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39. ERNST. Une Semaine de Bonté, ou, Les Sept Elements Capitaux. Roman. Paris. Aux Editions Jeanne Bucher. 1934.
5 vols. 4to. (280 x 224 mm). Illustrated throughout with monochrome plates after Ernst’s cut-up found etchings. Original publisher’s printed colour wrappers (purple, green, red, blue and orange) with Yapp edges, original card slipcase with green illustrated label to front board and title label to spine.
An excellent copy of Max Ernst’s Une Semaine de Bonté, ou les Sept Elements Capitaux.
From the edition limited to 816 copies, with this one of 800 on papier Navarre, each numbered in pencil as issued (many copies
feature stamped numbers).
The five cahiers of Ernst’s seminal graphic novel, albeit without text, are individually titled as follows:
Premier Cahier: Dimanche / Elément: La Boue. Exemple: Le Lion de Belfort. (Purple wrappers).
Deuxième Cahier: Lundi / Elément: L’Eau. Exemple: L’Eau. (Green wrappers).
Troisième Cahier: Mardi / Elément: Le Feu. Exemple: La Cour du Dragon. (Red wrappers).
Quatrième Cahier: Mercredi / Elément: Le Sang. Exemple: Oedipe. (Blue wrappers).
Cinquième Cahier: Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi / Eléments: Le Noir / La Vue / Inconnu. Exemples: Le Rire du Coq, L’Ile de Paques / L’Interieur de la Vue / La Cle des Chants. (Yellow wrappers).
Une Semaine de Bonté is the last of Max Ernst’s trilogy of Surrealist books, after La Femme 100 Têtes (1929) and Rêve d’une Petite Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel (1930), with illustrations after his collages. The collages, in the manner of nineteenth-century engravings, were made by Ernst from old etched and engraved plates.