La bête noire n°2

First edition of this review edited by Maurice Raynal and Efstrathios Tériade, and in particular illustrated by Georges Braque, Balthus, Roger Vitrac published between April 1935 and February 1936.
Marginal tears.
An artistic and literary review created by the writers Maurice Raynal and Michel Leiris, La Bête noire was conceived as an attempt at an intellectual counter-attack to the rise of fascism in France, awakened by the Parisian demonstrations of February 1934 . The review was baptized by the wealthy banker Marcel Moré, a friend of Max Jacob, Antonin Artaud, and Georges Bataille - and will also benefit from his financial support.
La Bête noire was placed under the direction of Maurice Raynal, exegete of pictorial abstraction, friend of the Cubists and author of monographs on Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Ossip Zadkine. During the 1920s, he wrote under the pseudonym "The Two Blinds" with Efstrathios Tériade, art critic of Greek origin and artistic director of the first nine issues of the luxurious review Minotaure 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 over , Tériade enjoyed great success with his art review Verve and his illustrated books made in collaboration with Picasso.
Directed against the “cowards of the modern spirit”, La Bête Noire favored novelty and literary innovation, and sifted through contemporary pictorial tendencies: Marinetti's futurism, the posterity of cubists and wild beasts, 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 notably wrote a dithyrambic article on New York, entitled " I am an American ". The pre-first edition contains Antonin Artaud's essays on the theater of cruelty, Doctor Allendy's thesis "Fascism and Homosexuality", and a podium by André Breton, delivered at the Writers' Congress. The review was also a privileged place of poetic research, where Raymond Queneau published for the first time his theatrical poem "Muses and Lizards ", Henri Michaux his poem "But you, when will you come?" " , And Jules Supervielle an extract from La fable du monde, published in its entirety in 1938.
The review 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 Régnier, Pierre Reverdy, André de Richaud, Roger Vitrac ...
We can also 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 Augsbourg, Roger Vitrac and Jacques Audiberti.