Item #162090 Salon d'Automne 1944 [Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif exposées au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Salon de la Libération) : inc. Exposition Pablo Picasso]
Salon d'Automne 1944 [Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif exposées au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Salon de la Libération) : inc. Exposition Pablo Picasso]
Salon d'Automne 1944 [Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif exposées au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Salon de la Libération) : inc. Exposition Pablo Picasso]
Salon d'Automne 1944 [Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif exposées au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Salon de la Libération) : inc. Exposition Pablo Picasso]
Salon d'Automne 1944 [Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif exposées au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Salon de la Libération) : inc. Exposition Pablo Picasso]
Salon d'Automne 1944 [Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif exposées au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Salon de la Libération) : inc. Exposition Pablo Picasso]

Salon d'Automne 1944 [Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et art décoratif exposées au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Salon de la Libération) : inc. Exposition Pablo Picasso]

Paris: Durand, 1944. Red/white/blue illustrated French patriotic wraps with French blue lettering. 64 pp. with no illustrations. Separate sheet listing the group of surrealist artists exhibiting. Fair. Front cover detached and with two clean tears at left edge, some chipping to right edge. Title page missing (?) Age toning in general to other pages, but everything else tight. With a few small notations in pencil, apparently denoting artists whose works the catalogue owner especially wanted to see. The detached cover would look stellar if framed! Item #162090

A very scarce copy of the catalogue from the first post-liberation Salon d'Automne, held at Salon d'Automne (Paris), 6 Oct. - 5 Nov. 1944. "The Salon d’Automne was established as an alternative to the conservative official Salon. It was also an alternative to the Salon des Indépendants, which was liberal but had a juryless policy that often led to mediocrity. The founders of the Salon d’Automne were a group of artists and poets that included Eugène Carrière, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Rouault, Édouard Vuillard, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Émile Verhaeren, under the leadership of the architect Frantz Jourdain. They decided to form their own organization with the aims of welcoming any artist who wished to join, selecting a jury for exhibitions by drawing straws from the new group’s membership, and giving the decorative arts the same respect accorded the fine arts...The first Salon d’Automne was held on October 31, 1903, at the Petit-Palais. The organizers chose autumn as the time of year for their shows because most other exhibits in Paris took place in the spring and summer." (Encyclopedia Britannica); "In August 1944 came the Liberation of Paris, and the first Autumn Salon to be held in the newly freed city. This time Picasso is given a room of his own that he fills with examples of his wartime production. It is a triumphant return for Picasso, marred, however, by disturbances that have remained unattributed. On Nov. 16, 1944, Matisse wrote a letter to Camoin: "Have you seen the Picasso room? It is much talked about. There were demonstrations in the street against it. What success! If there is applause, whistle." One can guess who the demonstrators might have been -- cronies of the Fauves, still ranting against the Judeo-Marxist decadent Picasso." (Michele C. Cone, Matisse and the Nationalism of Vichy, 1940-1944, artnet Magazine); The "Exposition Pablo Picasso" appears on page 71 of the catalogue.

OCLC: 501487191

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