100 Masterpieces IN HONOR OF THE ART INSTITUTES CENTENNIAL YEAR by Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago - 1978

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978. First edition. Orig. padded brown leatherette covers, backstrip lettered in gilt. Aeg. Fine in fine matching deluxe clam shell case, front cover illustration in gilt.. 159 pages. Folio, 35 x 26.5 cm. Limited edition copy 52 of 100 signed in ink by Georgia O' Okeeffe, Ivan Albright, Willem de Kooning, Joan Miro (each on a separate preliminary page) and Marc Chagall, the latter in blue ink below a full page illustration of one of his works, "Pour Art Inst. Chicago. Marc Chagall 1979." Index to the Text, and Index to Artists and Works. The selection herein is a compendium of major acquisitions from the 14th century to the present with color illustrated array, mostly full-page. An elegant production, silk moire endpapers, and matching silk moire lining to the publisher's gilt decorated folding box.