1933. A complete run in three volumes of the short-lived subversive French Surrealist art and literary journal, under the editorial direction of Lisa Deharme, containing contributions from important Surrealist writers, poets, and photographers, including writings by Robert Desnos, Drieau La Rochelle, Hans Arp, James Joyce, Jacques Lacan, Roger Vitrac, D.H. Lawrence and Raymond Queneau, among others, illustrated throughout with beautiful black and white reproductions from photographs by Man Ray, Lee Miller, Brassai, Nadar, Pierre Keffer, Eli Lotar, Lloyd Sloane, and Dora Maar. Small quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, housed in black cloth portfolio with matching slipcase. Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1933.

Lise Deharme was an important figure within the Surrealist movement. Best known as the muse and love of André Breton, she was also a prolific organizer of Surrealist salons which she held at her home. Le Phare de Neuilly had its founding in these salons, and blended ethics with aesthetics to address the social and political issues facing France in the 1930s. These issues comprise a scarce and important collection of surrealist fiction, poetry, theory and photographic art.

Book ID: 53371

Price: $4,500.00