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Apollinaire, Guillaume

The Cubist Painters Inscribed by Robert Motherwell

Wittenborn and Company

1944

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First edition, illustrated copy of Apollinaire's work on cubist painters inscribed by Motherwell.

  • Guillaume Apollinaire (French).
  • The Cubist Painters: Aesthetic Meditations, 1913.
  • New York: Wittenborn and Company, 1944.
  • [36]pp.
  • Inscribed by Robert Motherwell to his architect Pierre Chareau.


Motherwell was the general editor of documents of modern art, and he has inscribed this copy to a noted French architect and his wife, "For Dollie & Pierre Chareau (1883–1950)/ with affectionate respect/ Robert Motherwell/ NYC/December 1944." Chareau had fled France to Morocco and then to the USA. In the late 1940s, Chareau completed two architectural projects in the United States. One was a house and studio for artist Robert Motherwell in East Hampton, Long Island.

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Overall wear, some minor loss to the spine, and external soiling.

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Signed, First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Art, Association items, Visual Art, Modern first editions

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