(KANDINSKY, WASSILY.) Rebay, Hilla. Wassily Kandinsky Memorial. Advance Copy with Typed Letter Signed by Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Curator, Hilla Rebay, to Royal Cortissoz. Book is 4to, wrappers with mounted cover illustration, moderately worn, front cover loose, edges reinforced. Typed Letter Signed by Rebay to Cortissoz, single 8vo page, on Guggenheim stationery, 9 March 1945, plus 8 leaves on onionskin, containing 2 articles and a publications list. New York, 1945
Rebay writes the great art critic and author, Cortissoz, about the Kandinsky Memorial Exhibition the Guggenheim opening that week (70 years ago this spring), enclosing an advance, improperly bound copy of the book and enclosing 2 articles, titled "On Composition 8" and "On the White Edge," both from their second publication (both with some corrections and underlining in Rebay's hand). She mentions her translations of the artist's recent posthumously discovered autobiographical material and that it is published in the Memorial.
