• suite of seven original color lithographs and one lithograph on cover, 1950
• each sheet signed in pencil lower right margin recto
• each sheet numbered in pencil lower left margin recto
• total edition of 55 on BFK Rives: hors commerce numbered 1-10, numbered 11-50, and five artist's proofs
• contained in original portfolio with text Pourquoi rester muets? by Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues
• portfolio size 20 3/16" x 13¼" (51 x 33.7 cm.)
• sheet size 19 13/16" x 12 7/8" (50.4 x 32.6 cm.)
• published by Librairie "Le Pas Perdus", Paris
• printed by Desjobert assisted by Maurice Gantner, Paris
• Provenance:  Maurice Gantner and dedicated to him on the tirage
• Literature:  Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium!, New York Public Library, 1992, catalog no. 6, pp. 22-24, 89

...My first lithograph adventure has become a book. An album with seven perils in it. Because to the seven deadly deadly sins I preferred the seven spectral perils, life being more perilous than sinful. The writer [Mandiargues], a good judge of both, naturally agreed. You might say that these interrogate the stone. And the stone, like an oracle, answered sometimes with effects never possible to achieve with other materials...
      -Dorothea Tanning, Hail, Delirium!, 1992, catalog raisonne