UP (Catalogue for modernist furniture design)
Prague: Around 1935. In original illustrated paper, 31 p. Filled with photographs of UP designs. No text. Numerous Jindrich Halabala designs. Anon design. Stamp of noted Brno architect Lubor Lacina. More
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![Edice Situace [Situations], nos. 1–15 (all published](/pictures/thumb/2272.jpg?v=1627497658)
Edice Situace [Situations], nos. 1–15 (all published)
Prague: Jazzová sekce, 1979–1983. In original white papers. 19. p. each. The very rare complete set of these catalogs of conceptual Czechoslovak art. Features numerous full-page photographic reproductions showing artworks, happenings, performances, as well as original text, biographical information, and lists of exhibitions. The artists covered are, in order of..... More
Styrsky a Toyen. Uvodní slovo
Prague: Borový, 1938. 247 p. The first comprehensive catalogue of the work of the Prague artist couple. Inscribed to Paul Eluard. To Paul Eluard, whose poetry we love Jindrich Štyrský Toyen To our wonderful Friend Vítezslav Nezval To our love poetry! Karel Teige Prague, 14./ 1. 1938..... More
Poster of the exhibition of Art Francès d' avantguarda del 26 octubre al 15 novembre de 1920. Barcelona,
Barcelona: Galerie Dalmau, 1920. Poster printed in colors (45 x 31.5 cm). Original poster from the first international avant-garde exhibition held in Barcelona in 1920 at the Dalmau Gallery. It included Georges Braque, Derain, Juan Gris, Auguste Herbin, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger, Juan Miró, Ortiz..... More
Furniture for the Werkbundausstellung Stuttgart. (2 design for chairs).
Stuttgat: 1927. Blueprint on tracing paper, both 52x63 cm., titled and dated. Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, known simply as J.J.P, was a leading Dutch architect, designer, and urban planner of the modern movement. Born in 1890, he was educated at the Quellinus Arts and Crafts School, Amsterdam, the Rijksnormal School..... More
A handwritten sentence by Teige (Je me souviens tous les jours à vous.)
1930s. Je me souviens tous les jours à vous. ( I remember you everyday.) From the collection of Jean-Paul Kahn. 20x13 cm. More
Styrsky a Toyen. 3. Vystava. Topicuv Salon. (Inscribed to Paul Eluard)
Prague: 1938. Unbound, as published. 4 p. Inscribed to Paul Eluard. Exhibition catalogue of Štyrský and Toyen, with text by Karel Teige. The catalogue contains a three-page writing by Teige about Štyrský and Toyen and lists the artworks exhibited at the Topičův Salon in 1938. Both Jindřich Štyrský..... More
A jövő városa (The city of the future)
Budapest: 1943. In original half-cloth binding, in original protective cover. With the author’s plans and drawings; richly illustrated with intertextual and full-page images. Also photos of buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Lissityky and others. More
A déli sark hajótöröttjei (Shipwrecks of the South Pole)
Budapest: Dante, (1934). In publisher’s green cloth. Illustrated by Sándor Bortnyik. 206 p. The book was published in the series of travelogues by the Dante publisher, and some of the dust jackets were designed by Sándor Bortnyik, the Hungarian avant-garde graphic artist and painter. More
A MODERN FOTÓMŰVÉSZET. IRTA ÉS ILLUSZTRÁLTA: --. [THE MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY IVAN HEVESY.]
