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"Selection". Chronicle of the artistic life. Founders : André de Ridder and Paul-Gustave Van Hecke. N° 2, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (1st year), N° 2/3 (2nd year). Brussels, 1920-1922, 5 vols. 4° and 1 vol. 8°, stapled (the last one stapled), glazed paper cover filled with paper. (some covers damaged). First edition. In the autumn of 1920, Paul-Gustave Van Hecke and André De Ridder founded the Sélection gallery, which they defined as a "contemporary art workshop", a centre whose activities revolved around new art. To support this mission, they publish the periodical "Sélection", Chronicle of artistic life for seven years. This monthly magazine was above all an important forum for the promotion of the second Sint-Martens-Latem group in particular, with Constant Permeke, Gustave De Smet, Frits Van den Berghe, and of expressionism in general. During the first years, Sélection was hostile to abstract art and essentially defended an art form that still recognized perceptible and visible reality / "Le Surréalisme au service de la Révolution". Director: André Breton. No. 5 (6 issues). P., José Corti, 1933, fasc. 4°, br. (cover faded). Texts and illustrations by Duchamp, Tzara, Dali, Breton, Bousquet, Eluard, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Man Ray, René Char, Ponge, Crevel, Nougé, Caillois, Aragon.../ "Transition". A Quarterly Review. N° 19/20 and 21. P., 1930-1932, 2 vols. 8°, 398 and 325 p., br., covers illustrated by Eli Lotar (n° 19/20) and Arp (n° 21) (grease stain on the cover and at the head of the 1st vol., small lack on the cover and browned and stained edges for the second). Texts by G. Stein, Jolas, Beckett, Kafka, Michaux, Joyce, Paulhan, Queneau, Soupault, Tzara... Illustrations by Miro, Giacometti, Léger, etc./ 9 vol. set
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"Selection". Chronicle of the artistic life. Founders : André de Ridder and Paul-Gustave Van Hecke. N° 2, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (1st year), N° 2/3 (2nd year). Brussels, 1920-1922, 5 vols. 4° and 1 vol. 8°, stapled (the last one stapled), glazed paper cover filled with paper. (some covers damaged). First edition. In the autumn of 1920, Paul-Gustave Van Hecke and André De Ridder founded the Sélection gallery, which they defined as a "contemporary art workshop", a centre whose activities revolved around new art. To support this mission, they publish the periodical "Sélection", Chronicle of artistic life for seven years. This monthly magazine was above all an important forum for the promotion of the second Sint-Martens-Latem group in particular, with Constant Permeke, Gustave De Smet, Frits Van den Berghe, and of expressionism in general. During the first years, Sélection was hostile to abstract art and essentially defended an art form that still recognized perceptible and visible reality / "Le Surréalisme au service de la Révolution". Director: André Breton. No. 5 (6 issues). P., José Corti, 1933, fasc. 4°, br. (cover faded). Texts and illustrations by Duchamp, Tzara, Dali, Breton, Bousquet, Eluard, Max Ernst, Giacometti, Man Ray, René Char, Ponge, Crevel, Nougé, Caillois, Aragon.../ "Transition". A Quarterly Review. N° 19/20 and 21. P., 1930-1932, 2 vols. 8°, 398 and 325 p., br., covers illustrated by Eli Lotar (n° 19/20) and Arp (n° 21) (grease stain on the cover and at the head of the 1st vol., small lack on the cover and browned and stained edges for the second). Texts by G. Stein, Jolas, Beckett, Kafka, Michaux, Joyce, Paulhan, Queneau, Soupault, Tzara... Illustrations by Miro, Giacometti, Léger, etc./ 9 vol. set
