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SIC. Sons - Idées - Couleurs - Formes, 1916

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€ 1.800 - 2.000

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€ 2.322

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Information

Paris, from January 1916 to December 1919 (n.1-54). 54 numbers in 41 issues, most of them in loose folded booklets, some stapled and with paperback, numerous black and white plates in the text, the booklet numbered 8-9-10 (August-September-October 1916) contains a loose plate with original color drawing, issue numbered 40-41 (February-March 1919) contains a photographic reproduction pasted onto the sheet of a sculpture by Ossip Zadkine, considering the fragile nature of the paper used several issues have tears along the fold and the edges with rare and small faults, folder 37-38-39 with a tear with lack at the lower external corner, slight water mark on some folders, some foxing and light browning. On the title page number 12 bears handwritten in red ink "1/10", from numbers 13 to 24 in red ink on the title page it is marked "4/6", from numbers 40-41 to 53-54 on the title page the edition bears "Tirace sur Chine_ 4 exemplaires. Exemplare n. 2."


Specialist Notes

The complete collection of this famous and very rare avant-garde magazine directed by the poet Pierre Albert-Birot and published from January 1916 to December 1919. An eclectic magazine that tried to intercept all the most cultural ferments avant-garde artists of the time, from Cubism to Fauvism, from the Italian Futurists to the Swiss Dadaists, for this reason he played a decisive role in spreading trends and creating a place for dialogue between the various artistic thrusts. On its pages, space was given to poems, theatrical texts, musical scores, visual art, prose, trying to make the works speak for themselves. The great step forward of SIC compared to other avant-garde magazines of the time is a very modern taste towards typographic and graphic aspects, giving life to innovative and pioneering solutions, in particular as regards the graphic visualization of poetry. Among the collaborators of the magazine, some of the most advanced artists and intellectuals of the time, such as: Guillaume Apollinaire, Luciano Folgore, Gino Severini, Pierre Drieu-Larochelle, Paul Dermée, Pierre Reverdy, Philippe Soupault, Jean Cocteau, then Tristan Tzara, Louis de Gonzague-Frick, André Breton, Louis Aragon, Osip Zadkine, Jules Romains, Raymond Radiguet.