LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Assemblage including a perfume flask inscribed Dans la nuit, pipe cleaners, a sea horse and a ceramic piece mounted in a ladies' headdress box

Measurements:

12.52 in. (31.80 cm.) (height) by 8.86 in. (22.50 cm.) (width) by 2.36 in. (6.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed André Breton, titled and dedicated A Dora (lower center); inscribed with a poem by André Breton and dated 12-2-1937. (lower right)

Provenance:

Dora Maar, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1937 and sold by the estate: Piasa, Paris, Les Livres de Dora Maar, October 29, 1998, lot 226); Acquired at the above sale