Max Ernst, 1891 Germany-1976 Paris
La femme 100 têtes (1991 reprint)
Ernst derived the material for his collages in ‘La femme 100 têtes’ from various encyclopaedias, dictionaries, technical books and pedagogical books. He named the picture stories ‘collage novel’. ‘La femme 100 têtes’ was first published in 1929 in Paris in an edition of 1000. Ernst also wrote the subtitles to the image. A first German edition was published by Gerhardt Verlag, Berlin, in 1962 with titles translated by Ernst. 322 pp. 25×19.5cm.147 picture stories. The collection holds a copy from the republished German edition of 1991. Published in an unaltered edition of 2500 in slipcase.
Riese Hubert, Renée, 1988, Surrealism and the Book, University of Califonia Press, Berkley.