Etching on vélin cuve de Rives paper. Paper size: 9.65 x 7.87 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Feuilles éparses, 1965. Published and printed by Louis Broder, Paris, June 18, 1965. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This album was completed to print, June 18, 1965 in Paris. Original collective edition drawn of one hundred and fifty examples on vélin cuve de Rives, numbered 1 to 130 and I to XX. Some examples are intended for companions. All examples are signed by the artists on the colophons. The unique lithography of Wols, and the etching of Dominguez are their last engraved works. Apart from the edition it was drawn proofs on large margins on various papers, all justified and signed by the artists. The woods and coppers have been striped and the stones erased after the draw. MAX ERNST (1891-1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of textured objects and relief surfaces to create images—and grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. Ernst is noted for his unconventional drawing methods as well as for creating novels and pamphlets using the method of collages. He served as a soldier for four years during World War I, and this experience left him shocked, traumatised and critical of the modern world. During World War II he was designated an "undesirable foreigner" while living in France. Ernst was in the milieu of Picasso, Dali, and Miro.