148 - [MAGAZINE].

[MAGAZINE]. NEON. Paris, January 1948–April 1949. — 5 issues in large folio format, loose sheets, folded. Complete collection of this Surrealist magazine founded by Sarane Alexandrian, Victor Brauner, and Jindřich Heisler, and run by a committee that also included Véra Hérold, Stanislas Rodanski, and Claude Tarnaud. The title is an acronym that varies by issue: “ To Be Nothing, To Be Everything, To Open Being” (Nos. 1–3: Nothingness, Oblivion, Being), then “To Navigate, To Awaken, To Conceal” / “Nacce, Bird, Case” (Nos. 4–5). Contributors to the texts included Alexandrian, Breton, Duprey, Heine, Péret, Rodanski, Tarnaud, Gracq, and others; and contributors to the illustrations included Brauner, Hérold, Matta, Ernst, Styrský, Toyen, Riopelle, and others. Issue 1 is printed on large-format paper, numbered 16, and includes a large fold-out advertisement for the exhibition “La Leçon de choses” at the Galerie du Ranelagh in February 1965. Issue 4 is on standard paper, and the other three are on large-format paper, numbered 23, 22, and 22, respectively. The copies are in very good condition. Included are: - 4 copies of issue 2, including 2 on standard paper, one on gray paper, and one on large-format paper (numbered); - 2 copies of issue 3, including one on standard paper and one on blue paper; - 17 copies of Issue 5, including 15 on standard paper and 2 on large-format paper (unnumbered and numbered 16). Copies are in good condition. Set of 28 issues; the copies on large-format paper do not include supplements.