[Grünewald, Isaac -- Provenance] Apollinaire, Guillaume (Ed.)

Paris, 1914. 26x17,5 cm. 129-188 pp. + 6 leaves of plates. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Small losses at spine ends and corners of front wrapper. The oversized wrappers are a bit creased and torn in lower margins. There are a few light stains on the wrappers. A well-preserved copy. Contains, for instance, Chronique mensuelle, by Apollinaire, Horace Holley etc. / Lettres d'Alfred Jarry à M. le docteur Saltas / Giovanni Papini: Deux philosophes (Bergson et Croce) / Harrison Reeves: Les épopées populaires américaines / Poems by Henri Hertz, Jean le Roy, and Léonard Pieux. With six reproductions of paintings by Francis Picabia. The short-lived but influential magazine Les Soirées de Paris was founded by Apollinaire, André Salmon, André Billy and others in order to cover the contemporary art and literature. It ran for 27 issues (some double) the years 1912-1914, when the publication was broken off by the war. Among the contributors and artists treated were Jarry, Picabia, Matisse, Jacob, and Braque. From the library of Isaac Grünewald (1889-1946), and with his signature on front wrapper. Grünewald was the foremost artist and public defender of the first wave of Swedish modernism and held the position of professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts between 1932 and 1942. He lived in Paris the years 1908-1911, where he studied painting at the academy of Matisse, and befriended authors and artists, for instance Apollinaire, Jacob and Salmon, who were associated with Les Soirées de Paris.