Max Ernst, Benjamin Péret, and others
La Brebis galante (The Sexy Ewe)
1948
Scroll
- Artist: Max Ernst
- Author: Benjamin Péret
- Printer (text): Viglino
- Printer (etchings): Georges Visat
- Publisher: Éditions Prèmieres
La Brebis galante (The Sexy Ewe)
1948
Physical Qualities
Bound volume with text (letterpress printed in black and red inks), three color etchings, and 21 relief prints with color stencils (pochoir), plus color lithograph cover
, Case: 262 x 210 x 30 mm. (10 5/16 x 8 1/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Book: 242 x 198 x 16 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 13/16 x 5/8 in.)
Sheet (page): 240 x 194 mm. (9 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Ryda Hecht Levi Collection of Illustrated Books, Bequest of Ryda H. Levi, Baltimore
Object Number
2009.25
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2009; Ryda H. Levi, Lutherville, MD; Elizabeth Phillips, NY, 1986
"Artist and the Book" 100; Leppien, "Max Ernst: Das Graphische Werk" no. 28; Johnson, "Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000" no. 123
