Lot 671
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View. Surrealism in Belgium. Charles Henri Ford editor.
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
New York, December 1946
Large 4to.
Sewn, green ill. cover (spine sl. rubbed, unobtrusive soiling at cover). Good copy.
Important partly "Belgian" issue of this avant-garde New York periodical published between 1940 & 1947. Cover specially designed by Magritte and printed in green, small photographic portrait of the Belgian painter, 6 reprod. of paintings or drawings; with also texts by Magritte ("Lifeline"), Marcel Mariën (editor of this issue), Louis Scutenaire, Paul Nougé, Paul Colinet & Paul Magritte, translated by Paul Bowles.
Ref. Mariën, L'activité surr. en Belgique, pp. 397 sq. - Schwilden 211.