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- Author
- Max Ernst
- Medium
- Volume IV from a five volume serial novel with 182 line blocks after collages
- Dimensions
- page (each): 10 3/4 x 8 1/16" (27 x 20.5 cm)
- Publisher
- Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris
- Printer
- Georges Duval, Paris
- Edition
- 812
- Credit
- The Louis E. Stern Collection
- Object number
- 828.1964.D
- Copyright
- © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
- Illustrated book
- Une Semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux (A Week of Kindness or the Seven Deadly Elements)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- This work is part of an illustrated book with 4 other works online.
- Max Ernst has 239 works online.
- There are 10,452 illustrated books online.
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