Max Bill - Wassily Kandinsky - 1951

Max Bill – Wassily Kandinsky – Maeght, 1951 – First edition with original dust jacket

First edition of the monograph devoted to Wassily Kandinsky, published by Maeght Éditeur in Paris in 1951, with graphic design and critical contribution by Max Bill.

178-page volume, illustrated with black-and-white and color reproductions of Kandinsky’s works. Texts by Max Bill, Jean Arp, Charles Estienne, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Will Grohmann, Ludwig Grote, Nina Kandinsky, and Alberto Magnelli.

Of particular interest is the polychrome cover inspired by the celebrated 1922 series Kleine Welten (Small Worlds).

The copy retains its original transparent rhodoïd dust jacket, with «Kandinsky» printed in black, a characteristic feature of Max Bill’s editorial graphic design.

The 1951 French first edition is of interest to collectors of twentieth-century art books, historic abstraction, the Bauhaus, and Maeght editions.

Condition: copy with illustrated cover and original transparent dust jacket present. Minor signs of age are visible. Outer cardboard case absent. Condition of the inner pages to be verified.