Picasso, Pablo. - Baer, Brigitte:Livre Rare Book
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London Bulletin. October 1938 - Number 6 cover title
1938réf. 147671London: The London Gallery Ltd 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London The London Gallery Ltd. 1938. Quarto 32 pages with 20 illustrations including 4 line illustrations and 15 reproduced from photographs plus advertising on all four surfaces of the covers. Saddle-sewn grey wrappers printed in blue; tiny stain and light creasing to the bottom margin of the rear wrapper and the last four leaves; some text leaves printed on acidic paper resulting in some tanning offsetting and light foxing; contemporary inkstamp on the inside rear wrapper 'No. from the Library of the Gayer-Anderson Hostel for Art Students Lavenham'; a very good copy. Edited by E.L.T. Mesens and Roland Penrose. 'Since its appearance in April of this year "London Bulletin" has assumed the position of the only avant garde publication in this country concerned with contemporary poetry and art. Although its first number was practically a monograph by various hands concentrated on the work of the surrealist Rene Magritte it has rapidly extended its range reflecting besides exhibitions of paintings other activities of living interest in its pages' the preamble to the order form on page 1. This issue concerns itself in the main with the three exhibitions advertised on the front cover: Picasso's 'Guernica' exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries and the London Gallery's exhibitions of Giorgio de Chirico and Humphrey Jennings. The 'Guernica' content comprises an article by Herbert Read; Paul Eluard's poem 'La Victoire de Guernica' in both French and English; and three photographs by Dora Maar including '"Guernica" in Picasso's studio'. De Chirico and Jennings are afforded even more attention each with their exhibition catalogues several pages of text and additional illustrations de Chirico has four full-page plates. The journal ran to 20 numbers in 15 issues including some combined issues culminating in a triple issue in June 1940. The London Gallery Ltd paperback
