345. Pile, Portoghesi & Papadakis
Three Books on Post- Modern Architectural Design

Papadakis, Dr. Andrea C. POST- MODERNISM ON TRIAL. Academy Editions: 1990.
Portoghesi, Paolo. POSTMODERN, THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY. Rizzoli International Publications: 1983. American First Edition.
Pile, John. DICTIONARY OF 20th CENTURY DESIGN. Roundtable Press Book: 1990.

20/40     SOLD: $11.50

346. Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne.
Kandinsky Exhibition Poster.
Paris: 1957

This poster was produced for the Parisian venue of the one-man Kandinsky exhibition organized by the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. The Brussels museum selected a group of 45 of Kandinsky's key works from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which then traveled in modified form throughout Europe. The Parisian venue held at the Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne was the show's second stop before traveling on to the Tate Gallery in London, the Palais Saint Pierre in Lyon, Kunstneres Hus in Oslo, and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.

The image on the poster reproduces one of Kandinsky's works from 1926, which was one of the many works by Kandinsky acquired by Solomon Guggenheim--one of Kandinsky's most important patrons. Guggenheim helped to establish Kandinsky's reputation in the United States as one of the key 20th-century modernists.

Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is regarded today as one of the pioneering figures in the development of modern abstract painting, for he was one of the first artist to create purely non-representational paintings. Kandinsky painted his first abstract watercolor in 1910 and began formulating his important theoretical study, 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art', which was published originally in German in 1912. In this work he examined the psychological effects of color and made comparisons between painting and music. Together with the German painter Franz Marc, Kandinsky became a leader in the influential Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) movement, an expressionist group. He and Marc edited a Blue Rider almanac in which they reproduced art from all ages.

200/400     SOLD: $143.75

347. Gaunt, William.
The Surrealists.
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1972

50/100     SOLD: $46.00

348. Mourlot, Fernand.
Picasso Lithographe. Vol. IV 1956-1963.
Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1964

French text

400/600     SOLD: $517.50

349. Hendricks, Jon.
Fluxus Codex.
Detroit: Harry N. Abrams, 1988

With an introduction by Robert Pincus-Witten.

100/200     SOLD: $80.50