Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 292

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEXICAN ART.) Museum of Modern Art. Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art. Prelminary Proof Copy. English and Spanish text. Hundreds of photographic plates and reproductions. 4to, pictorial burgundy cloth stamped "Preliminary Proof Copy" on front cover; dust jacket. From the collection of the Museum of Modern Art director of exhibitions and publications, Monroe Wheeler, signed by him and additionally signed by 9 artists and committee members including miguel covarrubias, roberto montenegro, josé clemente orozco, nelson a. rockefeller, justino fernandez, alfonso caso, manuel toussaint, ramon beteta. The guide to the first comprehensive American collaborative exhibition on Mexican art by the MoMA in conjunction with the Mexican government. With numerous pieces of ephemera concerning the exhibition including publication photos, banquet dinner invitation, and a large folding graph of the history of Mexican artistic culture. New York, 1940

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with--Westheim, Paul. El Arte de Tamayo. Spanish and English text. Reproductions of works by Rufino Tamayo, a few in color. Thin 4to, patterned wrappers; some Tamayo-related material tipped in. inscribed and signed by tamayo to wheeler on title. Mexico: Ediciones Artes de México, 1957.