Quadrum. Revue Internationale d'Art Moderne / Rivista Internazionale d'Arte Moderna / International Magazine of Modern Art / Internationale Zeitschrift fûr Moderne Kunst. No. 1 – No. 20. (All Published).

Brussels.: L'Association pour la Diffusion Artistique et Culturelle., 1956, Mai – 1966.. Original publisher's printed colour wrappers with titles and illustration, each issue with a cover designed by a different artist (see below), issues loose in paper portfolios, cloth chemises and slipcases with leather labels to spines with gilt titles and issue numbers.. 20 issues. 4to. (268 x 210 mm).. Printed text and profuse illustration in colour and monochrome throughout on glossy paper with inserted sections of better paper to each issue with reproductions of works by various artists, occasional tipped-in or folding plates, inserted errata slips as applicable; issue 12 with index for issues 1 - 12. An excellent complete set of Quadrum in the original wrappers.Seen as the successor to 'Cahiers d'Art' and 'Séléction', Quadrum was an ambitious, multilingual art review, noted for its international scope and the high quality of its contributors and contributions. Each issue, with a cover designed by an individual artist, includes illustrated articles on a variety of then relevant art-related subjects together with a final section 'DOCUMENTATION' detailing exhibitions, museum acquisitions, recent publications and so on (each issue also includes with extensive art-related advertisements). One innovation was the commission of artists to write on art-related matters, so we have Alechinsky in regard to Japanese calligraphy, Masson on painting, Hülsenbeck on dada, but the intellectual aspiration is certainly matched by the quality of the content.Among the extensive list of contributors is Herbert Read, Will Grohmann, Kahnweiler, Patrick Heron, James Fitzsimmons, Patrick Waldberg, Michel Seuphor, Yvon Taillendier, Stephen Spender, Michel Tapié and Auguste Strindberg; the subjects covered, as one might imagine, include everything from various Venice Biennales and Documentas to the Zero Group, Lettrism ('Peinture et Ecriture'), modern architecture, English Pop Art, up and coming artists and so on and so forth.The covers for the issues (in the order in which they appear) are by Victor Vasarely, Hans Hartung, Henri Michaux, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Jackson Pollock, Capogrossi, Ben Nicholson, Sonderberg, Gaston Bertrand, Asger Jorn, Georges Noel, Lucio Fontana, Victor Brauner, Matta, Joe Tilson, Larry RIvers, Antonio Saura and Chillida. 'L'originalité de QUADRUM ne saurait être indépendante de celle de l'art dont elle ambitionne de servir les hauts intérêts, de montrer less ressorts profonds et d'illustrer les aspects caractéristiques ... QUADRUM se présente comme une revue internationale ... QUADRUM internationalise sa structure en se plaçant sous la direction d'un Comité qui ne siège ni dans telle capitale, ni même dans tel continent déterminé ... QUADRUM voudrait être partout ... QUADRUM sera polyglotte ... Ayant ainsi défini notre position, - dans un nouvel espace et dans un temps nouveau, - nous croyons pouvoir passer à l'action, nous mettre au travail.' (From the 'Editorial' in No. 1).[Le Fonds Paul Destribats 603].