Leger and Purist Paris A Tate Gallery Art Exhibition 18 November 1970 - 24 January 1971

Golding, John (Book & Preface Author; Green Christopher (Co-Author); Foreword by Sir Norman Reid

Published by Boston Book & Art Publishers for The Tate Gallery, 1970

About this Item

Gift quality first edition hardcover in rusty butternut colored paper covered boards that are lightly sprung at the open ends (see image). No weird smells, or marks. No names, tears or soil in the glossy 108 pp text and matte grey paper index. I see two tidy black marker lines in the index, with an errata slip laid in. Original, unclipped (and unpriced) white background color illustrated dust wrapper shows soil at flap folds and near gutter/spine area from storage. Large 1933 b/w photo of Fernand Leger on rear panel. This is the first attempt to survey from an objective, historical standpoint, the various currents of formalist art that were informing the Paris scene during the nineteen twenties. The most vocal of the Paris painters were Ozenfant and Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) who together launched the purist movement in 1918. But of all the artists working in France at the time it was Leger who spanned and combined the greatest number of idioms, and his relationship to the Purists has been taken as the pivotal point of this survey. The texts and the selection of paintings and sculpture are the work of John Golding, a painter and lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a young art historian Christopher Green who also teaches at the Courtauld. Seller Inventory # 46363

Bibliographic Details

Title: Leger and Purist Paris A Tate Gallery Art ...

Publisher: Boston Book & Art Publishers for The Tate Gallery

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition.