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    Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui, 390

    n°390

    Periodical

    Author

    Person cited Vincent Van Gogh
    Drawings by Émile Bernard
    Text by Émile Bernard

    Description

    The collection of Les Hommes D'Aujourd'hui was founded in September 1878 by André Gill and Félicien Champsaur. The journal was first published by Cinqualbre (until 1883), then by Léon Vanier after two years of interruption. The last publication appeared in 1899. André Breton posessed 27 numbers of the collection.

    The journal was originally inspired by the successful journal, Le Bulletin de vote, published in collaboration with the journalist Maxime Rude which was a collection of illustrated biographies, promoting the republican candidats in the legislative elections of October 1877. The collection of Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui strays from militant politics; each number (containing 4 pages) is devoted to a different contemporary figure belonging to the world of arts, literature or science. A colorful portrait of the spotlight celebrity is on each cover, followed by three pages of text, citations from the author, entire poems or various notable facts about the author's work. The texts are playful, and at times written in jest, composed of contemporaneous and fantastic elements.

    When Léon Vanier took over the publication in 1885, he would finalize the element of caracature for the series (André Gill and Henri Demare were the consecutive authors of the first portraits). Among the graphic artists to join was Émile Bernard, who did the portrait of Vincent Van Gogh on the cover of number 390 "after a portrait done by [Vincent Van Gogh himself]" Émile Bernard also signed the monograph dedicated to the painter.

    Bibliographical materialBreton Sale, lot 1107. Paris, Librarie Vanier, no date, In-4° soft cover.
    ISSNL 1147-677X
    Issue390
    Date of publication 1878
    Publicationfirst publication
    LanguagesFrench
    PublisherLibrairie Vanier, Paris
    Breton Auction, 2003Lot 1107
    Keywords, ,
    CategoriesJournals
    SetJournaux et revues, [Journal] Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui
    Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100931470