THE BLACK BEAST Artistic and Literary appearing the 1st of each month N° 1, April 1935-N° 8, February 1936. Paris, Directors: Maurice Raynal and Efstrathios Tériade. Texts of René Allendy, Rogi André, Antonin Artaud, Audiberti, Jacques Baron, Jean-Louis Barrault, Louis Bauguion, J. Bouissounouse, André Breton, Jacques Brunius, Jean Cassou, Marc Chagall, André Chastel, Charles-Albert Cingria, Arthur Cravan, René Daumal, Luc Dietrich, Bernard Fay, Fernand Fleuret, Jean Follain, André Frank, Halicka, Henri Hayden, Marianne Lams, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Michel Leiris, Firmin Maillard, Henri Michaux, Marcel Moré, Pierre Morhange, Raymond Queneau, Léon Pierre-Quint, Maurice Raynal, Pierre Reverdy, André de Richaud, Gaston-Louis Roux, Jules Supervielle Tériade, Roger Vitrac. Illustrations by Audiberti, Gea Augsbourg, Balthus, André Beaudin, Georges Braque, Louis Marcoussis, Suzanne Roger, Roger Vitrac. Cover drawn by André Beaudin. Complete collection, 8 numbers in 8 issues in 1 vol. in-folio bound. The n° 1 is in proof. Some restorations. The subscription bulletin presented the magazine as follows: "La Bête Noire is only a newspaper. A journal of artistic and literary action. La Bête Noire is directed against the "cowards" of the modern spirit. And also against its profiteers. It only seeks to authenticate and to emphasize the new elements of this spirit. The Black Beast touches everything. It puts in their place those who are in place. La Bête Noire is young like Diderot, old like Alfred Jarry. The Black Beast will surprise no one, it will surprise everyone. This means that the poor beast has a lot of work to do.