ARAGON (Louis). Fucking Irene. [Paris: René Bonnel, Pascal Pia], 1928. - In-4, 240 x 190: (2 ff. whites), 85 pp., (3 ff. 2 last whites), printed cover. Garnet half-marroquin with corners, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (contemporary binding). Dutel, 1270 , original edition of this famous text by Louis Aragon published clandestinely in 1928. It is a fragment of a great novel on which the author worked from 1913 to 1927, entitled La Défense de l'infini , which he destroyed in 1927. A masterpiece of erotic literature, Le Con d'Irène was considered by Jean-Jacques Pauvert as "one of the four or five most beautiful poetic texts produced by surrealism. " Edition of 150 numbered copies; one of the 125 on laid Arches to the shape. Unique copy, without the figures of André Masson but enriched with 7 very beautiful original free drawings in colors out of text. These are unsigned gouache, watercolour or pencil drawings, each one different in hand. They are of a very beautiful quality of execution, carried out unquestionably by true artists. A very well-preserved copy, in which Masson's illustrations have been added separately.
Estimate
€2,000 - €3,000
Result
€2,000
Buyer's premium
28%
ARAGON (Louis). Fucking Irene.
[Paris: René Bonnel, Pascal Pia], 1928. - In-4, 240 x 190: (2 ff. whites), 85 pp., (3 ff. 2 last whites), printed cover. Garnet half-marroquin with corners, spine ribbed, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine
preserved, slipcase (contemporary binding). Dutel, 1270
, original edition of this famous text by Louis Aragon published clandestinely in 1928. It is a fragment of a great novel on which the author worked from 1913 to 1927, entitled La Défense de l'infini
, which he destroyed in 1927. A
masterpiece of erotic literature, Le Con d'Irène was considered by Jean-Jacques Pauvert as "one of the four or five most beautiful poetic texts produced
by surrealism. "
Edition of 150 numbered copies; one of the 125 on laid Arches
to the shape.
Unique copy, without the figures of André Masson but enriched with 7 very beautiful original free drawings in colors out of text. These are unsigned gouache, watercolour or pencil drawings, each one different in hand. They are of a very beautiful quality of execution, carried out unquestionably by true
artists.
A very well-preserved copy, in which Masson's illustrations have been added separately.
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