected lithographs rather than every page or the binding.
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