Mar 09, 2006 - Sale 2071

Sale 2071 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
MOST IMPORTANT DEVETSIL PERIODICAL (AVANT-GARDE, CZECH MODERNIST.) Teige, Karel; editor. ReD [Review of the Union for Modern Culture Devetsil]. Group of 13 numbers. Illustrated by artists of the day. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers, condition very good. Prague, 1927-30
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1927: Numbers 1 (2 copies), 2 1928: 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 1929: 3 and 10 1930: 4 and 8. The voice of Devetsil that aimed "to be the herald of all that is new in the world of art and scholarship--in short, a full panorama of the world and a acomplete atlas of poetry"--Teige, from the manifesto. The journal contained contribtions by Apollinaire, Jarry, Mallarmé, Tzara, Seifert, Biebl, Arp, Chagall, Brancusi, Klee, Lissitzky, Picasso, May Ray, Kupka, Styrsky, and numerous others. Its cessation of publication marked the effective end of Devetsil--Dana Collection of Czech Avant-Garde, 26.