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1938réf. 87425Paris: Éditions Denoël 1938. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Printed paper wrappers; 261pp. Text mostly unopened. Fading to spine with scuffing to publisher's price-sticker; expected toning to text; still a tight lightly worn copy Very Good. Text entirely in French. There was no numbered issue. Quite presentable copy of Calas' first surrealist work written shortly after his relocation to Paris from his native Athens. Foyers d'Incendie "Hearths of Arson" based in large part on Calas' reading of Trotsky's theoretical works on the role of literature in revolution won high praise from André Breton and would become one of the great forgotten texts of Marxist Surrealism never being reprinted in French and translated into only a few languages. Calas would later move to the U.S. where he collaborated with Charles Henri Ford on the American surrealist journal View. GERSHMAN p.12. Éditions Denoël unknown
1948réf. 87424Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire 1948. First Edition. Trade issue after 587 numbered copies in various limitations. 12mo. Printed glossy-paper wrappers; 1125pp. A clean tight well-preserved copy in the original wrappers with expected toning to text; Very Good. The full-page lithographic illustrations by Masson being on better paper are clean and free of marginal darkening. Text entirely in Frenc; the text includes Breton's preace to Aimée Césaire's "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal." GERSHMAN p.9. Éditions du Sagittaire unknown
1952réf. 87538Paris: Soleil Noir / Presses du Livre Français 1952. First Edition. Trade issue after 50 copies on Alfa. 12mo. Original printed wrappers; 1271pp; illus frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of plates. Slight toning to spine else a tight Near Fine copy; the text is completely unopened i.e. pages are uncut clean and supple with practically no toning to the margins. Prospectus and order form laid-in. Text entirely in French. Premier issue of Di Dio's short-lived surrealist quarterly which ended after the double issue 3/4 in early 1953. Contributors include Antonin Artaud Aimé Cesaire Julien Gracq Philippe Dechartre others. Illustrations by Max Ernst Paul Klee Vasily Kandinsky etc. Uncommon especially in this condition. Soleil Noir / Presses du Livre Français unknown
1950réf. 20415AB1950. Paris Editioons du Sagittaire 1950 23 : 15 cm. 1 leaf 226 pages with many dual-tone and b/w illustrations 6 leaves advertisment. Half calf original coloure wrappers bound in. SURREALIST ALMANAC OF THE HALF CENTURY - Calendar of the World Tour of Tolerable Inventions by André Breton and Benjamin Péret. First edition text in French. unknown
1985réf. 63685New York NY & Washington DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art & Abbeville Press 1985. 4to. 9.75 x 12.5 in. 243 1 pp. Colour frontisp. with photo illustrations some folding double-page throughout. Red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. NF/NF copy from the library of Los Angeles photographer Bill Bronstein b. 1949. First edition of this nicely illustrated analysis examining that photography lies at the core of surrealism and surrealist art examining the works of Hans Bellmer Boiffard Andre Breton Salvador Dali Marcel Duchamp Magritte Man Ray and others. Corcoran Gallery of Art & Abbeville Press, hardcover
réf. 367757Paris France: Maeght Editeur 2000. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies '21/100' signed by Venus Khoury-Ghata and Matta total printing of 120 copies. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase box also fine. First edition limited to 100 numbered copies '21/100' signed by Venus Khoury-Ghata and Matta total printing of 120 copies. OCLC lists two holdings none in the United States Paris- Bibliotheque Kandinsky and Bibliotheque nationale de France. Nicely illustrated with an original color lithograph measuring twelve inches by four inches by Roberto Matta. Sebastian Antonia Matta Echaurrenm 1912-2002 abstract expressionist and surrealist artist was born in Santiago Chile. Vénus Khoury-Ghata French-Lebanese poet and novelist was born in 1937 in Bsharri Lebanon. She has lived in Paris since 1972 and has published several novels and collections of poems. and has won the following awards:1980- Prize Apollinaire for "Les ombres et leurs cris"; 1987- Prize Mallarmé for "Un Faux pas du soleil"; 1992- Grand Prix de la Société des gens de lettres for Fables pour un people d'argile; Prize Jules Supervielle for "Anthologie personnelle"; Prize Baie des anges for "Le moine l'ottoman et la femme du grand argentier"; 2011- Prize of Goncourt for Poetry for all her works; 2012- Poetry Prize Pierrette Micheloud for "Où vont les arbres." per Wikipedia. Maeght Editeur unknown
