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on the fine arts
Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
92
DYN
The review of modern art. Published and edited by Wolfgang Paalen. Nos. 1-6 in 5 issues (all published). Prof. illus. 4to. Orig. wraps. One of the most significant American and exile surrealist periodicals, emphasizing the mythic and oneiric heritage of Amerindian culture as well as current developments in the international avant-garde community. Contributions by Wolfgang Paalen (and with original woodcuts by him), César Moro, Henry Miller, Valentine Penrose, Anais Nin, Robert Motherwell, Alexander Calder, Miguel Covarrubias, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and others. Intermittent light wear; wrappers of no. 6 neatly split at backstrip. Complete sets are now rare.
Coyoacan (Mexico), 1942-1944. $1,200.00
Gershman p. 49; Milano p. 576f.; Ades p. 386; Nadeau p. 331
93
ÉLUARD, PAUL, et al.
Habitude de la poésie. (Habitude de la Poésie. [0] 1-5.) (16), (24), (16), (16), 916), (16)pp. 12mo. Printed boards. A collection of individual pamphlets, constituting Cahiers 1-5 of the series, bound together by the publisher together with an additional pamphlet by Éluard, the text of a lecture delivered at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London the year before. Contents as follows: Éluard, Paul: L’évidence poétique; Penrose, Valentine: Poèmes (1. cahier); Marc, Fernand: Autres chansons (2. cahier); Lévis-Mano, Guy: Crâne sans lois (3. cahier); Le Louet, Jean: Ceci passe (4. cahier); Lannes, Roger: La nuit quand même (5. cahier). Printed on variously colored stocks.
Paris (G.L.M.), 1937. $375.00
GLM 121-126
94
(ERNST) Paris. Galerie van Leer.
Exposition MAX ERNST du 10 mars au 24 mars 1926. (12)pp. 5 full-page plates in text. 4to. Self-wraps. Glassine d.j. Catalogue of 48 paintings, sculpture and drawings, collages and frottages, from the collections of Eluard, Breton and others; "in lieu of the usual sycophantic preface" (as Ernst later put it), the catalogue includes poems by Eluard, Péret and Desnos. A handsome publication, almost more an album than a catalogue. A fine copy.
Paris, 1926. $750.00
Hugues/Poupard-Lieussou 171; Cf. Russell, John: Max Ernst, Life and Work, p. 87
95
ERNST, MAX & ELUARD, PAUL
Misfortunes of the Immortals. Translated by Hugh Chisholm. 44, (10)pp. 22 full-page illus. 4to. Dec. boards. Plain pink d.j. Edition limited to 610 copies. "This edition is further augmented by Three drawings Twenty Years After. The Misfortunes of the Immortals was first published in Paris in 1920, originally revealed in French by Paul Eluard and Max Ernst, and now translated into English by Hugh Chisholm. This edition has been designed and published by Caresse Crosby, handset in Spartan type twelve point and printed at the Gemor Press in the city of New York, March 1943." Though not noted internally, this copy derives from the library of Julien Levy.
New York (Black Sun Press), 1943. $750.00
Hugues/Poupard-Lieussou 18; Spies 555-557
96
ERNST, MAX & PÉRET, BENJAMIN.
La brebis galante. 124pp. 3 original color etchings with aquatint (including title) and 22 full-page illustrations, of which 18 colored by hand in pochoir. Cul-de-lampe, lettrines. 4to. Dec. wraps. (original color lithograph). One of 300 numbered copies on grand vélin d’Arches from the limited edition of 316. "The book can in a way be considered the most representative Surrealist art form, and the manner in which it evolved adds one more paradox. Volumes that we consider masterpieces of this Janus-faced genre, such as Péret and Ernst’s ‘La brebis galante’ or Eluard and Miró’s ‘A toute épreuve’, appeared after World War Two--long after the heyday of surrealism" (Hubert). Short tear in the cover, at foot of backstrip.
Paris (Les Éditions Premières), 1949. $6,000.00
Spies/Leppien 28G; Hugues/Poupard-Lieussou 22; Rainwater 49, p. 113f.; The Artist and the Book 100; Hubert p. 26; Gershman p. 33; Ades 17.57; Reynolds p. 67f.; Villa Stuck 40
97
ERNST, MAX & CHAR, RENÉ
Dent Prompte. (56)pp. 10 full-page original color lithographs. Folio. Portfolio (boards with 1 additional color lithograph by Ernst). Chemise. Slipcase. All contents loose, as issued. One of 240 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches, signed in the justification by Char and Ernst, from the limited edition of 290 in all. Reprising 10 poems from Char's "Dehors la nuit est gouvernée" (1938) where they appeared under the title "Versions"; they were later revised in 1949 omitting (as here) all punctuation.
