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1933réf. 190263Anvers: Éditions Sélection 1933. Inscribed to the founder of Britain's first abstract art journal during the Paris visit that inspired it First edition presentation copy inscribed by Kandinsky to Myfanwy Evans on the title page "Mlle. M. Evans Comme souvenir de sa visite à mon atelier Kandinsky Paris 8 IX 34" "as a souvenir of her visit to my studio". In the summer of 1934 Evans visited Paris where she met avant-garde artists including Kandinsky Giacometti Arp Mondrian and Brancusi. The meetings were decisive: on 26 September Evans wrote to Kandinsky "I'm going to start an English magazine on abstract art but abstract only not surrealism" Barnett p. 44. The first issue of Axis published in January 1935 drew heavily on Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art a foundational text of abstraction. The issue also reproduced Kandinsky's "Drawing 1924"; the reproduction was made directly from this copy as shown by pencil annotations on page 43 in the hand of Evans's future husband John Piper directing the printer to retain Kandinsky's signature. Evans maintained her connection with Kandinsky - the second issue of Axis also included a Kandinsky illustration and Evans's article "Kandinsky's vision" and in 1937 Kandinsky contributed the essay "Empty Canvas etc" to her anthology The Painter's Object. Sélection was founded in 1920 and from 1928 its numbers became single-artist monographs. This Kandinsky number published in July 1933 was the last of the series. Edited by Kandinsky's close friend and early champion Will Grohmann it includes essays and tributes by Zervos Baumeister Seuphor Rivera de Ridder Cary and Galka Scheyer. It illustrates Kandinsky's prints from 1902 to 1932 and drawings from 1910 to 1932. Kandinsky assisted with the publication. Small quarto. Portrait and 15 full-page half-tones after Kandinsky 48 full-page line blocks vignettes and title page ornament. Original brown wrappers printed in dark brown. Wrappers a little worn with book block loosening light soiling and toning: a good copy. Vivian Endicott Barnett Kandinsky in Paris 1985. unknown
1933réf. 16653Anvers Antwerp: Editions selection 1933. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 100 pp. Text in French. 8vo 25.5 x 18.3 cm. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white with Kandinsky's drawings and 15 photographic plates of paintings. Dedicated in pencil on title page: "A Monsieur Diego di Rivera tres cordialement Kandinsky Berlin 5 VIII 1933 May 8 1933." Bound in full leather with gilt detailing and four raised bands. Spine heavily rubbed rear joint partly broken upper joint fully separated and attached by the marbled endpaper only. Scattered foxing otherwise fine. A remarkable association copy. The monographic catalogues of the Cahiers Selection also featured Dufy Leger Chagall de Chirico and Gromaire. Diego "di" Rivera as he is referred to in the publication was one of the contributors. Responding to the works of the great painter Rivera wrote: "A painting by Kandinsky is not an image of life but life itself. I know nothing more real than the painting of Kandinsky nothing more authentic nothing more beautiful." From the collection of Viktor Kholodkov 1948-2015 who fulfilled his passion for books avant-garde design and paper memorabilia by devoting his life to collecting and dealing of prominent works of Russian graphic art of the first half of the 20th century. The dedicated collector acquired a multitude of books and artworks throughout decades meticulously labeling and archiving every single item. Many came directly from the most preeminent artists of the time as well as from their families and estates. He also possessed a vast number of drawings from the famous collection of another avant-garde enthusiast Nikolai Khardzhiev. After leaving the USSR in 1989 and settling in California Viktor continued his work as a Soviet art dealer and critic actively publishing various articles and contributing to several major Russian avant-garde exhibitions across the U.S. such as the 1991 Russia Under Fire in the 40s on the West Coast and the 1992 Guggenheim exhibition The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde. Kholodkov also contributed to the archives of the biggest American institutions. His sophisticated selection of over 2000 Russian sheet music covers was acquired by The Library of Congress and an extensive amount of material related to VKhUTEMAS is now at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Editions selection hardcover books
1970réf. C86501Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 504 pages well illustrated. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1970. Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg hardcover
1970réf. 86501Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg. As New. 1970. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 504 pages well illustrated. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg hardcover
