Bel Ami international Art Competition : The Temptation of St Anthony
An exhibition of eleven paintings by noted American and European artists submitted in competition for the selection of the one to be featured in the Loew-Lewin motion picture based on Guy de Maupassant’s novel The private affairs of Bel Ami. The exhibition will be circulated in the United States, England and possibly France until the end of 1947 by The American Federation of Art.
Washington, 1946-1947, in-4, broché de 32 pages sur papier couché, agrafé, couverture illustrée du tableau de Max Ernst.
Textes d‘Albert Lewin Fine Art and the films et d’Harriet et Sidney Janis Competition and exhibition.
11 artistes participants : Max Ernst (le lauréat) , Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Eugène Berman, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Louis Guglielmi, Horace Pippin, Stanley Spencer, Dorothea Tanning et Abraham Rattner avec pour chacun d’eux, le tableau en compétition, leur photo et leur commentaire.
Membres du jury : Marcel Duchamp, Alfred H. Barr Jr. et Sidney Janis.
Petite faiblesse au niveau du dos.