1950réf. 333501Paris: Messager Boiteux de Paris 1950. First edition limited to 500 copies. Text in French. 8vo. Front cover has tiny closed tear at top edge small soil spot and faint crease at lower fore-corner else a very good copy. First edition limited to 500 copies. Text in French. 8vo. Surrealist and Dada writings inspired in part by Jazz and the music of Duke Ellington. OCLC locates seven holdings Library of Congress Emory Northwestern Illinois Missouri Hofstra and South Carolina State. T.C. #1. T.C. #1 Messager Boiteux de Paris unknown
1932réf. 338037Paris: Editions des Cahiers Libres 1932. First edition trade issue limited to 2000 numbered copies "sur velin omnia" text in French. 172pp. 12mo. Pictorial warppers. Archivally rebacked with new unprinted spine. Few tiny closed edge tears on front cover text evenly browned due to acidic paper else a very good copy. First edition trade issue limited to 2000 numbered copies "sur velin omnia" text in French. 172pp. 12mo. "Andre Breton is undeniably the outstanding representative of literary Surrealism in France. his books of critical discussion of the new theories-- as for instance. Les Vases communicants. have established his reputation as the most fully qualified exponent of the 'orthodox' Surrealist doctrine" Lemaitre. 'From Cubism to Surrealism in French Literature' p. 209. Editions des Cahiers Libres unknown
1956réf. 17898AB1956. no. 1- 5. Octobre 1956 - Printemps 1959. Paris Pauvert 1956 - 1959. 195 : 195 cm. With many partly coloured plates and illustratins. Coloured illustrated original wrappers. The complete collection rare. The illustrated covers are by Duchamp Molinier Max Bellmer and Arp. - Without the two enclosures. - Spine of vol. 1 demages otherwise in good condition. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert Éditeur 1957-1959. Sm.8° Sq. - 5 Volumes - 156-167-95-54-64 pages - Colour & B/w reproductions. Complete Collection of Le Surréalisme même/Surrealism itself: is one of the major surrealist journals of the post-war period gathering the works and the remarks of Kostas Axelos Jean-Louis Bédouin Hans Bellmer André Breton Leonora Carrington Georges Darien Adrien Dax Marcel Duchamp Léo Ferré Abel Gance Julien Gracq Nelly Kaplan Joyce Mansour Mayoux ELT Mesens Nora Mitrani P.L. Palau Octavio Paz Benjamin Peret Fernando Pessoa André Pieyre of Mandiargues Man Ray Magloire Saint-Aude. First edition text in French language. Original wrappers. unknown
1961réf. 17854AB1961. Volume 1 - 4 off 8. Paris La Terrain Vague 1961 - 1963. 23 : 15 cm. With many illustrations. Illustrated original wrappers. First edition of the first 4 issues of this rare journal a total of 8 issues was published. With literary contributions by Andre Breton Gérard Legrand Paul Nougé Jean-Claude Silbermann etc. and illustration by Dali Kubon Schroeder-Sonnenstern René Magritte Konrad Klapheck and others. llustrées.Revue littéraire et artistique parue sous la direction de André Breton. 8 numéros en 8 livraisons du n° 1 octobre 1961 au n° 8 novembre 1965.Dernière revue dirigée par André Breton elle prend fin à sa mort. Comité de rédaction Robert Benayoun Gérard Legrand José Pierre Jean Schuster. Textes et illustrations de Pierre Alechinsky Arrabal Vincent Bounoure Annie Le Brun Ghérasim Luca René Magritte. - unknown
1950réf. 16861AB1950. Heidelberg Lambert Schneider 1950. 30 : 235 cm. 90 pages with 36 illustrations 16 1 coloured plates. Original boards First edition. - Introduction into surreal literature and painting on psychoanalytiv basis.based on the method of the complex psychology of C.G. Jung as well as the psychoanalysis of Freud. Very well documented. Treats the most important movements of modern art 'the presurrealist poems' Jarry Rimbaud Lautremont Apollinaire 'the surrealist m ovement' 'the surrealist authors' all important authors 'the painting of surrealkism' most detailled about Max Ernst specially the collage's of Max Ernst. The first issue of 'Un Semaine de Bonté' 'Le Lion de Belfort' and the paintings which are especially typical for surrealism are analyst in-depth. hardcover
