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Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
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PARIS. Union Des Artistes Russes.
Grand bal des artistes travesti/transmental, Salle Bullier, 23 février 1923. Ticket. Broadside, in oblong 4to., printed on recto in orange and dark umber with a design by Larionov, the left a bold abstraction incorporating a stylized figure, the right a text in his hand. Symmetrically designed, probably with the idea that it would be folded, this "ticket" measures more than 8x11 inches. A fine example.
Paris, 1923. $500.00
253
PARIS. Union Des Artistes Russes.
Grand Bal des Artistes Travesti/Transmental. Salle Bullier, 23 février 1923. Programme. (16)pp. Illustrations and ornaments by Picasso, Ferat, Gris, Derain, Goncharova, Gomez de la Serna and others. Sm. folio. Dec self-wraps., with cover illustration by Férat. Printed on heavy wove paper by François Bernouard. Following the extensive listings of events and contributors, there are poems, mostly reproduced in manuscript, by Huidobro, Tzara, Soupault, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Malcolm Cowley, Nicolas Beauduin and others. One of the Picasso plates is subtly handcolored (as issued) in blue and yellow pastel.
Paris, 1923. $650.00
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PAUN, PAUL
Marea Palida. 20, (8)pp. Wraps. Edition limited to 200 hand-numbered copies. Cover a little stained; one small marginal tear.
Bucuresti (Colectia Suprarealista), 1945. $950.00
Ilk K497
255
PAUN, PAUL
Plamanul Salbatec. Cu 2 guase de S. Perahim. 35, (3)pp. 2 tipped-in plates of gouaches by Perahim. Polished black wraps. with mounted title panel. Edition of 500 unnumbered copies.
Bucuresti ("Bucovina"), 1939. $1,600.00
Ilk K496, illus. p. 101
256
(PAUN) Teodorescu, Virgil
Butelia de Leyda. Cu patru lovaje si un brevet lovaj de Paul Paun. 4 halftone plates of drawings by Paun. Loosely inserted, as issued: Paul Paun: "Brevet Lovaj." (4)pp. (single sheet of pink stock, folding). 12mo. Sm. 8vo. Wraps. One of 274 numbered copies on vélin matte, from the limited edition of 307.
Bucuresti (Colectia Suprarealista), 1945. $1,200.00
Ilk K505
257
(PECHSTEIN) Fechter, Paul
Das graphische Werk Max Pechsteins. xiii, (1), 174, (4)pp. 1 original lithograph as frontis. ("Selbstporträt," 1920; Fechter L225; Krüger L366). Prof. illus. (tipped-in plates). 4to. Orig. dec. boards, 1/4 calf, the covers printed in color with a design by the artist. Vorzugsausgabe: one of 75 roman-numeraled copies on cream laid paper, with four original prints by Pechstein hors texte: frontispiece lithograph ("Selbstporträt," 1920; Krüger L366); and one etching ("Musiker [Dr. Freundlich]," Krüger R109), one woodcut ("Fischerhaus auf Nidden," Krüger H232) and one further lithograph ("Fischerköpfe," Krüger L368). Apart from this Vorzugsausgabe, there were 400 regular copies of the book (with only one original print, the frontispiece lithograph) and a Luxusausgabe of 25 copies containing 10 original prints. All prints in both the Vorzugsausgabe and the Luxusausgabe were supposed to have been signed in pencil, but in the present copy--just as in the copy catalogued by Ralph Jentsch for the Berlin exhibition "Illustrierte Bücher des deutschen Expressionismus"--the prints are unsigned. In addition to the foregoing, the volume is extravagantly decorated throughout with lettrines, head- and tail-pieces, and other illustrations by Pechstein, including full-page drawings to open each section of the catalogue. Beautifully printed and designed, this is a classic instance of the German luxury catalogue raisonné, similar to Schiefler’s catalogues for Nolde and Kircher, also illustrated with original prints. Backstrip slightly rubbed; a splendid copy. Extremely rare.
Berlin (Fritz Gurlitt), 1921. $3,750.00
Jentsch, Ralph: Illustrierte Bücher des deutschen Expressionismus (1989), 106; Riggs p. 614; Spalek 4009
258
PENROSE, ROLAND
The Road is Wider than Long. An image diary from the Balkans, July-August 1938. (Series of Surrealist Poetry edited by E.L.T. Mesens. No. 1.) (50)pp. 39 halftone photographs and 1 line-drawn illus. in text. Sm. 4to. Balsa-wood veneer over boards, printed in blue (slightly dusty). One of 500 hand-numbered copies on Art paper, from the limited edition of 510 in all. One of the most elegant and advanced of all British Surrealist publications, with interesting prefigurations of Long and Finlay. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf "To Ronald/ Xmas 1942/ and all best wishes/ Roland," accompanied by a clipped and mounted photograph of a young Balkan woman in traditional dress, smiling shyly.
London (London Gallery Editions), 1939. $1,500.00
Biro/Passeron p. 325, no. 2254; Cf. Ades 14.67
259
(PERAHIM) Faur, Dan
Bust. Un portret si coperta de S. Perahim. 30, (2)pp. 2 original linocuts by Perahim, one as frontispiece (on coated stock, tipped-in before the title), and one on the front cover. Lrg. 8vo. Dec. wraps. Edition limited to 150 hand-numbered copies, the text printed on grey paper. A little light wear, pinhole at top edge. Very rare.
[Bucharest] (Editura UNU), 1930. $2,500.00
Ilk K448, illus. p. 92
260
PERISZKOP. Aprilis 1925
Szerkeszti: Szántó Gyögy. (4), 40, (4)pp., 20 plates with 50 halftone illus. Line-drawn illus. throughout the text. Lrg. 4to. Dec. wraps. Five issues in all were published of this excessively rare and richly interesting avant-garde review. Though the text is in Hungarian, it was published in Rumania; Michael Ilk plans to include it in the second edition of his bibliography of the Rumanian avant-garde. Referring to offshoots of "Ma" in Eastern Europe, Pál Deréky notes "Equally interesting are the less obvious but nonetheless demonstrable connections between ‘Ma’ in Vienna and the avant-garde journals ‘Periskóp’ and ‘Genius’ published in Arad [Transylania Romania] in 1925 and 1926" (Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930). Illustrations in this issue include work by Apollinaire (on Rousseau), Bortnyik, Archipenko, Moholy-Nagy, Léger, Chagall, Hartwig, Kokoschka, Grosz, et al. Wraps. rebacked and restored; a little foxed, otherwise fine.
[Timisoara, Rumania], 1925. $1,250.00
Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002), p. 170; Dokumentations-Bibliothek III.182
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PERISZKOP. Junius-Julius 1925
Szerkeszti: Szántó Gyögy.. (4), 48, (4)pp., 16 plates with 37 halftone illus. Prof. illus. throughout the text. Lrg. 4to. Dec. wraps. Contents of this issue include texts by Bartok, Doesburg, Huidobro, Tzara, Goll, Cocteau, et al.; illus. after Brancusi, Apollinaire (a Hungarian-language manuscript translation of a calligram), Grosz, Goncharova; photographs of the dadaists. Wraps., rebacked and restored; otherwise fine.
[Timisoara, Rumania], 1925. $1,250.00
Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002), p. 170; cf. Dokumentations-Bibliothek III.182