Max Ernst | Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA/Tate Gallery, 1961 | Richard Hamilton, Gordon House catalogue design

Max Ernst | Institute of Contemporary Arts/Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue, 1961.

Catalogue produced by the ICA for a party to celebrate Max Ernst: “On the occasion of the Max Ernst Exhibition, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Institute of Contemporary Arts honours Max Ernst by a party at the Tate Gallery, by the kind permission of the trustees.”


Includes separate 6-page concertina-fold catalogue listing for the exhibition. 

Catalogue designed by Richard Hamilton and Gordon House.

Includes an essay by Toni del Renzio on Max Ernst, and another by Herbert Read on the future of the ICA.


Fair condition. Tea/coffee stain to front cover, signs of wear in keeping with the age including fading and marks to cover. Pencil annotations on outer back cover. Two stamps to page 1; “The Mayor Gallery, South Molton Street” and “The Mayor Gallery Cork Street”. Some damage to spine. Slightly bumped bottom right corner. 

18cm x 18cm
 (+ loose insert, 18cm x 15.5cm).

36 pages
+ 6-page insert.

Printed mono throughout, with illustrations.