Sep 20, 2001 - Sale 1905

Sale 1905 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 3,795
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(ARMORY SHOW.) Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art . . . at the Armory of the Sixty-ninth Infantry, Lexington Avenue, Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Streets, New York. Tall thin 8vo, original wrappers, a bit soiled and creased, Demarest family owner's date and signature along top margin; discreet scattered pencil notations throughout, staples rusting as usual and with spine just beginning to separate.<\t>New York, 1913

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The Armory Show, although it ran for only one month, was among the most significant events in the history of modern art. Within its walls, Americans saw Impressionism, Neo- and Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, and modern sculpture for the first time. Cooly received by critics (including Theodore Roosevelt who unfavorably compared Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912 to a Navajo blanket), it became a beacon of inspiration to American artists such as Man Ray, Stuart Davis, and Joseph Stella. The Armory is, incidentally, directly across the street from Swann Galleries.