1936réf. 87495London: The Surrealist Group in England 1936. September. Small 4to. 18 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Texts in English and French. Issued shortly after the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London from 11 June to 14 July 1936. Ten b&w reproductions. London: The Surrealist Group in England, unknown
1936réf. 48773London.: New Burlington Galleries. 1936. Original publisher's pink stapled wrappers with printed collage by Max Ernst to front cover later protective crystal wrappers. 8vo. 155 x 240 mm. Leaf with advertisements recto and verso leaf with title recto and committee and contributors verso leaf with advertisement recto and preface by André Breton translated by David Gascoyne verso and on following leaf leaf with advertisements recto and verso leaf with explanatory note and catalogue of exhibitors and their works in alphabetical order final leaf with printers' credit verso. Gaston Ferdière's presentation copy of the scarce catalogue for the ambitious and highly influential International Surrealist Exhibition held in London in 1936 signed by a number of the participants.Presented by Mesens in red ink: 'Exemplaire de Gaston Ferdière' and beneath the signatures of André Breton in green Hans Arp in pencil Roland Penrose in blue ink Claude Cahun in blue grey Sheila Legge Rupert Lee and David Gascoyne all in sepia Paul Eluard in black ink and Man Ray in pencil; the following leaf with advertisements and adjacent to the details of the committee list of contributors etc. features an inscription in black ink by Conroy Maddox: 'Refused to participate / Conroy Maddox'.Gaston Ferdière was a controversial figure a Surrealist-affiliated poet who published verse in the mid-1930s a doctor who administered to the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and a psychiatrist lauded and criticised for the electroshock therapy he administered to Antonin Artaud in the 1940s before Artaud's suicide in March 1948. Ferdière was a friend of Breton Crevel Desnos and Péret later Hans Bellmer and Unica Zûrn who he also treated and was anathemised by Isou another patient and the Lettrists along with psychiatrists and psychiatry in totality. At the titme of the London Surrealist Exhibition Ferdière had published a small handful of verse collections: 'L'Herbier' 1926 'La Chanson Fruste' 1927 'Ma Sébile' 1931 and 'Paix sur la Terre - Poèmes pour les Théâtres Prolétariens d'Action Contre la Guerre' 1936. 'No one personifies the thorny entanglement between modernism and the science of the soul better than Dr. Gaston Ferdière the psychiatrist who administered no less than 58 electroshock treatments to the Surrealist playwright Antonin Artaud during the Second World War. Determined to reconcile poetry and medicine Ferdière had studied under 'Professor Claude' - target of Breton’s anti-psychiatric rants - at Sainte-Anne while at the same time passing as a 'star of Surrealism in the bistros' of Paris in the mid-1930s . By the time Artaud showed up on his doorstep at Rodez psychiatric hospital Ferdiére had long since abandoned his poetic aspirations. Yet his old interests were rekindled in long conversations with the Surrealist playwright whose talents he sought to revive by a combination of 'art therapy' - writing drawing translating Lewis Carroll’s 'Through the Looking Glass' - and shock treatments - six courses ranging from 4 to 13 sessions each between June 20th 1943 and January 24th 1945. Electroshock was still in its experimental phase - the machine had hardly rolled in the door at Rodez - and the convulsions were so severe that Artaud fractured a vertebra in his neck during one of the treatments.' Kevin Repp.The International Surrealist Exhibition was held at the New Burlington Galleries from 11 June - 4 July 1936 organised by committees from England France Belgium and Scandinavia. The scale and range of works from artists was highly impressive see a list of exhibiting artists below and London was acting alongside Paris and New York in focusing on the new movement. In the same year Alfred Barr opened a show at the Museum of Modern Art New York entitled 'Fantastic Art