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MAX ERNST Signed Color Etching German

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MAX ERNST Signed Color Etching German
MAX ERNST
Cologne 1891- 1976 Paris (German)

Fete de Paix - Poems - 1961
Original Hand Signed and Inscribed Color Etching with Aqautint

Title : Fete de Paix - Poems.

Technique : Original Etching with Aquatint in color on Velin paper.

Paper Size : 28 X 22.5 cm / 11 X 8.9 inch.

Plate Size : 14.5 X 11.5 cm / 5.7 X 4.5 inch.

Additional Information : This work is Hand Signed in pencil at the lower right margin "max ernst".
And also hand inscribed in pencil "essai" (trial) at the lower left margin.
This work was printed and edited by the famous french editor Georges Visat from Paris in 1961.
The etching was printed in the series "Poems" that included 4 different etching and was published together with the publication "Poems by Holderlin".
Each of the etchings was printed in a small limited hand signed edition of only 90 impressions but ours is one of the few trial prints that were marked with the word "essai".
The publisher was Jean Hugues, Paris.

Literature : The complete graphic work of Max Ernst by Leppien, refernce 77 I b , illustrated in page 76.

Condition : Excellent Condition.