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1952 Exhibition Catalog; ‘PABLO PICASSO: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings. February 19 – March 15, 1952. Curt Valentin Gallery Formerly Buchholz Gallery. 32 East 57th Street. New York’.

Beautiful & Usual Deep Blue colored cover (not typical of these catalogues). Measures 4.75 x 6.75 inches. 20 pages in all with black & white photographs, along with titles, dimensions and provenance (some works on loan). EXCELLENT CONDITION.\Acquired at estate sale in New York, 1990’s.

Part of the museum of Modern Art Archives / Collection, New York.

Very suitable for framing / frame featured is an example only / Can only ship item unframed.

Asking USD$95.

role	Dealer/Gallery
dates	1937-1955
city	New York City
state	NY
sex	n/a
historical notes	Curt Valentin was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1902. After completing his education, he became a dealer in modern art in Berlin. In 1934 he returned to Hamburg and worked in the Buchholz Gallery, owned by Karl Buchholz. This gallery comprised two businesses: a bookstore in the front, and, in the rear, an art gallery devoted to the modern art classified as “degenerate” by the Nazis. In 1937 Valentin emigrated to the U.S. with a sufficient number of modern German paintings to open a gallery under the Buchholz name in New York City. In 1951 the gallery was renamed the Curt Valentin Gallery. Widely respected as one of the most astute dealers in modern art, Valentin organized influential exhibitions and attracted major artists to his gallery. His enthusiasm for sculpture is revealed by the artists and exhibitions he selected. He also published several distinguished, limited-edition books in which the writings of poets and novelists were illustrated by a contemporary artists. Valentin died of a heart attack in Aug. 1954, while visiting Marino Marini in Italy. One year later the gallery was liquidated and some of the work from it was sold at a Parke-Bernet auction in Nov. 1955. Several of Valentin’s artists, as well as his assistant, Jane Wade, joined the Otto Gerson Gallery, which, after Gerson’s death in 1962, became the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery.

Research Curt Valentin:

https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/MASNewsLetter_Summer2022.pdf