BELLMER / DALÍ / ERNST / MAGRITTE / PICABIA / TANGUY — Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, 1963

Exhibition catalogue. 17 × 21 cm. 24 unnumbered pages. Saddle-stapled black card wrappers with gold script lettering. Offset-printed illustrations in colour and black and white. Galerie André-François Petit, 122 boulevard Haussmann, Paris, 1963.

Published for a 1963 group exhibition at Galerie André-François Petit bringing together six central figures associated with Surrealism: Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Francis Picabia and Yves Tanguy. The catalogue moves from Magritte’s precisely staged interiors and Tanguy’s uninhabited biomorphic landscapes to Bellmer’s articulated bodies and anatomical drawings, with colour and black-and-white reproductions throughout. Individual works reproduced here have subsequently been identified in auction and catalogue-raisonné records as having appeared in the exhibition.

Produced after Surrealism’s interwar period, the publication records the movement’s continued circulation through the postwar commercial gallery. Earlier works from the 1920s–40s are placed alongside Bellmer’s recent drawings of 1961–63, turning the catalogue into a compact survey of the body, dream, landscape and psychological disturbance across three decades of practice.

The black wrappers with gold script lettering — naming each artist in turn — function as both cover and list: the exhibition reduced to six names on a dark ground. The final page carries a pencil inscription and small diagram, retained as evidence of the catalogue’s previous use and passage.

Condition: good vintage condition. General toning, rubbing and small losses to the wrapper edges and spine; light handling wear internally. Pencil inscription and small diagram to the final page, retained as evidence of the catalogue’s previous use.