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Auction archive: Lot number 46

Bifur, Issues 1-6

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$281
Auction archive: Lot number 46

Bifur, Issues 1-6

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$281
Beschreibung:

5 issues of a series of 8 volumes published between May, 1929 and June 1931. Illustrated with hand-fed photogravures. Includes works by Blaise Cendrars Henry Michaux, Isaac Babel, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Toomer, Tristan Tzara et al. Limitation numbers vary but each copy was from a print run of 3,000 copies. Containing early photogravures by Germaine Krull André Kertész Eli Lotar Tina Modotti Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Maurice Tabard Considered one of the most important "little magazines" of the interwar period, this fragile publication not only contained important works in surrealism, and world literature, but was also one of the rare publications to prioritize photography, with images by young and still largely unknown artists such as Kertész, Krull, and Moholy-Nagy. Bifur 1: No. 1161 of 3,000 Bifur 3: No. 2988 of 3,000. Bifur 4: No. 328 of 3,000. Bifur 5: No. 376 of 3,000. Bifur 6: No. 1241 of 3,000.

Auction archive: Lot number 46
Auction:
Datum:
4 Mar 2021
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

5 issues of a series of 8 volumes published between May, 1929 and June 1931. Illustrated with hand-fed photogravures. Includes works by Blaise Cendrars Henry Michaux, Isaac Babel, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Toomer, Tristan Tzara et al. Limitation numbers vary but each copy was from a print run of 3,000 copies. Containing early photogravures by Germaine Krull André Kertész Eli Lotar Tina Modotti Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Maurice Tabard Considered one of the most important "little magazines" of the interwar period, this fragile publication not only contained important works in surrealism, and world literature, but was also one of the rare publications to prioritize photography, with images by young and still largely unknown artists such as Kertész, Krull, and Moholy-Nagy. Bifur 1: No. 1161 of 3,000 Bifur 3: No. 2988 of 3,000. Bifur 4: No. 328 of 3,000. Bifur 5: No. 376 of 3,000. Bifur 6: No. 1241 of 3,000.

Auction archive: Lot number 46
Auction:
Datum:
4 Mar 2021
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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