Dotremont Chr (2 results)

27 x 21 cm - 368 pgs - couverture d'éditeur, broché - traces d'usage, tache sur la deuxième partie de la couverture mais désormais très acceptable - ills n/bl.

4to. c.26 pages per issue. Original wrappers. Complete run the Cobra magazine, (vols 8 & 9 never published). Complete sets of this revue are very scarce as, due to financial problems, only a very few copies of No.5 were ever issued. All the issues were published in Brussels apart from No. 4 (Amsterdam) and No. 5 (Hannover) Cobra 1: Bulletin pour la coordination des investigations artistiques, lien souple des groupes expérimentaux danois [Horst], belge [Surréaliste-Revolutionnaire], hollandais [Reflex]. Copenhagen. (March, 1949). - With colour plates by amongst others, Asger Jorn, Eiler Bille, and C.H. Pedersen. Cover design by Jorn. Cobra 2: Bulletin pour la coordination des investigations artistiques, lien souple des groupes expérimentaux danois [Horst], belge [Surréaliste-Revolutionnaire], hollandais [Reflex]. Brussells. March, 1949. - Cover design by Pol Bury. Cobra 3: Bulletin pour la coordination des investigations artistiques, lien souple des groupes expérimentaux danois [Horst], belge [Surréaliste-Revolutionnaire], hollandais [Reflex]. - Cover design by Alechinsky. The entire issue is devoted to experimental Belgian cinema. With the rare announcement bandeau: ?Pour le festival International du Film Expérimental . ? Cobra 4: Organe du front international des artistes expérimentaux d?avant-garde. Amsterdam. November 1949. (numero hollandais: Expérimental Groep in Holland). - Cover with photographs by Jörgen Roos. Cobra 5: Internationale Zeitschrift für Moderne Kunst. Organ de ?Internationale des Artistes Expérimentaux? Hannover. 1950. (Deutsch Ausgabe) - With Asger Jorn?s text ?Sozialistische Heringe, realistische Olfarben und Volkskunst? and original hors-texte lithograph by Alechinsky. Printed in very limited numbers, the German issue of Cobra (No. 5) was banned in Germany until the ?50s. The issue was published finally in 1951 in France, Belgium and Holland with an additional inserted leaf of explanatory text and a lithograph by Alechinsky not issued in the original number. Cobra 6: Revue bimestrielle de l?Internationale des artistes expérimentaux. Brussells. April 1950. - With plates by Alechinsky, Pol Bury and others and cover design by Leo van Roy. Cobra 7: Revue International de l?Art Expérimental. Brussells. Automne 1950. - With plates by Asger Jorn and Jan Cox and a cover by Raoul Ubac. Cobra 8 / 9 - Never published. Cobra 10: Revue International de l?Art Expérimental. Liège. Autumn, 1950. (Deuxième Année) - Cover by Alechinsky and with the catalogue for the 'IIème Exposition Internationale d'Art Expérimental', limited to 2,000 copies, held at Liège in October / November 1951 and at which the dissolution of Cobra was announced. [Ref. Le Fonds Paul Destribats. Une collection de revues et de periodiques des avant-gardes internationales a la Bibliotheque Kandinsky, no. 532; Gwen Allen - Artists' Magazines. An alternative space for art, p. 250].…