[1st American ed] Paul Klee: the thinking eye (the notebooks of Paul Klee)
First American edition, first printing, of “the first full collection of Paul Klee’s ideas on form and artistic creation.” Published in 1961 by George Wittenborn as the fifteenth installment of the Robert Motherwell-edited Wittenborn series The Documents of Modern Art. This massive volume, which includes essays, lectures, diagrams, and examples of Klee’s own artwork and student work, was edited by Jurg Spiller and translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim with assistance from Charlotte Weidler and Joyce Wittenborn. Preface by Giulio Carlo Argan. Square 4to (8.75” x 8.75”), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 542 pages including two fold-out pages, illustrated throughout in b/w and color. Several color illustrations tipped-in. Some marginal notations in pencil by previous owner, an art gallerist and artist. Spine somewhat shaken. Slight bowing to textblock. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Moderate rubbing and soiling to dj, with closed and open tears to edges. Loss to bottom third of spine.
First American edition, first printing, of “the first full collection of Paul Klee’s ideas on form and artistic creation.” Published in 1961 by George Wittenborn as the fifteenth installment of the Robert Motherwell-edited Wittenborn series The Documents of Modern Art. This massive volume, which includes essays, lectures, diagrams, and examples of Klee’s own artwork and student work, was edited by Jurg Spiller and translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim with assistance from Charlotte Weidler and Joyce Wittenborn. Preface by Giulio Carlo Argan. Square 4to (8.75” x 8.75”), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 542 pages including two fold-out pages, illustrated throughout in b/w and color. Several color illustrations tipped-in. Some marginal notations in pencil by previous owner, an art gallerist and artist. Spine somewhat shaken. Slight bowing to textblock. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Moderate rubbing and soiling to dj, with closed and open tears to edges. Loss to bottom third of spine.
First American edition, first printing, of “the first full collection of Paul Klee’s ideas on form and artistic creation.” Published in 1961 by George Wittenborn as the fifteenth installment of the Robert Motherwell-edited Wittenborn series The Documents of Modern Art. This massive volume, which includes essays, lectures, diagrams, and examples of Klee’s own artwork and student work, was edited by Jurg Spiller and translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim with assistance from Charlotte Weidler and Joyce Wittenborn. Preface by Giulio Carlo Argan. Square 4to (8.75” x 8.75”), hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 542 pages including two fold-out pages, illustrated throughout in b/w and color. Several color illustrations tipped-in. Some marginal notations in pencil by previous owner, an art gallerist and artist. Spine somewhat shaken. Slight bowing to textblock. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Moderate rubbing and soiling to dj, with closed and open tears to edges. Loss to bottom third of spine.
