BONA, illustrator. (SURREALISM). ~ Coup de Semonce. [Paris, 25 March 1957].
Folding broadside, folio (325 × 250 mm), pp. [4], decorative title with design by Bona. Transverse fold, slight creasing, small paper dent/impression to the image. Very good.
A rare surrealist broadside, subscribed by André Breton, Bona and André Pieyre de Mandiargues among 29 others, against and exhibition and conference held at the Galerie Kléber by the right wing abstract artists Georges Mathieu and Simon Hantaï. The event, known as Les Ceremonies commemorated the Catholic Inquisition’s 1277 condemnation for heresy of the teachings of the Aristotelian scholar Siger de Brabant at the University of Paris, whereby the church attempted to halt the revival of classical thought in the Middle Ages. The Surrealists, shocked by the religious and deliberately reactionary nature of this event, responded with this broadside Coup de Semonce (’Warning Shot’) illustrated by Bona.