Description
Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Published 1973. Paperback, xviii + 106 pp.; 24 cm; text in French; illustrated with 16 color plates and 90 black-and-white plates, with an 8-page supplement laid in.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Illustrated card covers with mild shelf wear, light bumping and creasing to edges, and some color loss along the edges. A scratched patch at the foot of the spine from a removed price sticker. Binding tight, pages lightly toned. Otherwise unmarked.Catalogue for the major Cubism retrospective mounted in 1973 as the twenty-fourth Mai de Bordeaux at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, then shown at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Preface by Jean Cassou, the poet and founding director of the Musee National d'Art Moderne; foreword by Gilberte Martin-Mery and Jacques Lassaigne; with a 1961 interview with Georges Braque. The 181 catalogued works survey the movement through Picasso, Braque, Leger, Gris, Delaunay, Gleizes, Metzinger, Marcoussis, Duchamp-Villon, and Zadkine, alongside the African masks and sculpture that informed it. With bibliography and exhibition history.