KANDINSKY (MASTERS OF ART)

Arts & Photography

Messer, Thomas M.

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

100 works by modern masters from the Guggenheim Museum

Barnett, Vivian Endicott, Messer, Thomas M.

100 Works by Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Barnett, Vivian Endicott

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was one of the founders of abstract painting, perhaps the most revolutionary development in 20th-century art. In this book, 40 of his major works are reproduced in full-page colorplates, each with an accompanying commentary.
Author Thomas M. Messer has selected important paintings from every period of Kandinsky's long and varied career. The early Riding Couple is followed by such masterpieces as the apocalyptic Composition VI and Composition VII, which date from the years before World War I that witnessed Kandinsky's radical breakthrough into a richly colored abstraction. Other colorplates include the complete set of four decorative panels executed in 1914 for the American collector Edwin R. Campbell and Several Circles, perhaps the finest geometric work from Kandinsky's years at the Bauhaus school in Germany. The artist's final decade, spent in Paris, is represented by such works as the valedictory Tempered Elan.
The introduction includes discussion of Kandinsky's highly original contributions to aesthetic theory, developed in the famous Blue Rider Almanac and his influential treatises On the Spiritual in Art and Point and Line to Plane. Photographs of the artist, his family, and his associates are also featured.m

Kandinsky

Harry N. Abrams

Briefly traces the life and career of the modern Norwegian painter, shows a variety of his paintings and woodcuts, and describes the background of each work

Edvard Munch (Masters of Art)

COLLECTORS COPY - LIKE NEW - Interior pages crisp and new. Edvard Munch, by Thomas M. Messer. 128 pages, with 120 monochrome illustrations and 40 full color plates. A beautiful leather bound collector's art book. [New York, NY]

Munch

Easton Press

Peggy Guggenheim: A Celebration

A catalog of the exhibition commemorates the collection's centennial

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Vail, Karole

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Guggenheim Museum Pubns

Guida, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim (English and Italian Edition)

Flint-Gohlke, Lucy

Childs, Elizabeth C.

Painting by Modern Masters (Fifty Years of Collecting : An Anniversary Selection)

Painting Since World War II (Fifty Years of Collecting : An Anniversary Selection)

This elegant volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of Peggy Guggenheim's birth in 1898. Guggenheim's granddaughter Karole Vail provides an intimate biographical account of the collector's extraordinary life, from her privileged upbringing through her friendships with such avant-garde figures as Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp. Before World War II, she ran the Guggenheim Jeune gallery in London, quickly accumulating a superb collection of Surrealist and abstract art. In 1942, she escaped to New York with Max Ernst and opened the landmark Art of The Century gallery, where she exhibited her collection and works by such emerging artists as Jackson Pollock. Guggenheim finally settled in Venice in the 18th-century palazzo that became the Peggy Guggenheim Collection after her death. Her guestbooks, pages from which are published here for the first time, reveal an astounding array of visitors and drawings by Jean Arp, Marc Chagall, and Alberto Giacometti, among others. Thomas Messer, former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, sums up the courtship that ended with the donation of Guggenheim's collection--much of which is reproduced here in full color--to the foundation. Numerous personal photographs make this centennial celebration a beautiful tribute to a life dedicated to art.

Messer, Thomas

Guggenheim Museum

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