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Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
322
URMUZ.
Algazy & Grummer. [Cu o pagina manuscris si o fotografie a autorului. Editie facuta de Sasa Pana. ] 47, (1)pp. 2 halftone illus. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. Edition limited to 250 copies on vélin matte.
Bucuresti (Editura UNU), 1930. $1,800.00
Ilk K514
323
L’USAGE DE LA PAROLE
Revue littéraire paraissant tous les deux mois sous la direction de Georges Hugnet. Ire année, nos. 1-3, décembre 1939 - avril 1940 (all published). 48pp. Prof. illus. Lrg. 4to. Dec. self-wraps., with cover drawings by Man Ray, Ernst and Miró. Texts by Éluard, Arp, Savinio, Parrot, Hugnet, Bousquet, Neruda, Bachelard, Duchamp, Carrington, Tzara, Dalí, Baron, Reverdy, Wahl, Picabia, et al.; illustrations, vignettes and lettrines by Man Ray, Carrington, Miró, Picasso, Chagall, Magritte and others. Planned as an adjunct to "Cahiers d’art" for the year 1940, "L’usage de la parole" was announced by Zervos as a means of staying in closer contact with the embattled contemporary art community during the war. No. 1 slightly dusty, 2-3 very fine.
Paris (Éditions Cahiers d’Art), 1939-1940. $650.00
Gershman 54; Admussen 228; cf. Chevrefils-Desbiolles p. 148; Reynolds 126
324
VACHÉ, JACQUES
Lettres de guerre. Avec un dessin de l’auteur et une introduction par André Breton. (Collection de Littérature. III. ) 32, (6)pp. Frontispiece by Vaché. Printed wraps. One of 960 numbered copies on vélin bouffant, from the limited edition of 1000. Letters from the front by the late Jacques Vaché, a suicide from opium overdose. Breton, who admired him for his supreme detachment, cynicism and Jarryesque sense of the absurd, maintained that Vaché had left an indelible imprint on Surrealism. The letters were serialized concurrently in the June-September issues of "Littérature." This is one of Breton’s earliest book appearances. A little light foxing.
Paris (Au Sans Pareil), 1919. $350.00
Sheringham Ac26; Pompidou Breton p. 95; Gershman p. 45; Biro/Passeron 2965; Ades 8.59; Sanouillet 208
325
VARIÉTÉS
Revue mensuelle illustrée de l’esprit contemporain. Directeur: P.-G. van Hecke. Secrétaire: Paul Nayaert. Vol. I, no.1- Vol. II, no. 12, May 15, 1928-April 15, 1930; plus Numéro hors série, June 1929 (all published). 25 issues, bound in 4 vols. (apart from the final issue). Prof. illus., with numerous figs. and hors-texte plates. 4to. Vols. I-II bound in 4 vols. (boards, 1/4 cloth, mounted with original wraps.; other wraps. bound in); Numéro hors-série unbound, in the original wraps. Texts by Ostayen, Fierens, Ensor, de Ridder, Mac Orlan, Soupault, Vlaminck, Tzara, Mesens, Eluard, Giono, Lurçat, Michaux, Malraux, Grosz, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Léger, Prinzhorn, Babel, Ehrenbourg, Maiakovsky, et al; illustrations by and after Arp, Cocteau, Magritte, Zadkine, Miró, Lhote, Ensor, Atget, Krull, Lotar, Léger, Seuphor, and with many film stills, documentation of African sculpture, etc. The important final number, published hors série, is devoted to "le Surréalisme en 1929" with texts by Freud, Crevel, Eluard, Nougé, Unik, Péret, Sadoul, Desnos, Mesens, Queneau, Aragon and Breton, and many documentary illustrations. A fine run.
Bruxelles (Éditions Variétés), 1928-1930. $3,500.00
Ades 9.75; Gershman p. 54; Admussen 229; Biro/Passeron p. 422
326
VASARI, RUGGERO
L’angoscia delle macchine. Sintesi tragica in tre tempi. Seconda edizione. xx, 72, (2)pp. 1 plate. Wraps. Cover designed by Ivo Pannaggi. Loosely inserted: vintage photograph in postcard format (115mm. x 150 mm) of Prampolini’s bust of the author.
