Description

FIRST EDITION.

ONE OF 12 NUMBERED COPIES ON ORANGE PAPER, the only edition signed by the author.

Total limited edition of 125 copies: 10 on Hollande, 15 on laid paper  d' Arches, 100 ex. on Lafuma vellum, and 37 ex. hors commerce distributed as follows: 12 ex. on orange paper signed by the author and 25 lettered).

Written in 1916, The Emperor of Chinawas not staged for the first time until 1925. It is considered to be the first Dadaist play.  The Dumb Serin  was written in 1920 and staged the same year by André Breton and Tristan Tzara at the Dada evening on 27 March 1920 (Au sans Pareil, n°16) 

This print is very rare but also very beautiful on coloured paper.