Author: Baziotes, William and Michael Preble
Title: William Baziotes: Paintings and Drawings, 1934-1962
Description: Milan, Skira, 2004. Hardcover. Red boards with white lettering; red DJ with colorful illustration and white lettering; 133 pp.; richly illustrated. "Baziotes met the Surrealist emigres in New York in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and by 1940 knew Jimmy Ernst, Matta, and Gordon Onslow-Ford. In 1941, Matta introduced Baziotes to Robert Motherwell, with whom he formed a close friendship. Andre; Masson invited Baziotes to participate with Motherwell, David Hare, and others in the 1942 exhibition First Papers of Surrealism at the Whitelaw Reid Mansion in New York. In 1943, he took part in two group shows at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century, New York, where his first solo exhibition was held the following year. With Hare, Motherwell, and Mark Rothko, Baziotes founded the Subjects of the Artist school in New York in 1948."-- Publisher's description. VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/VG- (DJ is lightly edgeworn; there is a sticker from the previous owner on top corner; light scuffs and smudges.).

Keywords: American Artists, William Baziotes ; Baziotes, William ; ;


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