First edition of this complete year 1933 which intends to present a history of contemporary art beginning at the end of Impressionism" to go up to "Cubism".
Handsome set despite two stains and a slash of purple ink on the first and second covers of No. 6.
Contributions by Jean Mistler, René Huyghe, Claude Roger-Marx, Waldemar George, Germain Bazin, André Salmon, Jean Cassou, Paul Fierens, Roger Brielle, Wilhelm Uhde, André Lhote...
Issues illustrated with reproductions of works by Paul Signac, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Louis Forain, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Kees Van Dongen, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Rouault, Moïse Kisling, Jules Pascin, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaïm Soutine, André Derain, Othon Friesz, Henri Rousseau, Maurice Utrillo, Marie Laurencin, Suzanne Valadon, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Louis Marcoussis, Fernand Léger, Roger de La Fresnaye, André Lhote...
Issues 5, 6 & 7 being partly devoted to "Fauvism", 8 to instinctive painting, 9 to "Cubism".