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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Slight tan to page edges. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The exhibition of the Gelmans’ paintings drawings and sculpture is a significant event at the Metropolitan Museum not only because the collection sustains a remarkable level of quality and will delight both the eye and the mind of even the most exacting visitor but even more so because most of the Gelman works fall within that province of twentieth-century art the School of Paris that has been for so long inadequately represented in our galleries. By what has proven to be a happy coincidence the clusters of impressive works by such artists as Matisse Picasso and Mir? that are present in the Gelman collection handsomely fill lacunae in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. Equally significant is the distinctive character of this collection put together with the invaluable currencies of love passion determination and even pertinacity and the result is a selection in which the viewer will sense clearly that academic training and scholarship did not blur the collector’s eye. The Gelman collection as seen at the Metropolitan Museum serves to remind us that ency- clopedic collections such as ours are in fact an aggregate formed over time of the choices of numerous collectors and curators. It is in this way that museums become palimpsests of individual tastes and biases. With her late husband Jacques Natasha Gelman has been an avid and discriminating collector. In the pursuit of the Gelmans’ singular passion for works of art they formed close (OS)