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ARAGON, Louis La peinture au défi. Exhibition of collages. With twenty-three reproductions of collaged papers and collages [...]. Paris Galerie Goemans [with relay stamp José Corti, partially removed on cover] 1930 Pet. in-8°. Br. with green printed cover (spine slightly browned, upper spine split). First edition. Edition of 1020 copies. One of 1000 on ordinary paper. Complete with 23 plates of b/w reproductions of collages by Arp, Braque, Dalí, Derain, Duchamp, Ernst, Lissitsky, Magritte, Man Ray, Miró, Picabia, Picasso, Rodtchenko and Tanguy. This text "is at once one of the key texts on this medium, one of the best proofs of the author's theoretical gifts and one of the most 'anti-artistic' writings of the S." (Biro). Camille Goemans (1900-1960), a very active figure in Belgian surrealism and a writer, organised an exhibition entirely devoted to collages in his Parisian gallery in 1930. In 1926, together with Geert van Bruaene, he had already exhibited Max Ernst's collages in Brussels, Ref. Biro and others, Dict. général du surr, p. 324. - Missing in Schwilden, Magritte delivers the picture.
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ARAGON, Louis La peinture au défi. Exhibition of collages. With twenty-three reproductions of collaged papers and collages [...]. Paris Galerie Goemans [with relay stamp José Corti, partially removed on cover] 1930 Pet. in-8°. Br. with green printed cover (spine slightly browned, upper spine split). First edition. Edition of 1020 copies. One of 1000 on ordinary paper. Complete with 23 plates of b/w reproductions of collages by Arp, Braque, Dalí, Derain, Duchamp, Ernst, Lissitsky, Magritte, Man Ray, Miró, Picabia, Picasso, Rodtchenko and Tanguy. This text "is at once one of the key texts on this medium, one of the best proofs of the author's theoretical gifts and one of the most 'anti-artistic' writings of the S." (Biro). Camille Goemans (1900-1960), a very active figure in Belgian surrealism and a writer, organised an exhibition entirely devoted to collages in his Parisian gallery in 1930. In 1926, together with Geert van Bruaene, he had already exhibited Max Ernst's collages in Brussels, Ref. Biro and others, Dict. général du surr, p. 324. - Missing in Schwilden, Magritte delivers the picture.
