Sculptor, painter, and abstract artist (1886–1966) who helped found the Dada movement. Signed book: Arp. First edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958. Hardcover, 8.5 x 9.75, 126 pages. The catalogue from his Museum of Modern Art retrospective, featuring many of his most famous works. Arp has drawn a large, abstract sketch—a delightful example of one of his ‘automatic drawings’—on the front free end page in pencil, signed and inscribed below “to florence and dick, j. arp.” Autographic condition: some trivial brushing to the graphite in the signature. Book condition: VG/None. Yellow cloth-covered boards; edges rubbed, with tiny tears in cloth at corners and spine-ends; gently shaken with small tear in paper over rear hinge; slightly yellowed. In protective plastic sleeve. RRAuction COA.
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