This is a very RARE collector's item. Numbered Limited Edition catalogue of Surrealist works exhibited by Marcel Duchamp and Andre Breton in 1947. This book has authentic Swann Auction Gallery provenance for increased investment value (see image) With 24 original artworks by Ernst, Miró, Lam, Man Ray, Bellmer, Arp, Tanguy, Matta, Calder, et al. Cramer, Miró Illustrated Books Cramer no. II. This one is of a Numbered Limited edition created in 1947 out of a total edition of 999, this one being a desiably low no.109. This is NOT to be confused with the unnumbered edition. 

This auction comes with Swann Auction Provenance, Swann Auction Bid card (Lot #020), Numbered Limited edition Tirage justification and COA for continued provenance.

A landmark exhibition following the Second World War. It is a softcover. Square quarto, 140pp., illustrated book with mixed media relief sculpture, on cover, with five lithographs in color, twelve lithographs in black, four etchings in black, one etching in color, and two woodcuts in black on ivory wove paper. Uncut pages, never read.This catalogue, which is 76 years old, is in excellent unread condition. 

Has Swann Auction Galleries Provenance, Lot #020
Features the works of the following notable artists:
  • Jean (Hans) Arp
  • Hans Bellmer
  • Victor Brauner
  • Serge Brignoni
  • Alexander Calder
  • Bruno Capacci
  • Julio de Diego
  • Enrico Donati
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Max Ernst
  • David Hare
  • Jacques Hérold
  • Marcel Jean
  • Wifredo Lam
  • Jacqueline Lamba
  • Maria Martins
  • Roberto Matta
  • Joan Miró
  • Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
  • Kay Sage
  • Yves Tanguy
  • Dorothea Tanning
  • Toyen (Marie Čermínová)
  • Suzanne van Damme

A notoriously fragile book, a study by Imre Joszef Balazs entitled "Le Surrealisme en 1947: The Export and Exchange of Ideas in Post-War International Surrealism" begins with this description of the event: "The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1947 entitled Le Surréalisme en 1947, organized at the Maeght gallery in Paris, may be considered as a conversion point in the history of Surrealism, opening up (short-term) possibilities for new groups and generations desiring to join the movement, while at the same time it represented the closing moment for several small-scale Surrealist projects set up by individuals and groups. Using the opportunity presented by the exhibition, young French and Belgian Surrealists turned against the group of artists gathered around Breton and initiated the establishment of a group of revolutionary Surrealists. Shortly afterwards, the relationship worsened between Breton and those members of the group personally committed to upholding the values of the pre-World War Surrealist group, and new exclusions and severances occurred as a result - not for the first or last time in the history of the movement."