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Heisler Henri / TOYEN: Les Spectres du désert

1939

Poems by Jindřich Heisler for the cycle of twelve drawings by Toyen from 1936–1937 (translated into French by Jindřich Hořejší)
Toyen: 12 drawings
Published by Editions Albert Skira, Paris / Éditions Surréalistes, Prague, 1939
Print run: 300 copies, numbered 1−300
29 × 23,3 cm, unpaginated, printed on one side
Dedication to Édouard Léon Théodore Mesens, 10 August 1946, signed J. Heisler
Note: The book was printed in Prague by Éditions Surréalistes in the print run of 300 numbered copies. The publishing house Éditions Albert Skira in Paris shielded the Czech edition for political reasons. Benjamin Péret mediated contact between the publishers

TOYEN-ČERMÍNOVÁ MARIE

From 1917 to 1922 she studied at the School of Applied Art in Prague in the studio of decorative painting headed by Professor Emanuel Dítě. From the outset she behaved as an exceptionally free woman and a radical one by the standards of the day. A crucial moment in Toyen’s career was her meeting with her future partner and closest friend, the painter Jindřich Štyrský. In 1923 she joined the Devětsil group and the Mánes artists’ association. In 1925 she and Jindřich Štyrský left together for Paris, where they would soon present their own artistic movement that they called Artificialism. The movement oscillated between abstraction and Surrealism and was also inspired by Imaginative Art. On her return from France in 1934 she and Štyrský established the Surrealist Group. She spent the war years in Prague and was forced to work underground with no opportunity to exhibit. After the war she left Czechoslovakia before the Communist dictatorship was established and settled for good in Paris. She continued to associated with the foremost representatives of Surrealism André Breton and Benjamin Péret and she continued to create in the spirit of late Surrealism until the 1970s.
28,5 × 41,5 cm
1946

TOYEN: Střelnice (Shooting Gallery)

30,5 × 39 cm
1944

TOYEN / Jindřich Heisler: Schovej se válko!

24 × 21 cm
1947

André Breton, Marcel Duchamp: Prière de toucher [Touch, please]

20 × 24 cm
1948

André Breton: La lampe dans l'horloge (Lamp in the Horologium)

19,3 × 14,5 cm
1951

Jean-Louis Bouquet: Alastor ou le visage de feu (Alastor or the Face of Fire)

16,5 × 12,7 cm
1952

Révolte sur mesure – numero special 5-6 (Tailored Revolt)

19 × 14,3 cm
1953

Gérard Legrand: Des pierres de mouvance (Moving Stones)

14 × 14 cm
1956

TOYEN: Le surréalisme même 1

31,5 × 23,5 cm
1957

Charles-Elie Flamand: À un oiseau de houille perché sur la plus haute branche du feu (To the Coal Bird Perched on the Highest Branch of Fire)

30,4 × 20,5 cm
1957

Benjamin Péret: Le Gigot: Sa vie et son œuvre (The Ham: Its Life and Work)

24,6 × 16,2 cm
1958

Péret Benjamin Péret: Histoire naturelle (Natural History)

1958

Jehan Mayoux: A perte de vue

25 × 17,2 cm
1961

Pierre Dhainaut: Mon sommeil est un verger d'embruns (My Sleep is an Orchard of Water Spray)

33,2 × 26 cm
1965

Claude Cortot: Introduction à la lecture de Benjamin Péret (Introduction to the Reading of Benjamin Péret)

21 × 13,5 cm
1966

André Breton: Sur la route de la San Romano (On the Road to San Romano)

30 × 23 cm
1967

Annie Le Brun: Sur le champ (Immediately)

33 × 26,3 cm
1967

TOYEN / Radovan Ivšić: Débris de rêves (Shards of Dreams)

25,4 × 17,3 cm
1968

Radovan Ivšić: Le Roi Gordogane (King Gordogane)

26,5 × 18,5 cm
1969

Guy Gabanel: Odeurs d’amour (Scent of Love)

19,5 × 14,5 cm
1970

Jean-Pierre Duprey: La Forêt sacrilège et autres textes (The Sacrilegious Forest and Other Texts)

24 × 17 cm
1972

Annie Le Brun: Tout près, les Nomades (Close Up, Nomades)

31,8 × 44 cm
1973

TOYEN: Tir (Shooting Gallery)

20,2 × 13,7 cm
1950

Philip Lamantia: Touch of the Marvelous

27,8 × 19 cm
1953

TOYEN / Heisler Jindřich Heisle: Les Spectres du Désert (Phantoms of the Desert)

31,3 x 25 cm
1974

TOYEN / Monograph

25 × 16,5 cm
1976

Jehan Mayoux: Oeuvres

24 × 17,5 cm
1977

Annie Le Brun: Annulaire de lune (Ring of the Moon)

12,5 × 10 cm
1947

Invitation-catalogue of the exhibition EXPOSITION TOYEN

33 x 18 cm
1953

Invitation-catalogue of the exhibition Toyen

21 × 10,5 cm
1955

TOYEN: Granit de la solitude (Granite of Solitude)

21,7 × 7,8 cm
1958

TOYEN: Les sept épées hors du fourreau (Seven Swords from the Scabbard)

17 × 13 cm
1960

TOYEN

17,5 × 13,2 cm
1962

TOYEN

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Girl in a fur

undated
Old Eroticism

Old Eroticism

1996
Concrete (Below a Slag-Heap)

Concrete (Below a Slag-Heap)

1983
Wallachian Madonna

Wallachian Madonna

1921
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