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Guillaume APOLLINAIRE

Méditations esthétiques. Les Peintres cubistes

Eugène Figuière & Cie, Paris 1913, 12x19cm, broché sous chemise-étui.

Edition on current paper, it was shot in Japan 10 major papers. Precious autograph dedication signed by the author "A André Salmon, who goes in the middle of Hamlets pale / flute playing on the air of madness. His friend and admirer, Guillaume Apollinaire." These lines are taken from his "Poem read at the wedding of Andre Salmon" composed in 1909 and still unpublished at the release of "aesthetic Meditations" in March 1913 (it did not appear until April as Alcohol). Our copy is presented in shirt-sleeve half chocolate morocco, gilt back foot in "exemplary Andre Salmon" dishes covered with handmade paper, lined the same morocco case, all signed workshops Boichot mention. Back again, ready restored and lined with Japanese paper, first dish with a small ink stain left by Guillaume Apollinaire in head and ink from landfills and sending a cigarette burn on the front cover and foot of the first pages without interference with the text. First and last leaves marginally restored and lined with Japanese paper. The two poets met in 1903 at the Cave of the Golden Sun, on the edge of their artistic lives. An unbreakable friendship is born between the two men became inseparable until the death of Apollinaire. Together, they lead the bohemian life, write plays, based ephemeral journals (The Feast of Aesop, the Immoraliste Review, Modern Letters), meet other artists including a young Spanish painter newly arrived Pablo Picasso . Early in the century, advocates of Cubism boil down to a handful of criticisms Apollinaire and Salmon are the principal representatives. By 1905, Salmon had mentioned the talent of Picasso in "Literary Review Paris and Champagne." After numerous articles in the Gil Blas and Paris-Journal he takes art columns he published in 1912 "The Young French Painting", a book centered on a "Anecdotal History of Cubism" which presents Picasso as the hero of the art again. In 1916, he organized the exhibition will present for the first time the "Demoiselles d'Avignon" which followed the implementation and it is named. Similarly, Apollinaire multiplies positions through his columns and prefaces including the catalog of the exhibition Circle of modern art at Le Havre, entitled "The Three Virtues plastic," he kept on introducing "meditations aesthetic ". Figuière However, unbeknownst to Apollinaire, highlights the subtitle "cubist painters" and this timely change will determine the acceptance of the work. So instead of a simple "meditation", the text acquires, for readers, the true status of Cubism Manifesto and as such raises the sometimes violent reactions (even more from the avant-garde circles and opponents natural to modern painting). But it becomes, at the same time, one of the earliest writings on the importance of Cubism, "defining the specific characteristics of the new art movement: the" climate "spiritual, its ambitions, its historical necessity" and its international reach. Since its release, the book was favorably reviewed in Germany, Sweden, Italy, translated partly in Russian and English, with Picabia, broadcast across the Atlantic at Brentano's. A month later, Apollinaire was published Alcohols, with a cubist portrait frontispiece of the author by Picasso. Illustrated book of 46 portraits and reproductions of cubist works. Precious and beautiful dedication Apollinaire to his best friend on a symbolic text of their joint commitment.

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