Matta/Louis le Brocquy/Kenneth Noland/Jackson Pollock

This massive catalogue accompanied a major 1987 exhibition at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum entitled Fifty Years of Collecting: Painting Since World War II.  It includes an introductory essay by Thomas M. Messer, and 123 superb oversize illustrations of works exhibited (70 in color).  Among the many featured artists were Pierre Alechinsky, Horst Antes, Karel Appel, Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Max Bill, Louis le Brocquy, Alberto Burri, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Jan Dibbets, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, Gilbert & George, Hans Hartung, Asger Jorn, Anselm Kiefer, Roman Opalka, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhardt Richter, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tapies, Victor Vasarely, Matta, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Rufino Tamayo, Wifredo Lam, Fernando Botero, Jesus Rafael Soto, Antonio Segui, Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Theodoros Stamos, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Josef Albers, Morris Louis, Hans Hofmann, Al Held, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Alfred Jensen, Kenneth Noland, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Neil Jenney, Jules Olitski, Robert Motherwell, Brice Marden, Richard Diebenkorn, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and others.

The hefty 148-page softcover volume measures 11 x 10½ inches.  The cover shows some notable wear, but the interior pages are fresh and in excellent condition.