Research Catalog

Title

Masters of colour : Derain to Kandinsky : masterpieces from the Merzbacher Collection.

Publication

London : Royal Academy of Arts ; New York : Distributed in the United States by H. N. Abrams, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Rachum, Stephanie.
• Gage, John
• Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Description

171 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

"This volume reveals one of the world's finest private collections of early twentieth-century art. Long known to experts and scholars, the Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher Collection contains many masterpieces linked by a vivid use of colour. Outstanding works by Cezanne, van Gogh, Picasso, Derain, Matisse, Braque, Nolde, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Beckmann and Calder, among many others, and displayed here in all their vibrancy." "The eminent colour theorist John Gage examines the works in the collection in the context of colour theory and colour practice in early twentieth-century art, while Stephanie Rachum discusses the genesis and development of the Merzbacher Collection. A series of scholarly catalogue entries by numerous authorities completes this beautiful publication."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

• Masterpieces from the Merzbacher Collection
• Masters of color

Subject

• Merzbacher, Werner, 1928- > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Merzbacher, Gabrielle > Art collections > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Painting, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Color in art > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections > Switzerland > Exhibitions
• Painting, European > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• "First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Masters of Colour: Derain to Kandinsky, 80 Masterpieces from the Merzbacher Collection,' Royal Academy of Arts, London, 26 July-17 November 2002" -- T.p. verso.
• Includes essays by Stephanie Rachum and John Gage.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Joy of Colour: The Merzbachers and Their Collection / Stephanie Rachum -- Colour Theory and Colour Practice in Early Twentieth-century Art / John Gage -- Impressionists -- Fauves -- Ecole de Paris and Russian Constructivism -- Kandinsky -- Nolde -- Klee -- Jawlensky -- Die Brucke -- Ernst -- Campendonk -- Beckmann -- Kokoschka.

ISBN

• 1903973155 (paperback)
• 1903973147 (hardback : Thames & Hudson)
• 0810966514 (hardback : Abrams)

OCLC

50681419

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library