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rare and scholarly books
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Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
ars libri ltd.
rare and scholarly books
on the fine arts
Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
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(BRAUNER) Pana, Sasa
Diagrame. Un portret si desene de Victor Brauner. (28)pp. 3 tipped-in plates of line-drawings in text. Lrg. 8vo. Dec. wraps., with portrait by Brauner. Printed d.j. Unstated limited edition ("tiraj restrins"), estimated by Ilk at 150 copies, with text on pale brown wove stock, and the illustrations on cream-colored card. Pana was the founder of "Unu" in 1928. A very fine unopened copy, complete with the dust jacket. Very rare.
[Bucharest] (Editura UNU), 1930. $1,850.00
Ilk K485, illus. p. 89; Biro/Passeron 2164
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(BRAUNER) Pana, Sasa
Sadismul Adevarului. Ilustratil de Victor Brauner, Marcel Iancu, Alfred Jarry, Kapralik, S. Perahim, Picasso, Man Ray, si Jacques Vaché. 287, (1)pp. Numerous illus., including a collage group portrait by Brauner (using photographs by Man Ray), with captioned glassine overlay. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. (lightly foxed). One of 358 hand-numbered copies, from the limited edition of 370. Presentation copy, inscribed by Pana on the half-title, 1965.
Bucharest (Editura UNU), 1936. $3,250.00
Ilk K490, illus. p. 100
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(BRAUNER) Roll, Stephan
Moartea Vie a Eleonorei. Desene de Victor Brauner. (34)pp. 2 tipped-in plates of line drawings in text. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. Unstated limited edition, estimated by Ilk at circa 150 unnumbered copies, the text printed on brown wove stock. Covers a little soiled. Very rare.
[Bucharest] (Editura UNU), 1930. $4,500.00
Ilk K502, illus. p. 89
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(BRAUNER) Voronca, Ilarie
Bratara Noptilor. Cu un desen de Victor Brauner. 80, (2)pp. 1 full-page drawing by Brauner in text. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. Unstated limited edition, estimated by Ilk at circa 150 copies. Losses at base of backstrip and on title-panel on front cover. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title. Very rare.
[Bucarest] ([Editura UNU]), [1929]. $1,850.00
Ilk K520, illus. p. 88
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BRETON, ANDRÉ
Ode à Charles Fourier. (Collection "L’Age d’Or.") 41, (7)pp. Illustrations and typographical ornaments throughout, printed in black (some after ink drawings in pen or brush). 4to. Dec. wraps. One of 750 numbered copies on vélin, from the limited edition of 1025 in all, "dessiné à New-York par Frederick J. Kiesler." One of the most innovative and important publications of the postwar Paris/New York surrealist axis.
Paris (Éditions de la Revue Fontaine), 1947. $350.00
Sheringham Aa381; Gershman p. 9; Ades 17.47; Biro/Passeron 455; Reynolds p. 18
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BRETON, ANDRÉ
Le surréalisme et la peinture. 72, (28)pp., 77 plates. 4to. Later full bottle-green calf. Orig. printed wraps. bound in. First edition, imprinted "S.P." (Service de Presse) on the front wrapper. An historic presentation copy, inscribed "A Giuseppe Ungaretti/ souvenir de l’Hotel des Grands Hommes/ André Breton" on the half-title. Giuseppe Ungaretti, born (like Marinetti) in Alexandria, in 1888, and one of the great Italian poets of the century, was intimately tied to the literary and artistic French avant-garde, beginning with his arrival at the Sorbonne in 1912. The Hôtel des Grands Hommes, in the Place du Panthéon, where Breton and Soupault composed "Les champs magnétiques" in 1919, has always been considered the cradle of Surrealism. A little light wear.
Paris (Librairie Gallimard), 1928. $2,000.00
Sheringham Aa154; Pompidou: Breton p. 186f.; Gershman p. 7; Ades 9.93; Biro/Passeron p. 390; Rubin 138; Milano p. 650; Reynolds p. 18
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BRETON, ANDRÉ
Le surréalisme et la peinture. Suivi de ‘Genèse et perspective artistiques du surréalisme,’ et de fragments inédits. 203, (1)pp., 69 plates (5 color). 4to. Dec. cloth. Breton’s text is brought quite up to date, with commentary on Kahlo, Lam, Donati, Cornell and, especially, Gorky, among others. Martica Sawin notes that to promote this new edition, Enrico Donati, together with Duchamp and Matta, installed a special display in the window of Brentano’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue, including a three-dimensional version of the Magritte on the cover.
