"L'Usage de la parole. Literary review published every two m - Lot 845

"L'Usage de la parole. Literary review published every two months under the direction of Georges Hugnet. Paris, Éditions des Cahiers d'Art, 1939-1940, 3 fasc. large 4°, stapled (cover of first issue soiled and slightly pitted). Complete collection. Contributions by Hans Arp, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Georges Hugnet, Valentine Hugo, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Reverdy, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Tristan Tzara, etc. Covers illustrated by Man Ray, Max Ernst and Joan Miró. The fourth issue remained in proof. Extremely rare complete collection of this magazine, "exclusively poetic" according to Paul Eluard, which brought together exceptional artistic contributions at the dawn of the Occupation.