| Marcel Marien |
Le secret à fleur de peau
1984/1984
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 red edition stamp, which is numbered No. 4 of 5 on verso of print. 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.21 and Marcel Mariën, Retrospective des Retrospectives. p.105 for a slight variant.
Price: $3,500 (ref. 9383)