Man Ray - Benjamin Péret - Louis Aragon - Lot 72

Man Ray - Benjamin Péret - Louis Aragon 1929. Published by Variétés magazine, Brussels, 1929. Small in-4 (28 x 22 cm). Original paperback edition, 28 pages on 14 unpaginated leaves. Volume illustrated with four (4) photographs by Man Ray (halftone prints mounted from above on leaves and titled Printemps, Été, Automne, Hiver). Poems by Benjamin Péret and Louis Aragon. Justification at the end of the volume. Edition of 215 copies, one of 160 on Montval paper. Some foxing. Size of halftones: 17 x 13 cm A very rare copy of this sulphurous pornographic-poetic pamphlet produced for Paul-Gustave Van Hecke's Belgian magazine Variétés, almost the entire print run of which was seized and destroyed by French customs. This libertine almanac, divided into two semesters and four seasons, remains one of the most licentious Surrealist productions to this day.