Ascher Squares Designed by Matisse, Moore, Derain, Sutherland, Hitchens, Hodgkins, Laurencin, Cocteau and Others

Sitwell, Sacheverell

Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1948. Pamphlet. Decorative brown, stapled wraps with bw lettering. Tan overlay (with museum information) glued (intentionally) across lower third of front cover. 6 interior pages with 4 color plates. VG- interior; front cover has some rubbing and ex-lib. number in ink at bottom. Spine splitting but secure. Item #155280

With an introductory essay by Sacheverell Sitwell and color plates by Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Robert Colquhoun, and Henry Moore. Includes a list of artists who designed for Ascher. Beautiful plates. Zika Ascher (3 April 1910 – 5 September 1992) was a Czech artist and designer who became pre-eminent in the related fields of British textiles, art, and fashion. He created his own textile company, which made its name with experimental fabrics and scarves designed by famous contemporary artists. This exhibition catalogue details the works and reproduces 4 of them in color, as well as stating their edition size. This appears to be the same publication put out by the Lefevre Gallery in London the same year, which would explain the pasted-on label.