Dada and Surrealism' and Paris' 'Cahiers d'Art' journal then at the height of its influence had devoted a whole issue to the Surrealist object. The exhibition comprising of some 390 works painting sculpture drawing and objects was opened by André Breton to some two thousand people thereafter averaging a footfall of one thousand people per day. Lectures were delivered throughout the exhibition and included Salvador Dali's presentation from within a deep-sea diving suit which needless to say put a strain on his respiratory system and resulted in his being rescued by the young poet David Gascoyne with a spanner.It is also significant that one of the most legendary moments of the exhibition was the performance by Sheila Legge who stood in the middle of Trafalgar Square in a white wedding dress inspired by a Dali painting her head obscured by a floral arrangement prefiguring Feminist and Fluxus performances of some 20 years later.Exhibiting artists included Eileen Agar Jean Arp Eugène Atget Hans Bellmer Jacques-André Boiffard Bill Brandt Victor Brauner Fanny Brennan Emmy Bridgwater Luis Buñuel Claude Cahun Leonora Carrington Ithell Colquhoun Gala Dalí Salvador Dalí Jean Dallaire Paul Delvaux Óscar Domínguez Christian Dotremont Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duhamel Curt Echtermeyer Max Ernst Leonor Fini Gordon Onslow Ford Esteban Francés Alberto Giacometti Julio González Jane Graverol Jacques Hérold Valentine Hugo Frida Kahlo Wifredo Lam Jacqueline Lamba Dora Maar Conroy Maddox René Magritte Georges Malkine Marcel Mariën André Masson Roberto Matta Mikuláš Medek Oscar Mellor John Melville E. L. T. Mesens Lee MillerDesmond Morris Joan Miró Méret Oppenheim Wolfgang Paalen Benjamín Palencia Roland Penrose Man Ray Toni del Renzio Kay Sage Kurt Seligmann André Souris Martin Stejskal Jindřich Štyrský Maurice Tabard Yves Tanguy Dorothea TanningKarel Teige Kristians Tonny Toyen Albert Valentin Remedios Varo James F. Walker Unica Zürn Philipp Humm.Printed on very good laid paper by the 'Women's Printing Society' the contents are on the whole very good with some few scattered spots while the cover as can be expected shows some signs of age.see Kevin Repp's 'The Strange Case of Dr. Ferdière' Yale 2011; Ades 14.55. New Burlington Galleries. unknown
1966réf. 23242Paris: Lettres Modernes 1966. soft covers as issued. four volume set. vol. 1 has an owner name/date to first page. minor bits of exterior wear a little crease a little smudge. no text markings. no tears. strong sewn bindings.; french text as issued.; no. 1 1966 232pp./no. 2 1968 264pp./no. 3 1969 147pp./no. 4 1970 176pp. some have b/w figures. each contains numerous articles documents essays by various contributors. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Multi-Volume Set. Lettres Modernes Paperback
réf. 28668Paris 28 mai 1960. 4 p. en 1 f. 250 x 320 mm plié impression en noir sur papier de couleur saumon. . Tract illustré d’un dessin d’Alfred Kubin et signé conjointement par le mouvement surréaliste et le mouvement Phases rédigé par Legrand et Jaguer en mai 1960. . L'un des tout derniers tracts surréalistes Tir de barrage vise l'exposition « Anti-procès » organisée par Alain Jouffroy et Jean-Jacques Lebel à la galerie des Quatre-Saisons. Il existe pour ce tract un tirage à 20 exemplaires signés et imprimés sur beau papier. Ancienne trace de trombone. [Paris], 28 mai 1960. 4 p. en 1 f. (250 x 320 mm) plié, impression en noir sur papier de couleur (saumon). unknown
réf. 14136Paris novembre 1952 - juin 1953. 8 f. 430 x 280 mm recto impression en noir sur papier de couleurs. . Collection complète de la première série de cette revue dirigée par Jean Schuster imprimée sur divers papiers de couleur vert rouge crème blanc ocre violine et orangé. Textes de Breton Alleau Duprey Legrand Meret Oppenheim etc. . Avant qu'elle ne devienne une revue à part entière cette publication parut sous forme de feuillets recto revêtant plus l'aspect d'un journal. Elle était surtout destinée à jouer le rôle d'un « organe d'informations » au sein du groupe. Le titre dessiné rappelle le sens géométrique de médium : module d'architecture. Dirigé par Jean Schuster cette publication aura comme collaborateurs autour d'André Breton soit des surréalistes de fraîche date soit d'anciens compagnons de route comme Péret. Bel exemplaire de cette série extrêmement fragile et rarement complète. Paris, novembre 1952 - juin 1953. 8 f. (430 x 280 mm) recto, impression en noir sur papier de couleurs. unknown
