| Marcel Marien |
La priere du diable
1991/1991
Silver print
on original mount
9-3/8 x 7 in. (238 x 178 mm)
Female nude. Signed, titled and dated on recto of thin board mount just below photograph in ink. With Marien's address and copyright stamp and his red edition stamp, which is numbered No. 3of 5 on verso of print. Estate stamp on verso of mount. Marien was one of the most important Belgium surrealists and was a friend of Rene Magritte, Picasso and Paul Eluard. He died in 1993. See, Lejeune, Marcel Mariën, Ne faites pas attention a la photographie, p.56 for a horizontal variant.
Price: $4,000 (ref. 9340)