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. 8vo, In yellow boards, as issued, with a Max Ernst drawing reproduced on the cover. 157 pages with b/w illustrations. A scarce and consequential document of one of the most significant 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. Enhanced by an inscription on the FFE from Peggy Guggenheim to the acclaimed avant-garde German/American artist and experimental filmmaker Hans Richter, whom she often addressed by his surname alone in her correspondence (“To Richter/From Peggy”). Guggenheim gave Richter (1888-1976) his first one-man show in the United States at the Art of This Century Gallery in 1946—both his iconic wartime scroll paintings ands his recent films were exhibited—and collaborated with him on the Art of This Century Films organization two years later. From the collection of art gallerist and artist Barbara Hollander and likely from the extensive art reference library of the Indian Space painter Steven Wheeler, whose estate Hollande represented. Front hinge weakened, overall binding sound. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Light fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends. 1” paint smudge to inner corner of front cover, probably contributed by one of these artists. Scarce signed, and an important association copy of this landmark publication.
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. 8vo, In yellow boards, as issued, with a Max Ernst drawing reproduced on the cover. 157 pages with b/w illustrations. A scarce and consequential document of one of the most significant 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. Enhanced by an inscription on the FFE from Peggy Guggenheim to the acclaimed avant-garde German/American artist and experimental filmmaker Hans Richter, whom she often addressed by his surname alone in her correspondence (“To Richter/From Peggy”). Guggenheim gave Richter (1888-1976) his first one-man show in the United States at the Art of This Century Gallery in 1946—both his iconic wartime scroll paintings ands his recent films were exhibited—and collaborated with him on the Art of This Century Films organization two years later. From the collection of art gallerist and artist Barbara Hollander and likely from the extensive art reference library of the Indian Space painter Steven Wheeler, whose estate Hollande represented. Front hinge weakened, overall binding sound. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Light fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends. 1” paint smudge to inner corner of front cover, probably contributed by one of these artists. Scarce signed, and an important association copy of this landmark publication.
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