Exquisite multi-signed book: The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces. First edition, first printing. Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally & Company / Printed and bound by R. R. Donnelley & Sons and Lakeside Press, 1978. Bound in fine dark red Morocco leather with gilt titling to the spine, and accompanied by its matching red leather clamshell presentation box with a large gold lion on the front lid, 12 x 15.5, 159 pages. Signed inside on separate pages in ballpoint by adored artists Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Ivan Albright, and Willem de Kooning. In fine to very fine condition, with some wear to the clamshell case. Produced in honor of the 100th birthday of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1979, this large, gorgeous book contains color reproductions of 100 of the most magnificent art treasures that the Art Institute of Chicago holds in trust, including paintings by the artists who signed the book.
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