• ink and gouache on paper, 1941
• inscribed Gordon Onslow Ford and dated 1941 by Andre Breton upper center recto
• image size 9" x 13¾" (22.9 x 34.9 cm.)
• paper size 12" x 16¾" (30.5 x 42.5 cm.)
• Provenance:  Andre Breton, Paris

This work is signed and dated in the hand of Andre Breton.

Breton, along with many of his fellow Surrealists, left Paris and went south to Marseilles in hopes of securing visas and fleeing France as World War II ravaged Europe. It was there that the Jeu de Marseilles was conceived and created, with participants including Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Andre Masson, and Wifredo Lam. Breton, with his wife and daughter, finally arrived in New York in June of 1941 where he was met by Kay Sage, Yves Tanguy, and Stanley William Hayter. He continued to collect additional card designs from artists he encountered in New York although the final published version of the deck utilized only designs created by the original Marseilles participants.