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Auction P4047 (Lisbon & Online) » Lot 69
November 13, 2008 9:00PM — Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal

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Presença - Folha de Arte e Crítica. 14 Magazines by “Edição Presença”, edited between April 1929 and July 1936.

Vol. I - no. 20 (April and May 1929)
- no. 27 (June and July 1930). Including an annotation in pencil by Fernando Pessoa (extract from “The Book disquited”).

Vol. II
- no. 29 (November and December, 1930) – two issues.
Including text corrections by José Gaspar Simões.
- nos. 31-32 (March and June, 1931). Including an annotation in pencil by Fernando Pessoa.
- no. 33 (July and October, 1931).
- no. 34 (November and February, 1932). Including Fernando Pessoa’s name on the top of the cover.
- no. 35 (March and May, 1932). Including Fernando Pessoa’s name on the top of the cover.
- no. 36 (November, 1932).
- no. 37 (February, 1933).
- no. 38 (April, 1933).
- no. 39 (July, 1933).
- nos. 41-42 (May 1934).
- no. 48 (July, 1936). Edition dedicated to Fernando Pessoa, following his death.

REFERENCES: Magazine published in Coimbra, from 1927, directed by José Régio, Branquinho da Fonseca and João Gaspar Simões. It was published in two series: the first, between 1927 and 1939, included fifty three editions; the second, only two editions were published (1939 and 1940).
Among other merits, it was “Presença”, that was responsible for rehabilitating the artistic proposals of the “Orpheu Generation” (no. 48 is dedicated to Fernando Pessoa), honouring the literary modernity of the men of 1915 and the demand for impartiality and rigour in literary criticism. Simultaneously, “Presença” played a determining cultural role in promoting foreign authors such as Proust, Gide, Pirandello, Dostoievsky, Ibsen, and the Brazilians, Jorge Amado, José Lins do Rego, Cecília de Meireles, Ribeiro Couto and Jorge de Lima.

PROVENANCE: From the estates of Fernando Pessoa´s heirs. DIMENSIONS: 37 x 29 cm.