Toulouse Lautrec - Odilon Redon: Museum of Modern Art Tenth Loan Exhibition, February 1 - March 2, 1931
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Toulouse Lautrec - Odilon Redon: Museum of Modern Art Tenth Loan Exhibition, February 1 - March 2, 1931 Details
Yellow softcovers VG, minor surface soiling along edges, Abbott, as museum's first director provides the introduction to this early major exhibit. 1000cc, 105 lots mentioned plus list of some of Lautrec's friends and characters for his artworks, useful. Exhibition shown at Hecksher Building, 730 Fifth Avenue. Modest quarters for the new museum were rented in the Heckscher Building at 730 Fifth Avenue (corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street) in Manhattan, and it opened to the public on November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash. A. Conger Goodyear, the former president of the board of trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, became president of the new museum. At the time, it was America's premier museum devoted exclusively to modern art, and the first of its kind in Manhattan to exhibit European modernism. This is an early high grade representative catalogue. Read more
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