Modern Masters: Chagall to Diebenkorn | 6 Volumes

Lot includes all six books and 10% gift certificate to Marble & Canvas.

Explore some of the defining voices of modern American and European art with this distinguished collection of six illustrated monographs, museum publications, and exhibition catalogues.

The collection brings together volumes devoted to Marc Chagall, Marsden Hartley, Franz Kline, and Richard Diebenkorn, offering an engaging survey of artists whose work helped shape modernism and postwar American art. Gerald Nordland's substantial 1987 Richard Diebenkorn examines the celebrated California artist's development across abstraction and figuration.

A particular highlight is the Menil Collection's 1994 Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950-1961, a beautifully produced exhibition catalogue featuring 61 plates and examining the powerful black-and-white paintings for which Kline became internationally recognized. Specialist examples of this title can command significant prices.

Michael Auping's Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments accompanies the landmark 1987 Albright-Knox exhibition and features scholarly essays examining one of America's most influential artistic movements.

Completing the collection are Marsden Hartley and a 1991 publication from New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Together, these volumes form an excellent library for the collector, artist, student, or modern-art enthusiast.