"The Hermitage". Monthly magazine of art... - Lot 88 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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"The Hermitage". Monthly magazine of art... - Lot 88 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
"The Hermitage". Monthly magazine of art and literature. Illustrated series. From the 9th to the 13th year. P., 1898-1902, 9 vol. in-12, green half-chagrin, spine with 4 nerves, gilt titles and tomaisons (spines faded and rubbed, without covers, scattered russets). A publication founded in 1890 by Henri Mazel, l'Ermitage is a monthly magazine belonging to the first wave of small symbolist magazines. In the years 1895, the magazine enters in decline, and its new director, Edouard Ducoté, calls André Gide. The editorial team was then reduced to twelve regular contributors, friends of Gide. After many difficulties and attempts to reshuffle the editorial team (Remy de Gourmont will make a passage and will also contribute financially in 1905), L'Ermitage breathes its last in 1906. L'Ermitage managed to distinguish itself from other important magazines of the time such as the Mercure de France or the Revue blanche because it claimed to be eclectic and apolitical. Its small illustrations are in the art nouveau style, and, true to its symbolist state of mind, its contributors are more interested in poetry than in the novel. Tiphaine Samoyault, French literary critic, believes that Hermitage expresses a transition between fin de siècle aestheticism and the avant-garde poetry of the 1910s.
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