Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

New York: Pierre Matisse, 1942. 8vo. Printed catalogue for the "Artists in Exile" exhibition, held at Pierre Matisse's gallery in New York, from March 3-28, 1942. Signed in a variety of color inks by all 14 of the exhibition's artists, including Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, Andre Breton, Marc Chagall, Andre Masson, Fernand Leger, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Lipchitz, Pavel Tchelitchew, Amedee Ozenfant, Matta Echaurren, Eugene Berman, and Ossip Zadkine. Illustrated with a photographic group portrait of the artists, by George Platt Lynes. Original stiff staple-bound yellow wrappers, printed in green.

A fine and rare copy of this catalogue for the "Artists In Exile" exhibition, signed by all 14 participating artists. The exhibition opened on March 3, 1942 at Pierre Matisse Gallery in the Fuller Building in New York City, the eponymous gallery of Henri Matisse's youngest son. The works mounted in the show represented the cutting edge of European avant-garde, and perhaps more significantly, were each created by artists who had escaped the increasing fascism and totalitarianism in Europe. The works represented many of the modern styles that had been classified as "Degenerate Art," including Dada, Surrealism, Cubism, and De Stijl. Many of the artists would go on to make significant postwar contributions in their fields.