OBLIQUES 14-15: LA FEMME SURREALISTE

Paris: Editions Borderie, 1977.
30 x 21cm. 352pp. 204 illustrations in b/w and color. Stiff, printed wrappers with central color reproduction of a painting by Jane Graverol. Dirige par Roger Borderie assiste de Michel Camus. A special number of this luxurious revue, which is devoted to the female artists and authors of the Surrealist movement. Essays by Pieyre de Mandiargues, Gerard Legrand, Michel Butor, and others. Proceeded by extensive documentation of the life and works of Eileen Agar, Belen (Nelly Kaplan), Bona, Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Lise Deharme, Jacqueline Dupry, Marcelle Ferry, Leonor Fini, Jane Graverol, Vera Herald, Valentine Hugo, Greta Knutson, Jacqueline Lamba, Laure, Annie Lebrun, Georgette Magritte, Dora Maar, Joyce Mansour, Lee Miller, Meret Oppenheim, Valentine Penrose, Gisele Prassinos, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, Remedios Varo, Unica Zurn, et. al. The first and most comprehensive and informative resource (to date) thus. A fine example. Notoriously scarce.