[Art Journal] Noise 5; [with] Noise 6; [and with] Noise 15/16

Paris: Maeght Editeur [through 1992], 1986. Three issues of Maeght Editeur's beautifully produced, outsized contemporary art and literary journal, Noise, all Fine and profusely illustrated in color. Crown Folio (368 x 268mm): 56; 56; 80pp, with numerous reproductions of original lithographs (mostly double-page, on card and included in pagination). Publisher's wraparound pictorial stiff-card perfect bindings. Text in French. One of 2000 standard copies (120 were issued on vellum). No. 5, with contributions by Mattia Bonetti, Werner Büttner, Graziella da Gioz, André Derain, Barry Flanagan, Elizabeth Garouste, Witold Gombrowicz, Philippe Lacque-Labarthe, Françoise Martin, Pierre Moignard, Frederic Paul, Jacques Perry, François Martin, and Andrea Zanzotto. No. 6, with contributions by Edouard Pignon, Stefano Benni, Vincent Corpet, Luis Mizón, Antonio Saura, Marc Le Bot, Peter Chevalier, Pascal Bonafoux, Hélène Delprat, and Juan Manuel Bonet. No. 15/16 (double issue), with contributions by Tristan Tzara, Philippe Favier, Robert Walser, Rover Thomas, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Robinson, Sophie Ristelhueber, Jean-Patrick Maslier, Yves Bresson, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Antoine, Detlef Orlopp, Guy de Maupassant, Norbert Prangenberg, Jean Oury, Olivier Ouidette, Lucette Desvignes, Christophe Boutin, and Alekseï Leonov. Editorial successor to Derrière le Miroir, which published the works of such artists and authors as Pierre Alechinsky, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Vassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Guillaume Apollinaire, and André Breton, and was created by French art dealer Aimé Maeght in October, 1946. In October, 1945, at the close of the Second World War, when many exiled artists returned to France, Maeght had opened his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. Following Maeght's death in September, 1981, the final issue of Derrière le Miroir was published. Four years later, Maeght's publishing house brought out the first issue of Noise, which continued until issue 18/19 of 1992. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books and periodicals in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).