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PB. Condizione: good, wraps (softcover). unpaginated. color illustrations (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Pictorial boards, 127 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. *** This exhibition was an historical milestone in Cold War diplomacy, representing a thaw in relations between the US and USSR. Organized with the joint cooperation of the Reagan and Gorbachev governments, this was another instance in which American museums allowed artworks to become pawns in superpower politics. Oil baron Armand Hammer acted as middleman. Size: 4to.…

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First 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. 290 pp, 189 illustrations (32 in color), bibliography. Although Hammer's appreciation of Daumier (with whom he identified, we are told, because of the artist's deep compassion for the human condition) was apparently genuine, his acquisition of the collection (or at least the bulk of it which came from George Longstreet) was done in a typically underhanded manner. As a trustee of the L.A. County Museum of Art, he convinced the board to let him buy the collection, consisting of more than 6,000 prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture, from Longstreet for a quarter of a million, with the (verbal) assurance that he would subsequently donate it to the museum. (Longstreet had offered to sell it directly to the museum for that amount.) Assuming that the offer of donation was not an outright lie (a dangerous assumption, considering its source), it was clearly intended as a tax dodge. But Hammer soon decided decided to keep the works in his own foundation, most assuredly reaping the same tax benefits. Very good, lacking insert (2nd ed.).…

Hardcover. 127 pp. Catalogue of the exhibition: National Gallery of Art, Washington; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. LCC: 867251 Very good condition; traces of spotting on edges of papers.

Condizione: Very Good. Sold by Kisharon Langdon, the UK charity offering support and opportunities for people with autism and disability.

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