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Bon Jour Max Ernst by Roland Penrose

Bon Jour Max Ernst by Roland Penrose

Bon Jour Max Ernst

Roland Penrose

Title

Bon Jour Max Ernst

 
Artist

Roland Penrose

  1900 - 1984 (biography)
Year
1976  
Technique
color soft-ground etching 
Image Size
14 7/8 x 9 3/4" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
26 of 100  
Annotations
pencil editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white wove Arches 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
19231 
Price
SOLD
Description
A rare etching by British Surrealist Roland Penrose who was a close friend of Ernst, Man Ray and Picasso, about whom he wrote the first biography. Penrose and S.W. Hayter worked together in England in 1940 to organize a camouflage unit for the war effort.