Online - Modern and Contemporary Art Max Ernst Paroles peintes. 1962. etching with aquatint in three colours on Richard de Bas laid paper (watermark). 20.8 x 15.8 cm (38.3 x 28.2 cm). Signed and inscribed. Loosely mounted in passepartout. - Very slightly unfresh in a few margins, very slight crease in three corners, very slightly yellowed in outer margins verso, good overall. Splendid, nuanced trial proof before the edition with slightly embossed platemark and wide margins, scoop margin on two sides. Spies-Leppien, 85th - Èpreuve d'essai outside the edition. Printer: Georges Visat, Paris. Edition: O. Lazar-Vernet, Paris. Etching with aquatint Richard de Bas laid paper (with watermark). Signed and indicated "essai". Loosely inserted in mat. - Slightly unfresh in few margins, very slight crease mark in three corners, very slightly yellowed in outer margins on the verso, all in all good. Splendid, highly-nuanced proof print before the edition with slightly impressed plate mark and wide margin, deckle edge on two sied. - Èpreuve d'essai aside the edition. 500