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on the fine arts
Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
232
MUCI
[Mucous.] Pentruca nu purtam fuduliile in tabachera ne intitulam Grupul Mucosilor. No. 1, Feb. 7, 1932 (all published). Editors: Aurel Baranga, S. Perahim, Gherasim Luca, Paul Paun. Texts by Baranga, Luca, Paun, Pals and Goldstein. 3 illus., including 2 erotic surrealist drawings by Perahim. Broadside folio, folding to oblong 4to, with tipped-on printed cover flap. Edition of 200 copies. A fine copy of this Rumanian surrealist review. Extremely rare.
Bucharest, 1932. $2,000.00
Ilk K381; Dokumentations-Bibliothek III.146d
233
NAUM, GELLU
Castelul Orbilor. 83, (9)pp. Sm. 8vo. Wraps. D.j. (lightly rubbed). One of 100 numbered copies on white vélin, from the limited edition of 300 in all.
Bucuresti (Colectia Suprarealista), 1946. $1,200.00
Ilk K477
234
NAUM, GELLU
Teribilul Interzis. Frontispiciu de Paul Paun. 95, (3)pp. Frontis. by Paun, printed in blue. Wraps. (light wear). One of 300 numbered copies on vélin.
Bucuresti (Colectia Suprarealista), 1945. $1,200.00
Ilk K476, illus. p. 104
235
NAUM, GELLU
Vasco de Gama. Cu un desen de Jack Hérold. 59, (3)pp. 1 full-page line-drawn illus. by Jacques Hérold. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. Edition limited to 150 unnumbered copies on vélin. Intermittent pencilled underlining. Of great rarity.
Bucuresti, 1940. $1,800.00
Ilk K473, illus. p. 102
236
NÉON
Editors: S. Alexandrian, J. Heisler, V. Hérold, S. Rodanski, C. Tarnaud (Nos. 1-3); J.L. Bédouin, A. Breton, P. Demarne, J. Heisler, B. Péret (Nos. 4-5). Nos. 1-5, Janvier 1948 - Mai 1949 (all published). (4)pp. per issue. Tabloid large folio. Glassine covers. The subtitle for Nos. 1-3 (explaining the title as a circular acronym) is given as "N’être rien, Etre tout, Ouvrir l’être, Néant, Oubli, Etre," whereas Nos. 4-5 give this as "Naviguer, Éveiller, Occulter, Nacce, Oiseau, Étui." Texts by Breton, Mabille, Péret, Gracq, Alexandrian, Lecomte, Pastoureau, Demarne, Jouffroy, Lecomte, G. Davis, Nadeau, et al. Illus. by Hérold, Toyen, Brauner, Matta, Styrsky, Donati, Jean, Lam, Miró, Riopelle and others. "Plutôt qu’une revue, ‘Néon,’ la première publication du groupe surréaliste au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, est un mince journal imprimé en fac-similé qui reflète l’impécuniosité de l’époque. Conçue par le poète tcheque Jindrich Heisler, la mise-en-page est perturbée par les illustrations de Brauner, Hérold, Lam ou Toyen, qui rejettent les textes dans les marges, leur laissant assez de place toutefois pour affirmer que rien n’est joué encore pour les surréalistes, qui veulent être ‘des prismes à réflexion totale pour toutes les lumières, surtout celles qui leur sont encore inconnues’" (Biro/Passeron). Ades compares the "all-over dramatic design" to some of de Zayas’s work in ‘291.’ "The second issue was designed by Kiesler, with the help of Magloire Saint-Aude, a Martinique poet, Brauner, Hérold and Toyen, with a sinuous black serpent form running through all four pages." Regular copies of "Néon" are printed on newsprint, and are usually found in browned and embrittled condition. In this set, three of the five issues (Nos. 2, 3 and 5) are from the "tirage demi-luxe," of 20 numbered copies, printed on fine heavy stock (but not accompanied by chemises or original drawings). The entire run is in excellent condition, rare thus.
Paris, 1948-1949. $2,500.00
Ades p. 431; Gershman p. 51; Biro/Passeron p. 299; Reynolds p. 115f.; Nadeau p. 328f.; Milano p. 580f.; Sheringham Ab407
237
NISIPEANU, CONSTANTIN
Femeia de Aer. Un poem si doua desene. 63, (1)pp. 2 full-page line-drawn illus. Folio. Wraps. Édition de tête: one of 26 hand-lettered copies from the limited edition of 150 in all, printed on pink "Fraga" paper. Very rare.
[Bucharest], 1943. $3,000.00
Ilk K483, illus. p. 103
238
NISIPEANU, CONSTANTIN
Metamorfoze. Poeme. 57, (5)pp. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. An unnumbered copy of 200 numbered copies on vélin, from the limited edition of 226. Pencilled annotations on front flyleaf.
Bucuresti (Editura UNU), 1934. $1,600.00
Ilk K481
239
NISIPEANU, CONSTANTIN
Spre tara inchisa in diamant. (Colectia UNU. No. 2.) 31, (1)pp. Wraps. Unnumbered edition of 199 copies, printed on pale green stock.
Bucuresti (Editura UNU), 1937. $1,500.00
Ilk K482
240
(NOVEMBERGRUPPE)
An alle Künstler! Mit literarischen Beiträgen von: Joh. R. Becher, Ludwig Meidner, Bernhard Kellermann, Max Pechstein, Walter Hasenclever, Kurt Eisner, Konrad Haenisch, Kurt Erich Meurer, Paul Zech. Mit Bildbeiträgen von: Max Pechstein, César Klein, [Hans] Richter-Berlin, Lyonel Feininger, Milly Steger, Georg Tappert. 47, (1)pp. 5 illus. Lrg. 8vo. Dec. wraps., with cover design by Max Pechstein printed in red and black. The revolutionary pamphlet issued by members of the Novembergruppe shortly after its founding in 1919, envisioning a close alliance between the expressionist artists and the socialist state, and new bonds between the artist and artisan. A fine copy.
Berlin [Willi Simon], 1919. $350.00
Raabe 137; Perkins 125; Lang 265; Rifkind 368A; Marbach 119.4; Spalek 658
241
(NOVEMBERGRUPPE) Berlin. Grosse Berliner Kunstaustellung.
Führer durch die Abteilung der Novembergruppe Kunstausstellung Berlin, 1921. 16pp. Printed wraps. Most of the publication is given over to Raoul Hausmann’s introductory essay, "Die neue Kunst," dated May 1921, also published in "Die Aktion." This is followed by a room-by-room tour of the Novembergruppe section of the exhibition, discussing the pictures while deliberately omitting the names of the artists, in keeping with the current ideology of the movement. Hausmann, along with Hannah Höch and other Dadaist members, was by this time distancing himself from the group, as its original radicalism receded. The complete text is published in the catalogue of the Hausmann exhibition at IVAM and elsewhere, 1994.
Berlin, 1921. $600.00