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Maintenant - Art and Literature notebooks

COMPLETE COLLECTION IN LARGE PAPER of the 10 issues in 9 issues, printed on vellum pur-fil, each issue limited to 42, 50 and 52 numbered copies.
Each copy includes a hors-texte drawing (woodcut or drawing reproduction) reserved for major papers. 

Subtitled International illustrated collection of literature and art, Maintenant was directed by Henry Poulaille from 1945 to 1948. The big names of proletarian literature, such as Tristan Remy and Michel Ragon, rubbed shoulders with leading authors, some of whose texts appeared for the first time: Stefan Zweig: "Castellion, soldier of liberty"andFrans Masereel"Flaubert: "27 previously unpublished letters" several letters by Paul Gauguin, Gaston Chaissac: "Tales from a craftsman Paul Valery: "Two unpublished letters"Blaise Cendrars: "Faire la ripe", Van Gogh: "Letter to A. Van Rappard"Emile Bernard: " Two letters to Courbet"...

Numerous illustrations in and out of the text by Steinlen, Picasso, Masereel, Émile Bernard, Van Gogh, Camille Pissaro, Wilette, Cézanne, Manet, Delacroix, Edmond Cros, Monet, Delauney, Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Méheut, Matisse, Maillol, Lebédeff, Daumier...

Book 1: One of 50 copies on vellum pur fil (No. 26), containing a woodcut hors texte by Germain Delatousche, signed in graphite. 256 pp.
Book 2: One of 50 copies on vellum pur fil (n°25), containing an engraved woodcut hors texte by Jacques Roullet. 256 pp.
Book 3: One of 50 copies on vellum pur fil (No. 24), containing a hors texte drawing by R. Joel. 252 [4] pp.
Book 4: One of 50 copies on vellum pur fil (No. 36), containing a hors texte drawing by Joseph Lacasse. 258 pp.
Book 5: One of 50 copies on vellum pur fil (No. 33), containing a woodcut hors texte by Jean Lebedeff. 257 [7] pp.
Book 6: One of 52 copies on vellum pur fil (No. 18), containing a hors texte drawing by Vincent Van Gogh. 254 [6] pp.
Book 7: One of 52 copies on vellum pur fil (No. 19), containing an unpublished drawing by Frans Masereel (portrait of novelist Andréas Latzko). 242 [2] pp.
Book 8: One of 42 copies on vellum pur fil (No. 19), containing two unpublished drawings by Robert Joel and Robert Laurent. 269 [3] pp.
Book 9 & 10: One of 42 copies on vellum pur fil (No. 22), containing a hors texte drawing by Joseph Lacasse. 510 [2] pp.

Copies well preserved.