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Lot 48•
LONDON BULLETIN London Bulletin, 20 vol. in 15 (Complete), THE GUGGENHEIM JEUNE GALLERY SET, April 1938-June 1940
Ending from 1 May 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Ingram Reid
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Robert Jenkinson
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LONDON BULLETIN
London Bulletin, 20 vol. in 15 (Complete), THE GUGGENHEIM JEUNE GALLERY SET, edited by E.T. Mesens, photographic plates, spotting and foxing, publisher's pictorial wrappers, held in contemporary morocco-backed chemise (lettered "London Bulletin" on spine) and slipcase (worn), small 4to (247 x 284mm.), April 1938-June 1940
Footnotes
A complete set of the London Bulletin, the influential English Surrealist periodical which was edited by E.L.T. Mesens, who had become the director of the London Gallery in 1937. Contributors included Paul Eluard, André Breton, Paul Nash, Yves Tanguy, Eileen Agar, John Banting, Conroy Maddox, Roland Penrose, Samuel Beckett, George Reavey, Herbert Read and others. The final issue includes hors-texte two-colour woodcuts by John Banting and Stanley William Hayter, and a monochrome woodcut by John Buckland Wright.
Included with the lot is the New Burlington Galleries exhibition catalogue of Picasso's "Guernica", October 1938.
Provenance: The Peggy Guggenheim/Jeune gallery set, most issues with "Office Copy" on the upper cover, and nos. 4/5 the gallery advertisement for their Yves Tanguy exhibition priced up in ink. Peggy opened the gallery at Cork Street, London in January 1938, closing in June 1939. The back cover of the first four numbers had a full-page advert for Guggenheim exhibitions (a solo show of Tanguy; a mixed exhibition including Dali, Eileen Agar, Picasso, Magritte etc.; contemporary sculpture including Brancusi, Arp, Moore, etc.).