Masterpieces from The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Manet to Picasso.
Varnedoe, Kirk (introduction and commentaries).
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art,
Date Published: 1994.
Description: FIRST EDITION. Published in conjunction with exhibtion at The Museum of Modern Art. The book is FINE. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor edge and shelf wear, two small closed tears at upper spine edge. NOT remaindered. A very tight clean copy. 100 pages. Color photo illustrated. 27 illustrations, 22 in color. Dust jacket notes read: "This volume provides a fresh look at the early flowering of the modern spirit in painting through a selection of twenty-one magnificent paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection. Most of these are gifts or promised gifts to The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The group of works reproduced here is chronologically anchored by Edouard Manet's 1870 The Brioche and Pablo Picasso's 1914 Woman with a Guitar. Included are glowing canvases by Andre Derain, Georges Braque, and Henri Matisse that reflect the Rockefellers' love of the brilliantly colored work of the French Fauve painters of 1906-7, as well as paintings by Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Juan Gris, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Georges-Pierre Seurat. Each of the paintings is reproduced in full color and is accompanied by a lively commentary and full catalogue notes, references, and an exhibition history. Their presentation in this book and the exhibition it accompanies celebrates the extraordinary generosity of David and Peggy Rockefeller. Kirk Varnedoe, Chief Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture of The Museum of Modern Art, provided the plate commentaries as well as an introductory text that compares and contrasts the works as examples of changing approaches to landscape, cityscape, still life, and figure painting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Varnedoe's informed and illuminating guide addresses the concerns of painters who reshaped the art of their time in response to exciting new concepts of the relationship between the data of the senses and the work of the mind."
Edition: First editionBinding: Cloth
Condition: Fine in Near Fine DJ
ISBN: 087070155X
Book Id: 17816
Price: $27.50
