Francis Picabia - La Sainte Vierge - 1993

Glorious, slightly mad (because obsessively complete and perfect), special edition that was brought out to accompany the 1993 Picabia exhibition organized in Belgium in cooperation with Olga Picabia. It contains a dizzying amout of facsimiles of Dada magazines and pamphlets from the 1910s/20s that have been printed in their original size and on the same kind of paper that was used originally.
Among them are: “291”, No. 5 - 6, New York 1915 (“Picabia Issue”)
“391”, No. 1 - 19 (including No. 15: “Le Pilhaou-Thibaou”), Barcelona and others. O., 1917 - 1924
Exposition Dada: Francis Picabia, catalog Paris 1920
Cannibale, Nos. 1 and 2, Paris 1920
Funny Guy, Paris 1921
Le Salon des Indépendants, Paris 1922
La Pomme de Pins, Saint-Raphael 1922
Plus de cubisme, Saint-Raphael 1922
Moi, Pierre de Massot, Paris 1922
Littérature (Leporello with the 8 cover illustrations by F. Picabia)
Ballets suédois de Rolf de Maré (Ballet “Relâche”), Paris 1924
Tableaux, watercolors and designs by Francis Picabia appartenant to Marcel Duchamps, Paris 1926
Journal des Hivernants, No. 1620, 1927
“491”: 50 ans de plaisir, Paris 1949
Quelques oeuvres de Picabia (époque Dada 1915 - 1925, Paris 1951
Separately there are 2 folding sheets with acknowledgement & a list of the contents,. plus a size 8° copy of the exhibition catalogue with 32 pages of text, incl an essay by Maria Lluisa Borras, and 55 colour plates of the works that had been assembled from all over the world for this special occasion.
Light wear to the red linen box. Comes with the black cassette that is usually missing. Contents absolutely perfect and the book evidenty unread. No. 273 of supposedly 1200 copies produced, with hors commerce in pencil. Rumour has it that the print run of 1200 was an exxageration in the style of French publishers from the 1920s and the real number is much lower.
All in all, a must for fans of Picabia, Dada or Surrealism. One could even imagine using the material in a small new exhibition of Picabia's work. The reproductions look uncannily perfect.

No. 273 (H.C.)

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