40,000 Years of Modern Art: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern, 1948

40,000 Years of Modern Art: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern. Rare catalogue of the second ever exhibition organised by the ICA, held at the Academy Hall, Oxford St., London, 20 December 1948 – 29 January 1949. A catalogue referenced in the collection of André BRETON. The exhibition presented 191 works including prehistoric, African, Polynesian, Australian, and American, as well as painting, drawing, and sculpture by Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Giorgio De Chirico, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Julio Gonzales, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Wilfredo Lam, Henri Laurens, Henri Matisse, Matta, Joan Miro, André Masson, Henry Moore Amedeo Modigliani, Ben Nicholson, Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Karl Shmitt-Rottluff, Graham Sutherland, Yves Tanguy, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, And F. E. Mcwilliam.

Includes an additional separate stapled pamphlet listing the 191 exhibits. This exhibition followed the ICA’s inaugural exhibition 40 years of Modern Art: A selection form British Collections.

Title: 40,000 Years of Modern Art. A Comparison of Primitive and Modern
Authors: W. G. Archer and Robert Melville , preface by Herbert Read
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Date: 1948(?)
Format: Softcover (18.6 x 24.4 cm)
Total Pages: 54
Images: 58 large images mostly in b/w
Condition: Very Good
Provenance: The library of art historian Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02060