Sims Reed Rare Books×

Art Nucléaire

Arte Nucleare. Sauvage, Tristan

Milan. Galleria Schwarz. 1962
Sold
Deluxe edition limited to 190 copies consisting of the book and an additional portfolio containing 30 original documents, catalogues and manifestos of the Nuclear Art movement (numbered in the portfolio).

The portfolio is entitled 'Registratore Nucleare', and provides an invaluable archive of the original documents of the movement. Each of the documents has a small numbering stamp on the right top corner, which refers to the index of the portfolio.

The documents are as follows:
IL GESTO. Rassegna Internazionale delle Forme Libere. Nos. 1-4 (all publ.). Milano, 1955-1959. Folio, original pictorial wrappers (original lithographs by Colombo, Fontana, Pomodoro).
Announcement notice for exhibition opening, Baj and Dangelo, Galerie Apollo, Brussels, March 1952 (verso with the artist's manifesto
Announcement notice - Prima Esposizione del Movementi Nucleare,Milan, May 1952
Announcement notice- Prefigurazione, exhibition Studio B, Milan, June1953
Laszo Varga - poem by E. Sanguinetti, November 1953
Arte Nucleare- catalogue, Venice, March 1954
Announcement notice -Il Segno e la Parola, Libreria Schwarz, Milan, 1954
Baj - catalogue, Galleria l'Asterisco Rome, May 1954
Jorn - catalogue (with original lithograph wrappers), Galleria l'Asterisco, Rome, June 1954
Asger Jorn- Immagine e forma, Milan, 1954
Joe Colombo, original lithograph, 1954
Incontro Internazionale di Albissola, catalogue, Milan, 1954
Esposizione Alt , catalogue with an original lithograph by Baj, Alessandria, 1955
Esposizione'Il Gesto', catalogue, Galleria Schettini, Milan, 1955
Baj, Milan, 1956
Per una pittura organica, manifesto, Milan, July 1957
Contro le stile, Contre le Style, The End of Style, Milan, September 1957
Arte Nucleare, catalogue, Galleria S.Fedele, Milan, October 1957
L'avanguardia, catalogue, Galleria Montenapoleone, Milan, May 1958
Manifesto del gruppo nucleare napoletano, Naples, July 1958
Le Manifeste de Naples, Naples, January 1959,
Baj, catalogue Rive Gauche, Paris, 1959
Documento Sud, Naples, 1960
Miriorama, Milan, 1960
Baj, catalogue, R. Cordier, Paris, 1961
Baj, catalogue, Galerie du Fleuve, Paris, 1961
Dangelo, Milan, 1961, with an original signed and numbered etching.
pp. (242). Large 4to. Colour and black and white illustrations. Cloth, dust-jacket. Together with portfolio housed in black card slipcase.
#41095

Other Items

Bigarrure
From the edition limited to 1162 copies.
£300
Icart, Louis. Hermant, AbelBigarrure1928
Londres. Illustré de 174 gravures sur...
A very scarce deluxe example of Louis Enault's 'Londres' illustrated by Gustave Doré printed on Chine and with a signed original drawing.
£15,000
Doré, Gustave. Enault, LouisLondres. Illustré de 174...1876
Où Boivent les Loups
André Breton's copy of the rare édition de tête on Japon Nacré with a long presentation from Tzara and Max Ernst's frontispiece etching in three states.
£55,000
Ernst, Max. Tzara, TristanOù Boivent les Loups1932
Mr. Knife, Miss Fork
An excellent copy of the édition de tête of Mr.
£25,000
Ernst, Max. Boyle, Kay & René Crevel, (Trans.)Mr. Knife, Miss Fork1931
Aru Issiho No Naimaku Aru Wa...
George Hugnet's copy of the very rare deluxe issue of Yamanaka's Japanese translation of Eluard with illustrations by Dalí.
£5,500
Dali, Salvador. Eluard, Paul, & Yamanaka Tiroux (or Chiryu, Trans.)Aru Issiho No Naimaku...Showa 12. 1937
Les Malheurs des Immortels révélés par...
An excellent unsophisticated copy from the édition de tête, limited to 10 copies on Madagascar, of the second edition of the seminal collaboration marking the boundary between dada and Surrealism.
£2,500
Ernst, Max. Eluard, PaulLes Malheurs des Immortels...1945
La Femme 100 Têtes
The first part of Max Ernst's trilogy of collage novels: La Femme 100 Têtes.
£5,500
Ernst, MaxLa Femme 100 Têtes1929
Perles et Parures: Les Joyaux Fantaisie...
The most desirable issue of 'Perles et Parures' with the hand-coloured plates on vélin 'découpés en dentelles' and in the original polychromatic percaline bindings.
£4,500
Gavarni (Sulpice-Guillaume Chevallier). Méry, Joseph and Le Cte. FoelixPerles et Parures: Les...1850
Les Métamorphoses du Jour par Grandville...
The posthumous first edition in book form with accompanying text of Grandville's 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' in the original publisher's binding.
£5,500
GrandvilleLes Métamorphoses du Jour...1854
Scènes de la Vie Privée et...
The first edition of Grandville's anthropomorphic masterpiece in the deluxe publisher's binding.
£8,500
Grandville. Various AuthorsScènes de la Vie...1842