Henri LAURENS

First edition, 15 issues in 15 separate installments, abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. Complete with the special issue "Hommage à Picasso" (No. 3, 1930) and the index for the year 1929, published as a separate 8-page stapled booklet.

Some spines slightly faded not affecting the text, occasional minor foxing along the margins of certain covers.

Complete series of this legendary and non-conformist magazine founded by Georges Bataille, which gave voice to "fields of art and knowledge unrecognized by official culture or considered controversial: popular literature, jazz, cabaret, advertising, everyday life" (Annie Pirabot), along with so-called primitive art and objects.

Autograph note dated and signed by Henri Laurens, 7 lines in black ink, addressed to a Mr Fardel, most likely Gildas Fardel, the prominent art collector.

A handsome example.

Henri Laurens writes to postpone their appointment, as he will not be at his studio at the agreed time.

A major collector of abstract art, Gildas Fardel donated part of his collection to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes in 1958.

 

Edition illustrated with 14 original woodcuts by Henri Laurens, one of 125 numbered copies on Montval laid paper, the only issue after 25 Japan or China.
Fine copy despite minor worming of no consequence to the first endpapers and half-title page.

First edition.
Contributions by P. Reverdy, T. Tzara, M. Leiris, G. Limbour, J. Doucet...
Iconography and reproductions of works by H. Laurens.
Fine copy complete with its folded cover very slightly and marginally faded.