La Plume

For other uses, see La Plume (disambiguation).

Cover art by Alfons Mucha for La Plume.

La Plume (French pronunciation: [laplym] ) was a French bi-monthly literary and artistic review. ^[1] The magazine was set up in 1889 by Léon Deschamps, who edited it for ten years and was succeeded as editor by Karl Boès from 1899 to 1914. ^[1] Its offices were at number 31 rue Bonaparte, Paris. ^[2] From its beginning, famous artists such as Willette, Forain, Eugène Grasset, Toulouse-Lautrec, Maurice Denis, Mucha, Gauguin, Pissarro, Félicien Rops, Signac, Seurat, and Redon contributed to it. One of its most famous issues is that devoted to Le Chat noir . The magazine supported the symbolist art movement. ^[3]

From 1903, La Plume sponsored weekly poetry events which included famous poets such as Max Jacob and Alfred Jarry. ^[4] The magazine folded in 1914. ^[1]

References

1. "Guide to the European Nineteenth-Century Rare Journals at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University". Rutgers University. March 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
2. Christopher Reed (2010). The Chrysanthème Papers: The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème and Other Documents of French Japonisme. University of Hawaii Press. p. 13. ISBN   978-0-8248-3345-9 . Retrieved 16 November 2016.
3. Clara Elizabeth Orban (1 January 1997). The Culture of Fragments: Word and Images in Futurism and Surrealism. Rodopi. p. 26. ISBN   90-420-0111-9 . Retrieved 31 May 2015.
4. Linda Wagner-Martin (1 October 1997). Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press. p. 74. ISBN   978-0-8135-2474-0 . Retrieved 31 May 2015.