No other artist epitomizes the character of the Guggenheim Museum quite like Vasily Kandinsky, who is closely linked to the history of the museum and has been collected in depth in the permanent collection since its founding. Kandinsky accompanies the first full-scale retrospective of the artist's career to be exhibited in the United States since 1985, when the Guggenheim culminated its trio of groundbreaking exhibitions of the artist's life and work in Munich, Russia and Paris. This presentation of nearly 100 paintings brings together works from the three institutions that have the greatest concentration of Kandinsky's work in the world: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; as well as significant loans from private and public holdings. This traveling exhibition's final iteration at the Guggenheim Museum will investigate both Kandinsky's formal and conceptual contributions to the course of abstraction in the twentieth century, concentrating on his innovations in painting. Kandinsky traces the artist's vision through thematic motifs such as the horse and rider, mountainous landscapes, tumultuous seascapes, apocalyptic imagery and other religious subjects.

Kandinsky

Arts & Photography

Barnett, Vivian Endicott

Derouet, Christian

History & Criticism

Guggenheim Museum

Léger: Aquarelles & gouaches

Flammarion

Auguste Herbin est, avec Matisse, le fondateur du muse du Cateau-Cambrsis auquel il offre vingt-deux oeuvres en 1956. N, comme son concitoyen, au milieu des mtiers tisser, il est lun des matres incontests de la couleur. Il participe aux grandes rvolutions fauves puis cubistes. Aprs la premire guerre mondiale, il devient lun des principaux protagonistes des grands mouvements de labstraction, en particulier Abstraction-Cration et les Ralits Nouvelles . Fondateur de labstraction en France, il a marqu le sicle de faon magistrale. Cette exposition qui lui est consacre, regroupera une slection significative denviron cent cinquante oeuvres, aujourdhui conserves dans les grands muses et collections prives occidentaux europens et amricains, autour de la collection du muse Matisse, enrichie danne en anne et premire collection au monde de cet artiste.

Herbin - [exposition, Musée Matisse du Cateau-Cambrésis, 14 octobre 2012-3 février 2013, Musée d'art mode

COLLECTIF

Deparpe, Patrice

Berchiche, Céline

Claisse, Geneviève

B CHAUVEAU

kandinsky

Individual Artists

CENTRE POMPIDOU

Paperback in acceptable condition. Exhibition catalogue. French language with consecutive English translation. Item is warped and both covers and contents are rippled. Edge-worn covers are scuffed, with numerous superficial scratches and abrasions. Pages are clean but sunned around edges. Extensively illustrated. AF

KANDINSKY. L'EXPOSITION/THE EXHIBITION (BILINGUE ANGLAIS/FRANCAIS)

Fernand Léger (1881-1955) is one of the few Modernist artists that can be said to have anticipated both American Abstraction and American Pop, and to have made a deliberate relationship with American culture: He visited the U.S. several times, and during the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, he lived in exile in New York. In America, Léger found much to admire--above all, a dynamic embrace of industry sympathetic to his own quasi-Futurist love of technological energies. An early critic of Léger described him as more of a "Tubist" than a Cubist, noting the cool metal cylinders that fill his early work. It was through such motifs that the artist approached modern life, viewing industry as a force for the good and its translation into art as a Modern vernacular. "Our pictures are our slang," he optimistically declared towards the end of his stay in New York. During that time, Léger had produced some of his most important works, which found a ready audience in the younger American artists surrounding him. Paris-New York covers the artist's entire oeuvre, from the Cubist-influenced early work to the later, cheerful large-format paintings. Special attention is paid to the American dimension of Léger's oeuvre, and the volume traces his impact on American artists--primarily on Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly, but also on other late twentieth-century artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Al Held, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.

Fernand Léger: Paris-New York

Bois, Yve-Alain

Bouvier, Raphaël

Hatje Cantz

Now available in a new format, this opulent book presents Vasily Kandinsky’s major paintings from all phases of his artistic career and celebrates the artist and his groundbreaking work. This generously illustrated volume displays Vasily Kandinsky’s brilliant use of color, shape, and composition through approximately 250 full-color illustrations. Essays by the world’s leading Kandinsky experts focus on the evolution of his work throughout all periods of his career: his exploration of his Russian roots and his emigration to Munich; his attraction to the Art Nouveau and fauvist movements; the formation of the Blue Rider group; the influence of music on his painting; his years at the Bauhaus; and his late work in Paris. The book’s design allows for a thorough examination of Kandinsky’s most important works in all their extraordinary detail. Accessible, impeccably researched, and wide-ranging, this important volume offers an indispensable overview of the artist’s seminal works and a tribute to the beauty and power of Kandinsky’s vision.

Vasily Kandinsky

Benesch, Evelyn

Prestel

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