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Lot 57

Roger Parry
(1905-1977)
Le Tas de Sable

4 October 2021, 14:00 EDT
New York

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Roger Parry (1905-1977)

Le Tas de Sable, 1929
Gelatin silver print from Banalité, printed 1929, credit and date in pencil on the verso.
21.6 x 16.5cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2in)

Footnotes

Provenance
Madeline Parry Collection, Paris;
David Grob Collection, London;
with Zabriskie Gallery, New York;
to a Private collection, North Carolina

Literature
Fargue, Banalité: Illustré de Réogrammes et Recherches d'Objects de Loris et Parry, Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, Paris, 1930

Banalité is perhaps one of the most significant collaborations of word and image in the realm of illustrated Surrealist books, combining Leon-Paul Fargue's previously-published 1922 volume of prose and poems with sixteen, full-page images (then a new development) by the noted French photographer and cinematographer Roger Parry. This very rare silver print was originally in the collection of Madeline Parry, wife of the artist.

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