Lo Aparente y lo Concreto en el Arte. Fasciculo 1 - Fasciculo 5 [Author's SIGNED Presentation Copy with Original Drawing]

TORRES-GARCIA, Joaquin

Published by Asociación de Arte Constructivo / Taller Torres-Garcia, Montevideo, 1947

About this Item

First edition. Author's signed presentation with an original drawing by Torres-Garcia to María Cantú (1914 - 1959), a Mexican painter of the Taller Torres Garcia in Montevideo. 5 volumes finely bound in cloth sewn binding with custom leather slipcase. Published Montevideo: Asociación de Arte Constructivo / Taller Torres-Garcia, 1947-1948. 8vo., 7" x 8 1/2", 47; 47; 43; 43, 65pp., 'Leccion 1a' to 'Leccion 16a' - 16 lectures on Universal Constructivism, illustrated with reproductions on glossy plates. Text in Spanish. Each volume contains leaf of publication information with list of publications by A.A.C. and Taller Torres-Garcia on verso, leaf of title page recto printed, leaf of explanatory text verso printed, followed by text of lecture with final leaf of with 'terminó de imprimir'. Bound in cream buckram with heavy boards with rounded corners, burgundy and gilt spine label with titles in gilt. Enclosed in a custom red leather slipcase. Inscribed by Torres-Garcia on first leaf "A Maria Contu con el musajos afecto, J. Torres-Garcia," with drawing of a stick figure of a man standing with an oversize heart in his chest, the sun forward of his right leg, the sea and a fish on his left, and a triangle behind his right shoulder. Paper of text block has uniformly age toned, else fine in fine slipcase.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lo Aparente y lo Concreto en el Arte. Fasciculo 1 - Fasciculo 5 [Author's SIGNED Presentation Copy with Original Drawing]
• Publisher: Asociación de Arte Constructivo / Taller Torres-Garcia, Montevideo
• Publication Date: 1947
• Language: English
• Binding: Hard
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Signed