Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 387

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
SEUPHOR, MICHEL [pseud. of F.L. Berckelaers]; and JOZEF PEETERS. Het Overzicht. Number 13, November 13, 1922. Two linocuts by Karel Maes, one by Josef Peeters and a lithograph by Francesco Cangiullo (Portret van Marinetti door of Verrassings-Alfabet) and illustrations by Russolo, Depero, Paladini, Huszar and Baldessari. Folio, original wrappers with image titled 'Het Futurisme' (after accompanying article of the same name) with linocut by Peeters, bottom staple lacking, two horizontal soft creases to cover and contents; occasional mild ink smears. Schwarz 112. (SA) Antwerp, 1922

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rare and legendary flemish avant-garde magazine.Similar to the German counterpart 'Sturm,' which started a decade earlier. It dealt with topics from all areas of modern art, architecture, literature and
music, and was illustrated with original graphics.

With issue Number 13, the first of Het Overzicht's 'second series,' Peeters had "taken over co-editorship as well as cover design of the magazine. From this point on, the magazine quickly abandons what was left of its nationalism and traditionalism to embrace the more international European avant-garde movements, signaling a desire to forge connections between the Continent's radical experiments in art and literature. This realignment is seen in both its poetics, which shift more to the free verse and sound poetry of cubism and dada, as well as its visual art, which takes on explicitly futurist and constructivist aesthetics"--Letterform Archive, Periodicals as Collections, No. 1: Het Overzicht and Wendingen, letterformarchive.org.