Le Jeu de Marseille playing cards, 1983 edition
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1983
The Jeu de Marseille is a deck of playing cards inspired by the Tarot de Marseille, originally created in 1941 by Surrealist artists residing at the Villa Air-Bel in Marseille.
This specific set is the 1983 edition published by André Dimanche. The deck features artistic contributions from notable Surrealist figures including André Breton, Wifredo Lam, Max Ernst, Oscar Dominguez, Victor Brauner, and Jacques Hérold. The cards are notable for their unique iconography and design, which diverge from traditional card imagery. The original game was famously published in the VVV magazine in 1943 and was also featured in the New York Museum of Modern Art.
This 1983 reproduction serves as a collectible continuation of the Surrealist legacy, presenting the original artistic visions in a portable card format measuring 9 x 6 cm.
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions
- 9 x 6 cm
Design
- Artists
- ["André Breton", "Wifredo Lam", "Max Ernst", "Oscar Dominguez", "Victor Brauner", "Jacques Hérold"]
Identification
- Source note
- Described from a single auction-house listing published on Invaluable (reproduced with Invaluable's permission). Details apply to that one example; other examples of the type may differ, and the listing is supplementary evidence, not authentication.
- Maker named in listing
- André Dimanche
Catalogue references
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