Painting - Sculpture - Engraving. Salon created... - Lot 789 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

Painting - Sculpture - Engraving. Salon created on May 10, 1952 by Charles Estienne. October 1-29, 1953, Galerie Craven, 5 rue des Beaux-arts Paris-6e. Booklet 8° narrow, 24 p. printed on sheets of different colors, all numbered 22, 2 black and white photographic portraits of Picabia by J.L. Craven. Texts by Charles Estienne: "Vingt-deux" and "Le Courlis et le Crapaud", Michel Tapié: "Actualité de Picabia", Edouard Jaguer: "Picabia et les sortilèges"; Roland Penrose: "Crystal clear" and Christian Dotremont: "Nous irons dans les bois et nous y laisserons les lauriers" (EO). "Hasty nomenclature of the insults and invectives most frequently used by James Ensor in his letters and lectures from 1884 to 1934, compiled by Pierre Alechinsky. List of 61 exhibitors. For two years, the Salon d'Octobre was one of the bastions of abstract art in Paris (a bitter quarrel between abstract and figurative artists in the 1950s), bringing together representatives of lyrical abstraction. A fine copy.