Georges HugnetLe Guide rose : Huit jours à Trébaumec (ASSOCIATION COPY WITH A SIGNED PAINTING )
Photographs: Georges Hugnet
Publisher: Henri Mercher
116 pages
Year: 1969
Price: € 4000
Presented as a spoof of a Michelin Guide, this is a marvelous display of Hugnet's wit as a collagist. The book is a Surrealist masterpiece, published by Henri Mercher, the renowned bookbinder. The book appears as a Guide Rose Micheline, a parody of the Guide Michelin Rouge. In 1947, Hugnet traveled along the coast of Brittany taking photographs. Inspired by his travels he combined earlier collages with newly made ones and selected 82 collages to create a Surrealist drama with accompanying handwritten text. The collages depict humorous, racy and grotesque situations in and around Trébaumec, a word play on "good looking guy."
Illustrated wrappers in grey cloth slipcase, 38,6 x 18 cm, 82 photographs. Joined with a four pages photomontage untitled « Journal de vacances de Georges Hugnet ». Limited edition of 107 signed and numbered copies. with an original painting inscribed by George Hugnet to the publisher Henri Mercier in 71. and the subscription form in the original envelop. In excellent condition. Extremely scarce.