Budapest: 1934. In the rare original photographically illustrated paper. Illustrated with Hevesy's photos. 112 p. (the 16 plates of photographic illustrations are included.). Iván Hevesy (1893-1966) was a Hungarain photographer, film-critic. From the end of the 1910s he engaged in the artistic disputes of the time, between 1917 and 1918..... More
Áfonya (Blackberry) Poems
Budapest: Munka, 1937. In original paper. 30 p. Published by Munka the periodical edited by Lajos Kassak. Rare. More
Sötét egek alatt (Black sky)
Budapest: Hungaria, 1940. In original illustrated wrappers. 52 p. With the preface of Lajos Kassák, thirty poems and six drawings. Published in 300 copies, it is unnumbered. It was typographized and the cover was designed by Lajos Lengyel. Inscribed to the Cserepfalvi family. Imre Cserépfalvi, born Imre Deutsch (1900 -..... More
Ottó Bauer és az osztrák polgárháború. Az ausztromarxizmus önleleplezése (Otto Bauer and the Austrian Civil War. Self-disclosure of austromarxism)
Budapest: Uj Konyvtar, 1934. In original illustrated paper. 14 p. More
Vintage portrait of Lajos Lengyel
Budapest: 1939. With Kinszki's handwriting on the back. Lajos Lengyel (1904–1978) graphic artist, typographer and photographer. In his early years he was involved in the modernist movements, member of Kassák’s Munka-Circle. As typographer he won the Gutenberg-prize in 1965. More
Harper's weekly (Unique college book)
1973. Bound with two clamps. 40 p. 40 paper collage . Klaus Groh studied art education and art history and received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg with the topic “The new DaDaism on the American west coast” (Maro-Verlag, Augsburg) Groh headed the..... More
![Zwrotnica. Kierunek: sztuka teraźniejszości. [nr.] 8. Miesięcznik 1926. [Switch. Direction:...](/pictures/thumb/2216.jpg?v=1624982333)
Zwrotnica. Kierunek: sztuka teraźniejszości. [nr.] 8. Miesięcznik 1926. [Switch. Direction: Art of the Present. No. 8. June, 1926.]
Krakow: 1926. 207-215 p. This issue includes, among others texts by T. Peiper "Early Access", J. Przyboś "Man in Things", J. Brzękowski "Fragment of a Film Novel". “Zwrotnica” was the magazine of “Awangarda Krakowska” the Kraków-group of avant-garde artists’. The founder and the editor of the periodical was..... More
Signed autograph letter to Chil Aronson in Yiddish
Vence: June 15, 1953. In the letter Chagall writing about the death of the Rosenbergs and also about ballet. Aronson was an established art critic for the Polish Yiddish press by the time he moved to Paris in 1927. Captivated by the émigré art scene in Montparnasse, he became its..... More
EXPOSICION DE ARTE MODERNO NACIONAL Y EXTRANJERO - Galeries Dalmau - 1929.
Barcelona: Horta, 1929. In original paper. 19 p. and 26 page of reproduction. Modernist exhibition catalogue from the famous Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. Exhibitors include: Sophie TAUEBER-ARP, Otto FREUNDLICH, Jean HELION, Otto van REES, VANTONGERLOO, Angel PLANELL, Joaquin TORRES GARCIA, Hans ARP, Théo Van DOESBURG, Serge CHARCHOUNE, Piet MONDRIAN. More
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Zycie maszyn [The life of machines]. Biblioteka Iskier, no. 46
Lwow: Ksiaznica-Atlas, 1934. In original illustrated half cloth. 252 p. Cover illustration is attributed to the artist Konstanty Sopoćko (1903–1992). Burdecki was a Polish writer of sci- ence ction and popular works on science. More
Mezinárodní výstava fotografie 6. březen-13. duben 1936 (International photography exhibition 1936)
Prague: Mánes, 1936. In original paper. 24. p. A very rare exhibition catalogue. The show featured artists from Czechoslovakia, France, Germany and the Soviet Union, Exhibiting artists included Josef Sudek, Jaromír Funke, Rodchenko,, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hans Bellmer,, John Hartfield, Raoul Hausmann among others. More
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Jóság. [Antológia.]
Budapest: 1929. 125 p, Some of Miklós Radnóti's early poems first appeared in print in the volume. Cover design by Herry Hollan. Inscribed by Janos Vajda. More
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