TOYEN. Hide your war! Cycle of nine drawings. 1944. Poem by J. Heisler. Paris: the artist, May 1947. - Album in-4 oblong, 306 x 390 : (2 ff.), 9 plates. In sheets, in the publisher's cardboard portfolio. Uncommon first edition of this album of nine compositions by the Czech painter TOYEN (1902-1980), accompanied by the French translation of a poem by the Czech poet Jindřich Heisler (1914-1953). These drawings were made in 1944 and feature animal skeletons in dreamlike, devastated landscapes, marking the anguish of that troubled time. Edition at 300 numbered copies. Some wear to the portfolio, missing label printed on the first cover.