Torino (Edizioni Rinascimento), 1925. $300.00
Salaris p. 71
327
VIEW
"Through the eyes of poets." Charles Henri Ford, editor. Series I, No. 1 - Series VII, No. 3, October 1940 - Spring 1947 (all published), lacking two issues: Series I, Nos. 1 and 2. 30 physical issues. Prof. illus. Format varies: Series I in tabloid folio; Series II in sm. 4to.; Series III-VII in lrg. 4to. Series I in self-wraps.; Series II-VII in dec. wraps. Contributions by N. Calas, P. Tyler, W. Stevens, A. Breton, A. Masson, K. Seligmann, P. Mabille, J. Cornell, L. Carrington, R. Melville, H. Miller, H. and S. Janis, J. Levy, B. Péret, H. Rosenberg, C.H. Ford, W.C. Williams, Man Ray, K. Burke, L. Abel, D. de Rougement, and many others. Cover designs by Ernst, Tchelitchew, Tanguy, Seligmann, Ray, Masson, Calder, O’Keeffe, Léger, Francés, Duchamp, Lam, Hirschfeld, L. Kelly, Tunnard, Fini, Hélion, Noguchi and Magritte. Special issues are devoted to Surrealism, Ernst, Tchelitchew/Tanguy, "Vertigo," "Americana Fantastica" (designed by Joseph Cornell), and Marcel Duchamp (designed by the artist).
"Among the many literary and art reviews which sprang up in the United States during the last war, it was certainly ‘View’ which--although never in any way an ‘official’ organ of the movement--provides the most striking evidence of the gradual penetration of American intellectual life by the ideas and themes of Surrealism" (Marcel Jean). "When Breton reached New York, he found ‘View,’ an avant-garde literary magazine edited by Charles-Henri Ford, most sympathetic to the surrealists. One of its regular contributors, Nicolas Calas, in particular, was to become a close friend of Breton, and edited the special surrealist number October/November 1941, which contained an interview with Breton by Charles-Henri Ford, and contributions by Masson, Georges Henein (from Cairo), Seligmann, Ernst (‘The Hundred Headless Woman’) and Benjamin Péret, and communications from surrealists in America and abroad. Breton was asked the memorable question, had he ever dreamed of Hitler, and then his impressions of New York, in which he reveals an interest in flora and especially in the butterflies of the surrounding countryside, rather than the skyscrapers of New York" (Ades).
Copies of the earliest issues in the first Series are of great rarity; this set, lacking only Nos. 1-2, is remarkably near complete. It is also accompanied by three rare broadside numbers of "View Poets," issued as supplements to the first Series: No. 1 (Salvador Novo, Paul Eaton Reeve), No. 2 (Maurice Blanchard, Owen Dodson), and No. 4 (Huidobro, Merton,Chishom, Kuroda, et al).
New York, 1941-1947. $5,000.00
Ades pp. 375, 383ff.; Gershman p. 54; Rubin 482; Jean p, 318; Reynolds p. 126
328
VORDEMBERGE-GILDEWART [FRIEDRICH]
Époque néerlandaise. Préface: Jean Arp. (Collection "Éditions Duwaer." 2.) (36)pp., 25 tipped-in plates (12 color; several folding). 17 illus. hors texte. Sm. folio. Portfolio: signatures loose, as issued. Wraps. One of 200 hand-numbered copies, from the limited edition of 300. Typography by the artist. Texts by Vordemberge-Gildewart (including his significant "abstrakt-konkret-absolut"), Ozenfant, Vantongerloo, Van Doesburg and others, in German, French and English. Fine copy. Very scarce.
Amsterdam (Éditions Duwaer), 1949. $450.00
329
VORONCA, ILARIE
Act de prezenta. 86, (2)pp. Wraps. Unstated limited edition, estimated by Ilk at fewer than 250 copies. A bit worn; lacking front flyleaf, last leaf stuck to inside back cover.
[Bucarest] (Colectia "Carte cu Semne"), 1932. $1,500.00
Ilk K526
330
VORONCA, ILARIE
A doua lumina. 123, (5)pp. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. (light wear). Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Among the pieces included are sensitive and poetic studies of M.H. Maxy and Victor Brauner.
Bucuresti (Editur UNU), 1930. $1,800.00
Ilk K522, illus. p. 91; Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930, p. 708ff.
331
VORONCA, ILARIE
Incantatii. Poeme. Cu un portret inedit de Milita Petrascu. 107, (7)pp. Frontis. portrait drawing by Petrascu. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. Unstated limited edition, estimated by Ilk at circa 300 copies, apart from the édition de tête of 66 signed copies.
Bucuresti (Editura "Cultura Nationala"), 1931. $1,500.00
Ilk K524