Paris (Galerie Lucie Weill ), 1969. $4,500.00
Spies/Leppien A19; Quinn p. 434; Lilly 60
98
ESENIN, SERGEI, et al.
Plavil’nia slov [Foundry of Words]. Sergei Esenin, Anatolii Mariengof, Vadim Shershenevich. (46)pp. Printed wraps. (chipped at backstrip). Text printed on roughly textured, fibrous paper. An Imagist anthology, with verse by Esenin, Mariengof’s poetic cycle "Blind Feet," and the first appearance of nine poems by Shershenevich.
Moskva ("Imazhinisty"), 1920. $600.00
Getty 178
99
EX.
A cura di Emilio Villa e di Mario Diacono, e di Gianni Debernardi. No. 1, giugno 1963 (of 4 numbers published in all). (2)pp., 9 separate folding broadsides (some of very large dimensions). Lrg. 4to. Portfolio (brown heavy stock, printed in black and white). All contents loose, as issued. Texts and concrete poems by Diacono, Villa, John Cage ("Conferenza zu qualcosa," 1949), N.F. Simpson and S.M. Martini. Edition estimated at 500 copies.
Roma, 1963. $350.00
100
(FANTIN-LATOUR) Chénier, André
Les bucoliques. Publiées d’après le manuscrit original dans un ordre nouveau par José-Maria de Heredia. [Lithographies hors texte par Fantin-Latour. En-têtes et culs-de-lampe par G. Simoes da Fonseca.] (14), xxxii, 278, (2)pp., 12 original lithographs by Henri Fantin-Latour. 21 vignette illustrations by G. Simoes da Fonseca. Stout lrg. 4to. Publisher’s full polished brown marbled calf, the front cover inset with a superb bronze plaquette by Denys Puech. Slipcase (marbled boards; slightly rubbed at edges). Original wraps. and backstrip bound in, as well as the publisher’s four-page prospectus. One of 150 numbered copies on vélin du Marais, containing two extra suites of all lithographs (including vignettes), each with remarques: one in red, on chine, and the other in black, on japon tissue; from the limited edition of 177 copies in all. The work was published as part of a project to erect a monument to the memory of André Chénier by Denys Puech, represented here in the original bronze plaquette by Puech on the front cover, which shows a nymph mourning over the laurel-wreathed head of the writer, which she clasps to her breast. The plaquette, signed and dated 1904, is in high relief, and in very fine condition. It carries the legend "Pleure, ouvre-lui tes bras, et rends-lui son baiser." The Salon sculptor Denys Puech (1854-1942) is best known for commemorative monuments of this kind, including statues in Paris for Gavarni, Sainte-Beuve and Leconte de Lisle. A brilliant copy, virtually mint.
Paris (Charles Meunier, "Maison du Livre"), 1905. $4,500.00
Bénédite/Hédiard 161-172; Rauch 30; Strachan p. 45; Mahé 84; Carteret IV.102
101
FELIXMÜLLER, CONRAD
Felixmüller Holzschnitte. Preface by Felix Stiemer. Title-page (including list of plates and justification, with text by Stiemer on the verso), 6 original woodcuts, each signed and numbered in pencil in the margin. Additional woodcut illustration (self-portrait) on the title-page. Album size: 400 x 360 mm. (15 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches). Folio. Portfolio (wraps., repeating the woodcut self-portrait). One of 75 numbered copies on cream laid Maschinenpapier, from the limited edition of 100 copies in all. The six woodcut plates date from 1917 and 1918; they are, in sequence: "Geburt" (Söhn 118), "Lazarett" (S. 115), "Mann am Meer" (S. 104), "Der Dichter Walter Rheiner" (S. 105), "--und singen Lautenlieder" (S. 128), and "Auf! Auf! Auf! Mensch hilf Dir selbst" (S. 116). The title-page woodcut is "Titel Selbstportät" (Söhn 148). Some of the prints had also appeared in the Dresden journal "Menschen," founded by Felixmüller in 1917 with Felix Stiemer (publisher of the present album) and Heinrich Schilling. In that year, Felixmüller had organized the Expressionistische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dresden, an anti-war literary and artistic group which met in his studio for discussions, and readings by Raoul Hausmann and Walter Rheiner (whose portrait is included here). A very fine copy, with superb, rich impressions of the woodcuts, and in very fresh condition throughout.
Dresden (Felix Stiemer), 1918. $12,500.00
Söhn 147M; cf. Barron, Stephanie: "Degenerate Art": The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany (Los Angeles, 1991), p. 237f.