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TitleXXe Siecle – Volumes 1-6

Year1938

MediumBooks

DimensionsQuarto: 12.5 X 8.5 inches

Description

Boxed set of the art review magazine XXe Siecle, volumes 1-6, first 6 issues in 5 volumes containing 15 original graphics by prominent artists including: Matisse, Miro, Kandinsky, Duchamp, de Chirico, Marcoussis, Severini, Max Ernst, Max Bill, and Alberto Magnelli.

Accession NumberRC500

NotesXXe Siecle was art magazine created in 1938 and directed until its death in 1974 by Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, direction taken over, from 1974 to 1981, by Alain Jouffroy, Pierre Volboudt and Gilbert Lascault.

The first six issues
Arrived in Paris in 1924, Gualtieri di San Lazzaro created in 1938 the magazine XX ee siècle which, after six issues until 1939, ceased to appear during the war.

Contents of the first six issues:
I. March 1938, with a lithograph by Pascin
I. May- June 1938
III. 1938, with six original woodcuts by Vassily Kandinsky
IV. 1938, with original engravings by Henri Matisse, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró, Jean Arp, Henri Laurens, Alberto Magnelli, Ossip Zadkine and Jean Hélion, original lithographs by Marcel Duchamp and Max Bill
V-VI. 1939, original lithographs by Max Ernst, engravings by Power and Gino Severini, woodcut after Vassily Kandinsky

Additional information

Artist

Arp, Bill, de Chirico, Duchamp, Ernst, Marcoussis, Matisse, Miro, Severini, Various, Zadkine
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Books
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