Derriere le Miroir 155, Chagall, Miró, Braque, Giacometti lithographs, 1965, vintage INV2113

 

Foundation Maeght - Inauguration

Derriere le Miroir No. 155

Paris: Maeght, 1965. First edition. Unsigned. Softcover. Published to mark the first year of the Maeght Foundation. 28 bound pages. 1 original color lithograph

by Miró. 1 original Ubac color lithograph. Color reproductions of works by Braque, Kandinsky, Bonnard and Miró. 1 reproduction color single fold flat by

Chagall. Address by André Malraux at the inauguration in July 1964. François Wehrlin reflects 18 months of activity. Publication measurement when

closed: 15 X 11 in.


Condition: excellent; very slight foxing appropriate with age; light handling and storage wear


Derrière le Miroir (DLM) was an art magazine published between 1946 and 1982 by the French publisher and gallery owner Aimé Maeght of Galerie Maeght,

which for many years was the most important gallery in the world for contemporary art. There were a total of 253 editions in 200 volumes. Poets and

writers like Aragon, Beckett, Char, Eluard, Prévert, Queneau, Reverdy, Sartre, contributed with unpublished texts. Most of the major artists of the second half

of the twentieth century created lithographs for DLM: Léger, Miro, Calder, Tapies, Chillida, Braque, Matisse, Giacometti, and above all Chagall.

            

The edition of Behind The Mirror, DLM, accompanied each exhibition of the Galerie Maeght in 1946 to 1982. DLM, as it is published for over thirty-five years, was born from the passion of Aimé Maeght to edit and press. DLM was mailed individually to subscribers (which seemed almost from the first to include libraries and museums) and the gallery’s collectors.   


Provenance: The Golden Griffin Gallery/Arts Inc. operated in downtown Manhattan - New York City, New York from the 1950s to the 1970s. In the mid 1940s, Arts, Inc. was established as a publishing house specializing in European scholarly and artistic works. In the 1950s, Arts, Inc., the parent company, expanded to create, first, the Golden Griffin Bookstore and then the Griffin Gallery, which dealt primarily with contemporary American and European artists. The Golden Griffin was known as the “Continental Bookstore” because of its stock of European titles.


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