[HOOREMAN, Paul] Le Cadre. Limited company. Former Manteau house. Brussels. [Brussels] s.n. 1928 In-16 : [8] ff. 56 plates. In ff. in printed folder, preserved in a later envelope addressed to Marcel Mariën (damaged). Rare publication, in the same vein as the fur catalogues designed by Magritte for the furrier Samuel, "a happy example of those more or less occult, more or less discreet poetic interventions, the most famous of which is undoubtedly Mallarmé's 'La dernière Mode'" (Mariën). Catalogue written by the Belgian composer, musicologist and pedagogue Paul Hooreman (1903-1977), close to the Belgian surrealists with whom he broke in 1928. Contains an introductory text, a table of plates and 56 photographic plates in b/w with captions on the verso, showing frames of various styles, mostly empty but some of which present works by Arp, Braque, Derain, Ensor, Ernst, Miro and Picasso. Ref. Mariën, L'activité surr. en Belgique, pp. 149, 180. - Opac KBR. Prov. Marcel Mariën. Joint: Les Lèvres nues. Brussels. Number 12 (new series), February 1975. Contains a preface by Camille Goemans to an exhibition of empty frames planned by Geert van Bruaene around 1926-27. (1 envelope and 1 leaflet)