Author: ZAFRAN, ERIC. PARET, PAUL
Title: Surrealism and modernism : from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum
Description: Hartford : Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press. New Haven 2003. First Edition. The Wadsworth Atheneum's remarkable collection of twentieth-century art is due to a succession of adventurous directors and curators. This beautiful book showcases the museum's holdings and provides fascinating details about their acquisition. In 1931. the famed Chick Austin. director of the Atheneum from 1929 to 1944. purchased works by Dalí. Calder. Picasso. Ernst. and others. Austin's successor. Charles Cunningham. added works by Stanley Spencer. Henry Moore. Maillol. and Marini. In more recent years. examples of American modernists and expressionists such as Georgia O'Keeffe. Arthur Dove. Willem de Kooning. and Jackson Pollock have also been acquired. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 151 pages; Description: 151 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Subjects: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art --Exhibitions --Modernism (Art) --Art --Connecticut --Hartford. Notes: Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum and held at the Phillips Collection. Washington. DC. Oct. 6. 2003-Jan. 18. 2004 and other locations. Includes bibliographical references and index. by Eric Zafran and Paul Paret.Weight in Kg appr.:

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