[EXHIBITION — MEXICAN ART]. — Mexican Art: From Pre-Columbia - Lot 15

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[EXHIBITION — MEXICAN ART]. — Mexican Art: From Pre-Columbia - Lot 15
[EXHIBITION — MEXICAN ART]. — Mexican Art: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present. Volume II. Paris, National Museum of Modern Art, May–July 1952. Paris, Les Presses Artistiques, 1952. In-8, paperback, illustrated cover in blue and black based on a Mexican artwork; approximately 35 pages of text and catalog, followed by 42 black-and-white plates on coated paper. Catalog of the second volume of the major exhibition “Mexican Art from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present,” held at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 1952. This identification of Volume II is also confirmed by public collections. Volume II is devoted to modern and contemporary Mexican art. The catalog lists a considerable number of works, notably by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Carlos Orozco Romero, Rufino Tamayo, and other major figures of Mexican modernism. The photographs show, in particular, the entries on Rivera as well as the plates reproducing Tamayo’s *Animals* and *Trembling Woman*. The 1952 exhibition marked an important milestone in the presentation of Mexican art in postwar France, bringing together pre-Columbian art and modern art in a single exhibition. The Centre Pompidou also specifically cites this Volume II of the catalog in the bibliography for Rufino Tamayo’s *L’Homme qui chante*, a work listed under no. 1079. Condition: a good copy in its original binding. Cover slightly rubbed and faded, with minor signs of wear along the edges and spine; interior clean. A small, old pencil notation reading “12” on the title page.
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