Description

San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954. Wraps, 44 pp.; 25 cm; illustrated with black-and-white reproductions throughout and color plates, two of them tipped in. Preface by Jean Cassou. In Good+ condition. Blue illustrated paper covers, white drawing and lettering on front cover; mild shelf and edge wear with some creasing, toning and soiling to edges and corners, and slight fading along spine. Staple bound, binding tight. Light foxing and toning to acknowledgments page (p. 1), lighter foxing to top edge of a few pages throughout, and mild toning. A few faint residues of erased pencil check marks; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Catalogue of the Raoul Dufy memorial exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Art (May 12 to July 4, 1954) and the Los Angeles County Museum (July 14 to September 12, 1954), the first large showing of Dufy's work in the West after his death in 1953. About 250 works lent from American and Canadian museums and private collections, among them Edward G. Robinson, are catalogued with medium, dimensions, inscriptions and lenders: paintings, watercolors and gouaches, drawings, prints, posters, illustrated books, tapestry and printed textiles. Includes Jean Cassou's appreciation, translated from the preface to the 1953 Paris memorial catalogue, a chronological biography and a brief bibliography. Color plates include The Window at Nice, The Red Orchestra, Bather of Sainte-Adresse and the tapestry Collioure. Cover reproduces Reflections of the Sun on the Beach. Printed by H. S. Crocker Co., San Francisco.