Dotrement, Christian — Cobra: 1948-1951

Paris, Editions Jean-Michel Place, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Glossy pictorial covers, orange cloth-covered boards, rubbing to the black-lettered spine, very light wear and tear to boards, Illustrated endpapers, being a black-and-white photograph of assembled artists. Published by Éditions Jean-Michel Place, 1980, Lavishly illustrated in black-and-white. Foreword by Christian Dotremont, really, the founder of the C.O.B.R.A. movement named after the home cities of its founding members (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam). Then follows a presentation of each and every issue of the influential French art movement journal, which ran from 1948-1951, sponsored at least initially by Galerie Birch and that featured paintings and sculptures, collages and etchings. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Dotremont has also included here "Le Realisme-Socialiste Contra La Revolution" at end, and then with publisher's ads galore. Unpaginated, but roughly 250 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine