Origines et développement de l'art international indépendant

Origines et développement de l’art
international indépendant
[Origins and Developments of Independent International Art]
Musée du Jeu de Paume | Paris 1937 | 16 x 25 cm | stapled
Rare first edition of the catalogue for this exhibition that took place at the Jeu de Paume from 30 July to 31 October 1937 at the initiative of a committee composed of Georges Braque, Jean Cassou, Mme Cuttoli, André Dezarrois, Paul Eluard, Henri Laugier, Fernand Léger, Louis Marcoussis, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Raynal, Georges-Henri Rivière and Christian Zervos.
Small sections of sun-exposure and marks on the margins of the boards.
This exhibition intends to embrace and show all of the pictorial trends from Cézanne to non-figurative art: Fauvism, Cubism, Purism, Neoplasticism, Dadaism,
Surrealism, Constructivism and, therefore, non-figurative art.
Amongst the many artists exhibited: Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Roger de La Fresnaye, Jean Metzinger, Alexander Calder, Francis Picabia, Léopold Survage, Albert Gleizes, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Odilon Redon, Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Constantin Brancusi, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Man Ray, Piet Mondrian, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Hans Arp, René Magritte, Hans Hartung
and also sculptures and objects from Oceania and black Africa.