Max ERNST
1891 - 1976
Untitled
1962
Plate for the book Paroles peintes I
Original three-colour etching and aquatint
207 × 158 mm, margins 563 × 378 mm
Fine impression on Rives wove paper, from a total print run of approximately 225 copies, of which 25 were printed on this paper, printed by Georges Visat, Paris, published by Laar-Vernet, Paris, signed and numbered VII/XXV, minute registration holes at the centre of the subject’s edges, very slight traces of a passe-partout along the edges, a small spot of oxidation in the lower left-hand corner, slight traces of glue along the lower and right-hand edges as well as on the reverse
Reference: Spies & Leppien 85 D