[SURREALISM]:

[SURREALISM]: A printed small 8vo exhibition catalogue (unsigned) for the Exposition Surréaliste at the Pierre Colle Gallery, Rue Cambacérès, Paris, 7th - 18th June (1933). The catalogue lists around seventy works that will be exhibited, arranged alphabetically by artist, including Jean Arp (three works), André Breton (´Objet´), Salvador Dali (one of the largest contributors with eight pieces including Harpe invisible, Chaise atmosphérique, Oeufs sur le plat atmosphériques, and Buste de femme rétrospectif etc.), Marcel Duchamp (´Pharmacie´), Paul Eluard (´Objet basé sur la perversion des oreilles´), Marie-Berthe Ernst (portraits of Max Ernst and André Breton), Max Ernst (seven pieces including Vol nupital, Un libertin attaqué d´une maladie mortelle..., Une lettre, and Objet sans prétention etc.), Alberto Giacometti (six pieces including Mannequin and Sucre minéral etc.), Georges Hugnet (´Le poil de la bête´), Valentine Hugo (seven pieces including Portrait d´Achim d´Arnim and La religieuse portugaise etc.), Rene Magritte (two pieces, both tables), Joan Miro (´Objets´), Man Ray (six pieces including Saucisse-artifice, Oeil-métronome, Portrait manqué etc.), Yves Tanguy (five pieces including Un risque dans chaque main, L´obsession de la prophétie, and L´opinion des oiseaux etc.) and others. Pablo Picasso was also due to exhibit three sculptures, however his name and entries have been neatly covered with a small piece of contemporary paper, evidently having withdrawn the artworks from the exhibition. Bound in the original brown paper wrappers with black printed title to the cover. About EX

Pierre Colle (1909-1948) French art dealer, painter and poet, a close friend of Max Jacob. Colle opened his second gallery on Rue Cambacérès where he organised notable exhibtions and was one of the first gallery owners to show the works of Salvador Dali.