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Ars Libri Ltd., Boston, Published July 1991. Wraps (staple bound), 57 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions and several color plates. Catalogue 84: Modern Art.
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In very good condition. Pictorial wraps reproducing El Lissitzky's 1920 design "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" (Klinom krasnym bei belykh) in golden-yellow, red, and black across front and back covers; mild shelf wear with light bumping and some color loss along edges, mild toning to the inside covers. Red endpapers front and back. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.Ars Libri's July 1991 sales catalogue, number 84 in their running series, offering 205 numbered items devoted to modern art from the late nineteenth century through the postwar avant-garde: livres d'artistes, illustrated editions, avant-garde periodicals, portfolios, original prints, monographs, and ephemera, arranged alphabetically by artist or title and profusely illustrated with reproductions of covers, plates, and interior pages.Headline entries include: the De Stijl Dutch-language edition of El Lissitzky's Suprematisch worden van twee vierkanten (Two Squares in Six Constructions), issued by Theo van Doesburg in 1922 as De Stijl no. 10-11 (item 121), at $100,000; Wassily Kandinsky's Klänge (item 96, München: R. Piper & Co., 1913), the artist's prose-poem-and-woodcut book with 56 original prints, at $45,000; and Henri Matisse's Pasiphaé: Chant de Minos (item 130, Paris: Fequet et Baudier, 1944) with 50 linoleum-cut engravings, at $27,500.Further substantial entries include André Derain's 128 original color woodcuts for Rabelais's Pantagruel (item 44, Albert Skira, 1943); E. L. Kirchner's 47 woodcuts for Georg Heym's Umbra Vitae (item 103, Kurt Wolff, 1924); Georges Hugnet's La belle en dormant (item 87) with engravings by Hans Bellmer; Pierre Bonnard's 55 etchings for Octave Mirbeau's Dingo (item 20, Ambroise Vollard, 1924); Bonnard's lithographs for Claude Terrasse's Petit solfège illustré (item 23, 1893); Maurice Denis's woodcuts for André Gide's Le voyage d'Urien (item 42, 1893); and works or documentation on or by Hannah Höch, Georges Braque, Walter Gropius, Die Brücke, the Dada movement (including the Dada Handbill, Salon Dada, and Cabaret Voltaire), Die Fläche (the Viennese Art Nouveau pattern portfolio, item 73), Oskar Kokoschka's Die träumenden Knaben, and Arthur Mackmurdo's Wren's City Churches (1883, item 126). Bibliographical references section keyed to the abbreviations used throughout.Designed by Nelida Nassar (Nassar Design). Printed by Excelsior Printing Company. OCLC 34015117.