[REVIEW]. The Three Roses. Art magazine. Grenoble,... - Lot 171 - Ader

[REVIEW]. The Three Roses. Art magazine. Grenoble, June 1918-April/May 1919. - 12 issues in 7 fascicles in-8, 246 x 160 : 191 pp. with printed or illustrated covers. Blue half cloth, smooth spine, untrimmed, covers preserved (A. F. Thiebaut). Extremely rare complete collection of this avant-garde review created by the poet Justin-Frantz Simon. It is in these terms that it is presented at the head of the first issue: "Due to circumstances the Revue is published in Grenoble; it is not for that reason a Revue de décentralisation, even less a local Revue . The Revue is not the organ of a coterie or a chapel. We will strive to group together poets and writers of different aesthetics and tendencies, but clearly representative of the literary effort of modern France. We are honored to count among our contributors some of the most distinguished representatives of the symbolist movement and the leaders of the most recent and most reviled movements. We believe that art is sufficient in itself. Its social significance, if it has any, is acquired by the mere fact of admiring. " There appeared 12 issues in 7 fascicles, 5 being double issues. The first issue came out in June 1918 and the last in April-May 1919. The first three issues were edited by Justin-Frantz Simon, the following ones by his wife, the latter having died on the night of October 20-21, 1918 of the Spanish flu. The pagination is continuous. Some of the great names of literature of the time, such as Paul Valéry, Louis Aragon, André Breton, Francis Vielé-Griffin, Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, René Chalupt, Francis Jammes, Louis de Gonzague Frick, Tristan Derème, Jean Royère, Paul Éluard, and also Guillaume Apollinaire, who wrote the poem L'Enfant d'or (The Golden Child), which was published in the double issue 5-6 of October-November 1918. The magazine is also illustrated from number 2 onwards with woodcuts in the text or on the full page by Ortiz de Zaraté, Gabriel Fournier, André Favory, André Chabert, André Laffitte, Pierre Farrey, and André Lhote, as well as with drawings by Gabriel Ducultit. A perfectly preserved copy, complete with all the covers, each of a different colour, printed and illustrated differently. It comes from the library of the poet and music critic René Chalupt (1885-1957), one of the contributors to the magazine. Provenance: René Chalupt, with bookplate.