SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME. DREIER Katherine S. (1877-19... Lot n° 248

International Exhibition of Modern Art arranged by the Société Anonyme for the Brooklyn Museum. November-December 1926. New York, Société Anonyme - Museum of Modern Art, 1926 In-4, 117 pp. - [3 ff.], in English. Publisher's cardboard, cover illustrated by the artist Aladjalov, cloth spine, cover with protective flaps. Exhibition catalogue entirely printed in red and black dedicated to Wassily Kandinsky, abundantly illustrated and presented as an alphabetical directory by country, with the most representative artists of modern art in 1926. Text by Katherine S. Dreier, artist, American patron of the arts, and president of the Société Anonyme. The emphasis is on French artists: Braque, Léger, Arp, Picabia, and Duchamp. Participations also of Man Ray, Crotti, Picasso, Miró, Archipenko, Lissitzky, Kandinsky etc.. This exhibition was organized by the Société Anonyme, a group led by Dreier, Kandinsky, Duchamp, for the promotion of Modern Art. Numerous reproductions. Copy of Herbert Tschudy (1874-1946), American illustrator, bearing a handwritten shipment in ink dated February 1, 1929 and signed by Katherine Dreier. Remarkable and rare publication. PROVENANCE Galleria Philippe Daverio, Milano "M/35" (stamp); mentions in pencil including "P. B. MOV. IN. AVANGUARDIE 1926". (Blunt cardboard corners, rubbed edges).