Max Ernst

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976

Histoire Naturelle

The complete portfolio, comprising 34 reproductions and one lithograph printed in colors plus four duplicate reproductions of plates 6, 13, 17 and 28, 1972, signed in pencil on the lithograph and numbered 66/111, also numbered 66 in blue ink on the justification, from the total edition of 1200 (there is also a 1926 edition of 306), on wove paper, published by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, Germany, with title page and introduction by Hans Arp, the reproductions contained in the original cloth-covered box, the lithograph contained in the original paper folder (39 prints)

sheets: 500 by 324 mm 19 ⅝ by 12 ¾ in

lithograph image: 427 by 284 mm 16 ⅞ by 11 ⅛ in

lithograph sheets: 560 by 395 mm 22 by 15 ½ in

box overall: 520 by 340 by 25 mm 20 ½ by 13 ⅜ by 1 in