Derriere le Miroir 162, Francis Bacon lithographs, Galerie Maeght 1956 vintage INV2097

Paris: Maeght, 1956. First edition. Unsigned. Softcover. Published for the exhibition of 17 paintings, including three triptychs, by Bacon. 34 unbound pages. 5 reproductions in lithographic printing in colors after paintings. 8 color reproductions including 1 tri-fold folded. 5 reproductions in black. 5 full page color lithographs and 1 tri-fold folded color lithograph, smaller color and black & white illustrations, including two full page, printed on Vélin de Rives paper. Deluxe edition limited to 150 copies. Text by Michel Leiris and interview of Francis Bacon by David Sylvester. Publication measurement when closed: 15” X 11”.

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. The magazine, itself designed as an art object presented in a large (11” x 15”) format, is illustrated with original lithographs as well as a number of reproductions. Poets and writers like Aragon, Beckett, Char, Eluard, Prévert, Queneau, Reverdy, Sartre, contributed with unpublished texts.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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