Helhestens Forlag, København, [1945] 23 x 16 cm, 35 pp. ex. n° 279/300 Ref.1
Poetry and lithographed illustrations from one of the main figures of the COBRA movement. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by the artist and with a dedication to Christian Dotremont. Org. decorated boards. A little wear on the spine at the top and bottom. Otherwise very good.
Christian Dotremonts’ own copy with a dedication by Carl-Henning Pedersen in 1948 as a birth certificate of Cobra and a monument to cross-fertilization between two main actors in the Cobra adventure.
‘Til Christian Dotremont fra Carl-Henning
For kunstens og kunsternes samarbejde og indbyrdes inspiration mellem landene.’
‘For Christian Dotremont from Carl-Henning
For the art and the collaboration of the artists and their mutual inspiration between the countries.’
- Carl-Henning Pedersen (Copenhagen 1913 – Frederiksberg 2007)
Danish painter and poet as the most spontaneous exponent of the Danish Cobra branch.
- Christian Dotremont (Tervuren 1922 – Buizingen 1979)
Auteur surréaliste et logogrammiste belge, inventeur et co-fondateur de COBRA