After Picasso

Soby, James Thrall

Published by Edwin Valentine Mitchell / Dodd, Mead & Company, Hartford / New York, 1935

About this Item

Early book by the important collector & curator, published the year after the Wadsworth Athaneum Picasso retrospective he helped organize, and before the major Surrealist exhibitions in London & New York. In this book, he recognizes the new group of artists influenced by Picasso, particularly the Surrealists, including Ernst, Arp, Masson, Man Ray, Miró, Tanguy, Giacometti & Dali; there is also a section on the neo-romantics, including Berard, Tchelitchew, Berman, Tonny, Leonide. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first printing (first edition) with same date on title & copyright pages. Light wear to book, corners bumped; jacket chipped with shot tears, tear/hole near base of spine, minor waterstain to base of spine, rubberstamped $3.00 price on front flap; bold gift note on free endsheet. Text clean; xii, 114 pages, 60 b/w plates + b/w frontispiece; index. Size: Small Quarto. Seller Inventory # x1081

Bibliographic Details

Title: After Picasso

Publisher: Edwin Valentine Mitchell / Dodd, Mead & Company, Hartford / New York

Publication Date: 1935

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.