réf. 30671Chicago Black Swann Press octobre 1978. 16 p. 290 x 435 mm impression en noir. . Numéro unique de cette publication surréaliste américaine sous forme de tabloïd. Organe du groupe de Chicago dirigé par Franklin Rosemont ; on y trouve le tract 'Voluptuous magnet embraceable dawn' et des textes de Rachel Blackwell Bogartte Green Jablonski Lamantia Ribitch F. Rosemont P. Rosemont Taub Tristan Meinecke Lane Ellwanger Jaguer Rikki El Janabi Mado Peters Redmond Booth. Des artistes du mouvement viennent en illustrer les textes: Bogartte El Janabi Erben Granell Rube Goldberg F. Rosemont P. Rosemont Green Ribitch José Argemi Nelson Algren Peters Rammel Schlechter Duvall Taub Welson Haïfa Zangana. Parfait état. Chicago, Black Swann Press, (octobre) 1978. 16 p. (290 x 435 mm), impression en noir. unknown
réf. 16274Paris FeÌvrier 1949. 1 f. 270 x 350 mm. Impression noire sur papier blanc. . Lettre ouverte sous forme de tract. L'exemplaire de Gaston Ferdière. . Les surréalistes se portent solidaires du mouvement « Citoyens du monde » et de son initiateur Garry Davis qui se rendit ceÌlèbre en interrompant une seÌance de l'ONU au Palais de Chaillot en novembre 1948. Davis sera soutenu par le mouvement Front humain auquel Breton collabore depuis le printemps. Le poète participe à plusieurs meetings mondialistes et le groupe tout entier adresse en février 1949 son soutien au jeune activiste à travers ce tract intituleÌ « Les surréalistes à Garry Davis ». Notre exemplaire a été plié affranchi et adressé à Gaston Ferdière : l'adresse « Médecin chef de l'Asile de Rodez Aveyron » a été biffée et le courrier fait suivre à cette adresse : « Villa Ugarte à Anglet B. Py. Basses-PyreÌneÌes ». Plusieurs eÌchanges de lettres au moment du meeting du 30 avril 1949 organiseÌ par Breton « Pour Gary Davis » attestent de contacts récurrents entre les deux hommes à cette époque. Paris, FeÌvrier 1949. 1 f. (270 x 350 mm). Impression noire sur papier blanc. unknown
réf. 78411A collection artwork artist books and letters sent from artist Mark Ryden to fellow artist Patrick Eddington. Mark Ryden b.1963 is a painter and graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He is considered to be part of the Lowbrow or pop surrealist art movement and was dubbed "the god-father of pop surrealism" by Interview magazine. In 2015 Artnet named Ryden and his wife painter Marion Peck the king and queen of Pop Surrealism. Patrick Eddington 1953-2016 was a beloved high school art teacher and artist who worked at Salt Lake City's Highland High School. He earned his BFA and Masters in Education from the University of Utah. Eddington created numerous etchings prints and paintings some of which are now held in the Henry Miller Estate Collection and the Miriam Patchen Collection. Eddington was the co-owner and operator of the publishing company Green Cat Press which focused on publishing literary broadsides as well as art prints. Eddington carried on extensive correspondence throughout his life with a staggering number of writers and visual artists. His charming and persuasive letters convinced many to engage him in lengthy correspondences. Eddington was also a generous gift-giver and was eager to forge connections among the writers and artists that he knew and admired Utah's Art Magazine website "A Passion for Arts and Letters. And Cats. Remembering Pat Eddington" April 5 2016. unknown
réf. 69-1683Iowa City: Dada/Surrealism The University of Iowa 1988. 8vo. circa 148 pp. Soft Cover Very Good B&W Plates. Iowa City: Dada/Surrealism, The University of Iowa, 1988 paperback
réf. 69-1699Iowa City: Dada/Surrealism The University of Iowa 1985. 8vo. circa 190 pp. Soft Cover Very Good B&W Plates. Iowa City: Dada/Surrealism, The University of Iowa, 1985 paperback
