[1st ed] Peggy Guggenheim "Art of This Century"
Catalog of the seminal avant-garde "Art of This Century" exhibition held at the Peggy Guggenheim Gallery in 1942 and published in an edition of 2500. Edited by Peggy Guggenheim with contributions from Andre Breton, Piet Mondrian, and Jean Arp. Features work by Braque, Duchamp, Masson, Van Doesberg, Malevich, Lissitzky, Kandinsky, Duchamp, Gris, Moore, Calder, Man Ray, and many others. In yellow boards, as issued, with a Max Ernst drawing reproduced on the cover. A scarce and important document of one of the most important American gallery exhibitions of the twentieth century, one that featured not only a who's who of surrealist and abstract artists, but also the exhibition design of Frederick Kiesler. Light bumping, rubbing and soiling to boards, with chipping to corners. Fraying and open tears to cloth spine. Mild damp staining to top left corner of rear board, minor damping to fore edge. Binding sound. Content clean and bright.
Catalog of the seminal avant-garde "Art of This Century" exhibition held at the Peggy Guggenheim Gallery in 1942 and published in an edition of 2500. Edited by Peggy Guggenheim with contributions from Andre Breton, Piet Mondrian, and Jean Arp. Features work by Braque, Duchamp, Masson, Van Doesberg, Malevich, Lissitzky, Kandinsky, Duchamp, Gris, Moore, Calder, Man Ray, and many others. In yellow boards, as issued, with a Max Ernst drawing reproduced on the cover. A scarce and important document of one of the most important American gallery exhibitions of the twentieth century, one that featured not only a who's who of surrealist and abstract artists, but also the exhibition design of Frederick Kiesler. Light bumping, rubbing and soiling to boards, with chipping to corners. Fraying and open tears to cloth spine. Mild damp staining to top left corner of rear board, minor damping to fore edge. Binding sound. Content clean and bright.
Catalog of the seminal avant-garde "Art of This Century" exhibition held at the Peggy Guggenheim Gallery in 1942 and published in an edition of 2500. Edited by Peggy Guggenheim with contributions from Andre Breton, Piet Mondrian, and Jean Arp. Features work by Braque, Duchamp, Masson, Van Doesberg, Malevich, Lissitzky, Kandinsky, Duchamp, Gris, Moore, Calder, Man Ray, and many others. In yellow boards, as issued, with a Max Ernst drawing reproduced on the cover. A scarce and important document of one of the most important American gallery exhibitions of the twentieth century, one that featured not only a who's who of surrealist and abstract artists, but also the exhibition design of Frederick Kiesler. Light bumping, rubbing and soiling to boards, with chipping to corners. Fraying and open tears to cloth spine. Mild damp staining to top left corner of rear board, minor damping to fore edge. Binding sound. Content clean and bright.
