Derriere le Miroir 114, Pierre Tal-Coat, lithographs, Galerie Maeght 1959 vintage INV2091

 

 

Tal-Coat

Derriere Le Miroir no. 114

Paris: Maeght, 1959. First edition. Unsigned. Softcover. 20 unbound pages. Four single fold flat color lithographs - covers and three interior. One tri-fold folded color lithograph. Text by Henri Maldiney. Exhibition checklist. Publication measurement when closed: 15 X 11in. Condition: excellent. Smattering of small indistinct marks on bottom right of page 5; 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. The magazine, itself designed as an art object presented in a large 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 Poets and writers like Aragon, Beckett, Char, Eluard, Prévert, Queneau, Reverdy, Sartre, contributed with unpublished texts.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 was mailed individually to subscribers (which seemed almost from the first to include libraries and museums) and 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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