1939réf. SPENDERS007080Atelier 17 Paris & New York. March 1939. First edition. Octavo. Spender's poem ''Fall of a City'' and Louis Aragon's translation ''Chute d'une Cit�'' together with nine engravings loose within wrappers. The engravings were printed by Atelier 17 and Henri Hecht and include one with aquatint and roulette one with soft ground etching one drypoint and one etching. All are on Montval handmade paper with deckle-edges. Held within the original plain board chemise but lacking the slipcase which had a Hayter titling-piece pasted onto the front. Stanley Hayter founded Atelier 17 in Paris in 1927 and it continues to this day in Rue Didot albeit with the name changed to Atelier Contrepoint. This production was his contribution to the raising of funds to help children orphaned by the Spanish Civil War.101 numbered copies were printed for sale and 12 for the contributors. This copy is unnumbered and hors commerce marked ''h.c'' on the limitation page. Each copy including this one was signed by Spender and Aragon at their respective contribution and by each artist in the lower margin of the etched sheet.Fine in custom burgundy morocco box with ''FRATERNITY'' in gilt on the lid. Very scarce with all nine loose etchings as most sets have been broken up for piecemeal sale. Atelier 17, Paris & New York. March, unknown
1934réf. 47944Paris.: Editions Surréalistes. 1934. Full black crushed morocco by Georges Leroux with his signature gilt boards with abstract geometric rules in gilt and green and outlined parallelograms several with inlaid café crème calf smooth spine with gilt titles café crème calf doublures bright green brushed suede free endpapers original publisher's printed wrappers in black and red and backstrip with titles in black preserved a.e.g. black morocco-edged green paper-covered board slipcase with additional signature at foot. 8vo. 192 x 146 mm. Leaf with half-title recto and 'Du Même Auteur' verso leaf with Kandinsky's dry point engraving as frontispiece verso printed title in red and black with copyright verso Char's verse two leaves with 'Table' and final leaf with justification and achevé d'imprimer recto. PROVENANCE: Discreet bookplate of bibliophile François Ragazzoni with his name and initials 'F R' in blue to front free endpaper verso. The édition de tête of the first edition of René Char's collection with Wassily Kandinsky's original frontispiece etching and bound by Georges Leroux. From the édition de tête limited to 20 numbered copies on papier de Hollande van Gelder with Kandinsky's original dry point engraving as frontispiece; only copies from the édition de tête were issued with the original engraving.Also included inserted loose is the scarce subscription announcement printed on yellow paper 172 x 272 mm with a quotation from the Comte de Lautréamont ' . Pour le moment et pour plus tard vous n'avez pas besoin d'en savoir davantage' and with manuscript notes verso in pencil in an unidentified hand these mention 'Picasso - Parade' 'Cocteau' 'No sur les Ballets Russes' etc.Kandinsky's untitled etching issued in only 20 impressions was followed by only two further etchings those for 'La Main Passe' 1934 and 'Fraternity' 1939 before Kandinsky's death in 1944. Pablo Picasso was a profound admirer of Char and of the work which collected all of Char's poems published after 1927 and submitted an etching for the second edition - printed in a very similar format to this edition - published again by José Corti's Editions Surréalistes in 1945. A third illustrated edition was also published illustrated by Joan Miró in 1976. This first edition and in this issue of 20 copies with Kandinsky's etching is the rarest of the editions; Picasso's etching for the édition de tête was issued in 25 copies while the version with Miró's etchings was an edition of 215 copies 50 with an additional suite.'Le Marteaus sans Maître' includes 'Abondance Viendra' 'Poèmes Militants' it appeared here for the first time 'Arsenal' corrected and with four new poems 'Artine' and 'L'Action de la Justice est Eteinte'. In the present copy the poems 'Sosie' and 'Détachement' feature corrections by Char in green ink. He has amended the last line of 'Sosie' to read: 'Je ne vais pas au bout de ta pauvreté' for 'tes misères' a change reflected in the subsequent editions. The first line of 'Détachement' 'La fleur du pissenlit a perdu son identité' is crossed through and Char has drawn an arrow to it from a note beneath: 'Ce vers ricanait qu'il meurs / comme tant ce fin ricane. / R. C.' 'Détachement' was renamed 'Dentelée' for subsequent editions but was altered considerably by Char and the first line crossed through here was removed entirely.'Des trois éditions illustrées du 'Marteau sans Maître' celle-ci la première est la plus rare . Dans une lettre à Char du 28.11.1933 Kandinsky accepte la demande de fournir une gravure pour son livre bien qu'il ne connaisse pas l'auteur. Avec 'La Main Passe' de Tzara c'est le seul ouvrage poétique illustré par Kandinsky sic . '. De Parallèlement à Chanson Complète.'Auflage: 20 eigenhandig signierte Exemplare auf Van-Gelder-Butten . Veroffentlicht in der Luxusausgabe von Rene Char 'Le Marteau sans Maître' Paris Editions Surréalsites 1934.' Roethel.Roethel 199; see 'De Parallèlement à Chanson Complète' pp. 357 - 364; see lot 100 'Bibliothèque François Ragazzoni Seconde Partie: Editions Originales' Paris 13 / 14 May 2003. Editions Surréalistes. hardcover
