PICABIA (Francis). 391. Super-realism. Paris, May 1924. - 2 ff. in-folio. Number 16 alone of May 1924 of this famous dada review published under the sole responsibility of Francis Picabia. The complete collection includes 19 issues published irregularly in Barcelona, New York, Zurich or Paris from January 1917 to November 1924. This issue is rare; entirely written and illustrated by Picabia, it is directed against André Breton and consists of 5 drawings and 3 texts, entitled Hypertrophie poétique, Tabac et Hyperpoésie trophique, signed under the pseudonym Cattawi-Menasse . This issue and the 3 following ones marked a turning point in the history of the review, as explained by Michel Sanouillet in the reissue of the review by Belfond and Losfeld in 1976: "These issues (16 to 19) can only be understood in the light of the literary situation. Since the end of 1923, André Breton, on the one hand, and Paul Dermée and Ivan Goll, on the other, have been fighting over the exclusivity of the corporate name "Surrealism", inherited from Apollinaire, to which each of them attached a very different meaning. Picabia, asked to give his guarantee on both sides, hesitates. He has been following Breton's efforts to find a positive outcome to Dadaism for many months now; he was irritated by the director of Literature's flirtation with the NRF, especially since Gallimard refused to accept the request that he, Picabia, made in rue Sébastien-Bottin for the publication in volume form of his latest articles. So, in May 1924, he took up the pen again and commissioned De Massot to prepare six issues - there would in fact be only four - of 391. The format changed again, as did the layout: few texts, many drawings, and these of a new style, the whole constituting a violent satire intended to undermine surrealism in general and more particularly that of Breton, who was already accused of pontificating. Restored copy with the central hori