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Poklady moderniho umeni ze sbirek Guggenheimovy nadace: Narodni galerie v Praze, Sternbersky palac, Listopad-Prosinec 1988
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Poklady moderniho umeni ze sbirek Guggenheimovy nadace: Narodni galerie v Praze, Sternbersky palac, Listopad-Prosinec 1988
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| Notes: Narodni galerie v Praze, Published 1988. Hardcover, 77 pp.; 28 cm; text in Czech; first edition (Vydani prvni); illustrated with 50 color plates. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to front. Light bumping to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pale sage-green pictorial dust jacket (front reproduces Kandinsky's "Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2," 1913, from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection) with a few small nicks and short edge tears, light creasing along edges, and mild shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Catalogue for the exhibition "Treasures of Modern Art from the Collections of the Guggenheim Foundation," organized jointly by the Narodni galerie v Praze and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and held at the Sternbersky palac, Prague, November-December 1988. Drawn from both the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York) and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice), the exhibition presented fifty major works tracing twentieth-century modernism from Cubism through Abstract Expressionism. Includes works by Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger, Gleizes, Metzinger, Marcoussis, Robert Delaunay, Kupka, Duchamp, Picabia, Balla, Severini, Kandinsky, Marc, Klee, Modigliani, Chagall, de Chirico, Malevich, Mondrian, van Doesburg, Schwitters, Arp, Ernst, Dali, Tanguy, Magritte, Delvaux, Brauner, Miro, Dubuffet, and Pollock. Foreword by Jiri Kotalik (director, National Gallery in Prague) and Thomas M. Messer (director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation); English-to-Czech translation by Jiri Kotouc; color photography by David Heald, Myles Aronowitz, Carmelo Guadagno, and Robert E. Mates. Issued in a print run of only 4,000 copies.Contents: Foreword (Messer, Kotalik); The Modern Art Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (Messer); Index of Artists; Reproductions; Catalogue of Works. | |||||||||||||
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