'Yves Tanguy' - Katharina Schmidt, Prestel, 1982

Edited by Katharina Schmidt

Published by Prestel, 1982

Paperback, 282 pages

64 paintings in colour, a bunch in b&w

Language: German

ISBN: 3-7913-0616-2

Catalog of the retrospective at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 17-Oct-1982 to 2-Jan-1983

Verdict: v v good.  Currently the book I turn to most often when I need a fix.

It's in classic art book format, with the bits that nobody reads at the front, a juicy print section in the middle and ephemera at the back.

Tanguy's entire career is covered but, painting-wise, there is a bias towards the '20s and '30s.  The later years are not so well covered.

First 120 pages = text (in German) with lots of black & white illustrations (photos, paintings by Tanguy and others, etc).  The print quality here is okay.  Fairly detailed if a bit grey.

Paintings (colour and b&w) = 112 pages

- Colour prints are very good quality, and there are 64 of them

- Mostly given a page each, good size but with a decent white border (which I prefer to full page, generally)

- Only one double-page spread

Drawings and Exquisite Corpses = 20 pages

Catalog of works in exhibition = 14 pages

Biography with b&w photos = 12 pages

I managed to get mine for 12 quid, and would place in the "10 - 25 quid" bracket.