• exhibition catalogue
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 23.5 x 18.5 cm.
  • 448 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0905005244

The Essential Cubism 1907 - 1920

Douglas Cooper, Gary Tinterow, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Louis Marcoussis, Jean Metzinger, Jacques Villon

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Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held April 27 - July 10, 1983. Includes select bibliography. "'The Essential Cubism' brings together the most important group of strictly Cubist paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints ever to have been assembled since the Kahnweiler Sales in the early 1920s. Concentrating on the four painters and two sculptors who created an enriched the new pictorial language of Cubism - Braque, Picasso, Gris, Léger, Laurens, and Lipchitz - the exhibition and this book seek to define Cubism's true nature, chart its development, and demonstrate its remarkable range of expressiveness and invention. Nearly 250 works are fully documented in the catalogue, with large reproductions (92 in color), discursive commentaries, and detailed notes on the provenance of each object. The mass of newly available information provided in these notes, amplified by a fascinating essay on 'The Early Purchases of Cubist Art', brings to light for the first time the story of the collecting and patronage of Cubism." -- from back wrapper. Texts by Douglas Cooper and Gary Tinterow. Additional artists in the catalogue include Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Louis Marcoussis, Jean Metzinger, and Jacques Villon.

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