La bête noire N°1-8, collection complète

First edition of this review directed by Maurice Raynal and Efstrathios Tériade, and illustrated by Georges Braque, Balthus, Roger Vitrac. The collection is complete with eight issues published between April 1935 and February 1936. Joints, three newsletter subscriptions to the magazine accompanied by a humorous text.
Folds, marginal tears.
A rare complete collection of The Black Beast, an artistic and literary magazine created by the writers Maurice Raynal and Michel Leiris. It was conceived as an attempt at intellectual counter-attack to the rise of fascism in France, awakened by the Parisian demonstrations of February 1934 . The magazine was baptized by the rich banker Marcel Moré, friend of Max Jacob, Antonin Artaud, and Georges Bataille - and will also benefit from his financial support.
The Black Beast was placed under the direction of Maurice Raynal, exegete of pictorial abstraction, friend of Cubists and author of monographs on Fernand Leger, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Ossip Zadkine. During the 1920s, he wrote under the pseudonym "The Two Blind" with Efstrathios Tériade, art critic of Greek origin and artistic director of the first nine deliveries of the luxurious magazine Minotaur founded by Albert Skira. Moving away from the surrealists, Tériade left the magazine to direct La Bête noire alongside Maurice Raynal between 1935 and 1936. The adventure of La Bête Noire completed, Teriade was a great success with his art magazine Verve and his illustrated books made in collaboration with Picasso.
Directed against the "cowardice of the modern spirit," the Black Beast privileged novelty and literary innovation, and sifted the contemporary pictorial tendencies: the futurism of Marinetti, the posterity of cubists and beasts, the young Italian painters and Spanish exhibitors in Paris . She gave the floor to the painters themselves: Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger each signed a note, Le Corbusier contributed many times, and wrote including a dithyrambic article on New York, entitled " I am an American ". There is in pre-first edition the essays of Antonin Artaud on the theater of cruelty, Dr. Allendy's thesis "Fascism and Homosexuality", and a tribune of André Breton pronounced at the Congress of Writers. The journal was also a privileged place of poetic research, where Raymond Queneau published for the first time his poem-theatrical "Muses and Lizards ", Henri Michaux his poem "But you, when will you come? " And Jules Supervielle an excerpt from The Fable of the World, published in its entirety in 1938.
The magazine includes, among others, the contributions of Antonin Artaud, Maurice Raynal, Tériade, Jacques Baron, Jean-Louis Barrault, André Breton, Jacques Brunius, Charles Albert Cingria, René Daumal, Fernand Léger, Marc Chagall, Bernard Fay, Jean Follain , Halicka, Le Corbusier, Michel Leiris, Henri Michaux, Marcel Moré, Léon Pierre-Quint, Raymond Queneau, Henri de Regnier, Pierre Reverdy, Andre de Richaud, Roger Vitrac ...
In addition, we can admire the pictorial contributions of Balthus who creates an original portrait of Antonin Artaud, as well as two original drawings by Georges Braque, and illustrations by André Beaudin, Suzanne Roger, Francisco Borès, Gea Augsburg, Roger Vitrac and Jacques Audiberti.
Very rare complete collection of a monthly that played the role of Parisian avant-garde forum.