1995réf. 27755Lincoln:: University of Nebraska Press 1995. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy faint remainder stamp in a Fine dust jacket. Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by André Breton the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952 they include addresses manifestoes prefaces exhibition pamphlets and theoretical polemical and lyrical essays. Together they display the full span of Breton’s preoccupations his abiding faith in the early principles of surrealism and the changing orientations in light of crucial events of those years of the surrealist movement within which he remained the leading force.Having broken decisively with Marxism in the mid-1930s Breton repeatedly addresses the horrors of the Stalinist regime which denounced him during the Moscow trials of 1936. He argues for the autonomy of art and poetry and condemns the subservience to “revolutionary” aims exemplified by socialist realism. Other articles reflect on aesthetic issues cinema music and education and provide detailed meditations on the literary artistic and philosophical topics for which he is best known. Free Rein will prove indispensable for students of Breton surrealism and modern French and European culture. University of Nebraska Press, unknown
1975réf. 27168New York:: Macmillan 1975. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine uinclipped dust jacket. Thirion a French revolutionary was a prominent member of the French avant-garde involved in the Marxist-surrealist movement in Paris after World War I. His fellow "revolutionaries" included the likes of Breton Aragon Dali Miro and Giacometti. Thiron joined the Communist party in 1925 and he joined the surrealist movement in 1928. He was a friend of Louis Aragon and Georges Sadoul and was active with the surrealists between 1928 and 1934. During the Second World War he joined the Gaullist resistance. Thiron's autobiography captures the lost period between the wars and the rise in ideological disputes that followed; it is the journal of one man's devotion and disillusionment when the world was changing in revolutionary ways. Macmillan, unknown
1991réf. 27282New York:: Thames & Hudson 1991. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The author provides a narrative history of the Surrealist movement of the 1920's in Paris and an analysis of the major Surrealist literature accented by Parisian photographs by Micahel Woods. Uncommon in the hardcover. Thames & Hudson, hardcover
1950réf. 9830Munich West Germany 1950. Four original ink drawings on paper various sizes roughly 14x10" up to 20x14". Two are dated "24 X 50" and perhaps from a series with roman numerals IV and V. Another is dated "20 XII 50" and the last simply dated 52. Some light foxing and a few faint stains and smudges corners occasionally bumped. Residue from old adhesive on back of one of the larger images the two smaller pieces matted. Generally very good. A cohesive group of four surrealist ink drawings by Rolf Engler active in West Germany in the early 1950s as both painter and experimental filmmaker associated with the Munich film industry. The drawings dated across the years 1950-1952 fall squarely within the period of Engler's work on the animated short Der Traum in Tusche A Dream in Ink 1952 an abstract animated film employing fluid ink imagery and experimental animation to explore the psychological devastation of war lingering guilt and unresolved trauma through dreamlike and nightmarish forms. The Harvard Film Archive described the work as "an animated fantasy film with nightmarish aspects including not overly allegorical references to the more recent past made by a genius of the FRG animation art." Der Traum in Tusche received a prestigious Bundesfilmpreis in 1953 and was later screened at the Locarno International Film Festival and other such events. Though we have not been able to view the film the present drawings exhibit the same visual language described: surreal figures distorted anatomy and shifting dreamlike forms rendered in bold ink line and fluid drawing techniques that formed the basis of Engler's experimental animated work. Two pieces bear Roman numeral notation suggesting a conceptual or sequential framework consistent with animation-adjacent production methods. We find it very likely these drawings were either used or heavily influential in Traum in Tusche or other projects of Engler's from this time period. We find documents and scripts by Engler held in the Landesrchive in Nordrhein-Westfalen though we have not been able to find examples of his artwork. A rare surviving group of works on paper from the formative years of postwar German experimental animation preserving the hand of an elusive but historically important mid-century artist and filmmaker. . unknown