New York (Brentano’s), 1945. $300.00
Gershman p. 9; Rubin 138; Milano p. 655; Sawin p. 376
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BRETON, ANDRÉ & DUCHAMP, MARCEL (editors)
Boîte alerte. Missives lascives. L’Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, 1959-1960, s’ouvre le 15 décembre à la Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris. One of 200 copies, from the limited edition of 320 in all. Multiple, housed in green card "mailbox" with lid (285 x 18 mm.) containing: illustrated catalogue of the exhibition (141pp.), with texts by Breton, Bellmer, Ray, Arp, Paz, Carrington, Péret, Lebel, et al; 4 original color lithographs, each signed in pencil, by Miró, Toyen, Max Walter Svanberg and Adrien Dax; signed original etching by Maréchal; double-sided 45rpm record by Benjamin Péret and Joyce Mansour; a cable from Duchamp; 6 color postcards (Bellmer, Dalí, Gorky, Miró, Svanberg and Clovis Trouille); and 9 "missives lascives" (booklets, statements, prints, a stocking), each in varying envelope, from Robert Benayoun, Micheline Bounoure, Alain Joubert, Joyce Mansour, Mimi Parent, Octavio Paz, André Pieyre de Mandiargues and "XXX." Lrg. 4to. Split at foot of box expertly mended.
"On December 15, 1959, the eighth International Surrealist exhibition opened at the Galerie Daniel Cordier in Paris. Like others that had preceded it, this show was organized by André Breton with Duchamp’s assistance. The theme chosen for this show was something close to the mind and heart of its two organizers: EROS, as was emphasized in the typography of the title: ‘Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme.’ For the catalogue, which was to be a green cardboard container shaped like a mail box and labeled ‘Boîte Alerte,’ various artists were asked to submit work that would be reproduced. From New York, Duchamp sent a cable that read ‘Je purule tu purules la chaise purule grace a un rable/ De venerien qui n’a rien de venerable/ rrose’ [‘Everything is pustulating in the conjugation exercise because of an affliction which is more venereal than venerable’], a sentence that was reproduced in facsimile on the same pink paper as the original" (Naumann). Alyce Mahon, in the catalogue of "Surrealism: Desire Unbound," points out that while the design of the box itself is usually credited to Duchamp, the idea of the post box, was later claimed by Mimi Parent as her own invention, and that Duchamp only added the subtitle, "Missives lascives."
Paris, 1959. $7,500.00
Naumann 7.41 (deluxe edition); Gershman p. 10; Rubin 437; Jean Autobiography 175; Milano p. 659; Surrealism: Desire Unbound (London, Tate Gallery, 2001), p. 325 n. 22
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BRETON, ANDRÉ & ELUARD, PAUL (editors) Dictionnaire abrégé du Surréalisme. 75, (1)pp. Prof. illus. Sm. 4to. Dec. wraps., designed by Yves Tanguy. Contributions by L. Aragon, H. Arp, A. Artaud, H. Bellmer, A. Breton, R. Crevel, S. Dalí, R. Desnos, M. Duchamp, P. Eluard, M. Ernst, M. Heine, G. Hugnet, M. Leiris, G. Lély, J. Lély, P. Mabille, Man Ray, E.L.T. Mesens, P. Naville, V. Nezval, P. Nougé, W. Paalen, H. Pastoureau, B. Péret, P. Picasso, J. Prévert, G. Rosey, J. Scutenaire, P. Soupault, T. Tzara. Conceived and developed by Breton and Eluard, the "Dictionnaire" was published in January 1938 on the occasion of the great Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts. "[Ce] document demeurent, quarante ans après sa parution, un miroir exemplaire de l’illumination surréaliste à la fin des années trente. A nôtre époque de slogans et d’explications simplistes, son pouvoir éclairant, par contraste, n’a fait que grandir. Il est également significatif que le premier ‘dictionnaire du Surréalisme’ ait été écrit par les surréalistes eux-mêmes" (Biro/Passeron). A fresh copy.
Paris (Galerie Beaux-Arts), 1938. $650.00
Biro/Passeron p. 130, and no. 917; Gershman p. 8; Rubin 141; Reynolds p. 36
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BRETON, ANDRÉ, et al.
Violette Nozières. Par André Breton, René Char, Paul Eluard, Maurice Henry, E.L.T. Mesens, César Moro, Benjamin Péret, Guy Rosey, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, René Magritte, Marcel Jean, Hans Arp, Alberto Giacometti. 41, (5)pp. 8 full-page illus. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. One of 2000 unnumbered copies on vélin, from the edition of 2020. Front cover photograph by Hans Bellmer. A collective homage in verse and image by the surrealists in defense of the young parricide Violette Nozières, whose case at the time was the subject of violent political opinion. Though not noted internally, this copy derives from the library of Julien Levy. Covers slightly chipped and worn.
Bruxelles (Nicolas Flamel), 1933. $700.00
Sheringham Ac214; Ades 13.31; Biro/Passeron p. 424; Andel Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950 nos. 409, 433
