Matta (Gallerie Rene Drouin) (with an essay by Andre Breton).
 
Paris: Rene Drouin, 1947. 
 
Small squarish octavo, unpaginated. First edition of this exhibition catalogue, with a lengthy essay by Breton. Illustrated with three tipped-in reproductions, as welll as a three panel, folding color lithograph, and an color lithographed wrappers. Also with: Matta, Mai 1949, a second smaller catalogue for a Matta exhibition at Gallerie Rene Drouin. This second catalogue illustrated in black and white, and with short essays by Michel Tapie and J. Le Forojulien.  Both pieces very good. 
$350 -
 
 
 
Preliminaires sur Matta.