by (PICABIA, Francis)
One black & white full-page illus. [8] pp. Small 8vo, orig. brown wrappers with text in orange (spine splitting), staple-bound. Paris: Galerie Briant-Robert, 1927.
Rare Francis Picabia (1879-1953) exhibition catalogue; we locate two copies in North America. It was published for the first of three Picabia shows that the poet and gallerist Théophile Briant (1891-1956) staged in Paris from 1927 to 1929. At the time, Briant’s gallery, run with Adrien Robert, specialized in contemporary art and maintained a publishing arm for livres d’artistes and poetry. The partnership ended around 1929 and the gallery closed soon thereafter due to the global economic crisis.
The catalogue includes a three-page text by poet Robert Desnos (in trans.): “These paintings by Picabia, open doors unto an unceasingly renewed universe, are evidence of the fight he is engaged in and in which he is not yet conquered.” The check-list records 61 works and there is a manuscript note on provenance next to no. 19, “Le Héros.”
Near fine copy, head of spine split.
❧ Leonard A. Lauder Research Center’s Modern Art Index Project’s entry on Théophile Briant written by G. Casini (accessed August 2024). (Inventory #: 10609)
Rare Francis Picabia (1879-1953) exhibition catalogue; we locate two copies in North America. It was published for the first of three Picabia shows that the poet and gallerist Théophile Briant (1891-1956) staged in Paris from 1927 to 1929. At the time, Briant’s gallery, run with Adrien Robert, specialized in contemporary art and maintained a publishing arm for livres d’artistes and poetry. The partnership ended around 1929 and the gallery closed soon thereafter due to the global economic crisis.
The catalogue includes a three-page text by poet Robert Desnos (in trans.): “These paintings by Picabia, open doors unto an unceasingly renewed universe, are evidence of the fight he is engaged in and in which he is not yet conquered.” The check-list records 61 works and there is a manuscript note on provenance next to no. 19, “Le Héros.”
Near fine copy, head of spine split.
❧ Leonard A. Lauder Research Center’s Modern Art Index Project’s entry on Théophile Briant written by G. Casini (accessed August 2024). (Inventory #: 10609)
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