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DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR.Group of 73 issues from the collection of Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Museum of Modern Art from 1935 to 1967. Hundreds of lithographs, color, and black-and-white reproductions. Folio, original illustrated wrappers; some laid into manilla envelopes with Wheeler's labels, but many still in their original mailing folders from galerie maeght with address label to Wheeler and their "Hommage de l'Éditeur" card laid in. All regular, not limited, editions. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler. Paris: Galerie Maeght, 1946-82
a large and comprehensive collection of the great art journal of the mid-20th century belonging to the groundbreaking director at the museum of modern art. Wheeler spearheaded the Museum's new direction in exhibitions and illustrated publications. Before moving to New York, he was a publisher for six years in Europe and befriended the major modern artists of the day, including Chagall, Miró, Picasso, Braque, Derain, Kandinsky, and Renoir among many others represented in the pages of Derrière Le Miroir, and commissioned numerous livres d'artiste from them. While condition varies somewhat, the majority of issues in this group are, for the most part, barely touched or opened from their cartons and as fresh and bright as when published.
