Research Catalog

Title

C'était une semaine de bonté.

Author

Broodthaers, Marcel

Publication

[Cologne : Galerie Thomas Borgmann, 1974]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ernst, Max, 1891-1976.
• Ronjat, Etienne Antoine Eugène, 1822-
• Galerie Thomas Borgmann

Description

1 portfolio : all ill.; 43 x 34 cm.

Alternative Title

• C'était comme une semaine de bonté.
• Max Ernst : roman.
• Notes de lecture.
• C comme serpent.

Subjects

• Artists' books > Germany
• Broodthaers, Marcel

Note

• Consists of a portfolio of quarter white cloth and white glossy paper boards, with 3 white thin cardboard flaps attached to back cover and 3 sets of cloth ties. Front and back covers illustrated with full-page reproductions of ill. from the 3rd book of Max Ernst's Une semaine de bonté (here supplied with legends in the spirit of Ernst's principal source for these images, Jules Mary's Les damnés de Paris, illustrated by E. Ronjat). Front inside cover illustrated with reproduction of 2 drawings and reproduction of photo. of Max Ernst and friend, allegedly from Stern, Nr. 52 (Dec. 17, 1972); back inside cover illustrated with reproduction of unidentified book ill., an initial C around which a serpent is entwined; bottom flap illustrated with reduced reproduction of ill. on back inside cover.
• Title from back cover. Title recorded in Galerie Michael Werner cat. as: C'était comme une semaine de bonté.
• Title on front cover: Max Ernst : roman.
• "Achevé d'imprimer en 1974, 16 Albertusstrasse, Köln"--Bottom flap.
• Text on inside front cover: Notes de lecture. Text on top flap: C comme serpent.
• Blank sheet of white thin cardboard inserted.

Indexed In (note)

• Galerie Michael Werner. Marcel Broodthaers

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 1974 94-85

OCLC

NYPG94-B11131

Author

Broodthaers, Marcel.

Title

C'était une semaine de bonté.

Imprint

[Cologne : Galerie Thomas Borgmann, 1974]

Indexed In:

Galerie Michael Werner. Marcel Broodthaers, 17

Local Note

One of 25 copies printed, each with a different text inscribed by the artist, Marcel Broodthaers, on otherwise blank side flap to complete the phrase of text visible on top flap when side flap is closed: "C comme." Spencer Coll. copy inscribed: "Cygne, cordialement, M.B."

"Printed in 25 signed and numbered copies"--Galerie Michael Werner cat. Spencer Coll. copy not numbered; initialed by the artist on side flap (cf. preceding note).

Added Author

Ernst, Max, 1891-1976. Semaine de bonté.

Ronjat, Etienne Antoine Eugène, 1822-

Galerie Thomas Borgmann.

Added Title

C'était comme une semaine de bonté.

Max Ernst : roman.

Notes de lecture.

C comme serpent.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Ger. 1974 94-85