Katalog triadvacAte výstavy Spolku Vytvarnych Umelcu Manes v Praze 1907. Francouzsti impressioniste. Rijen-Listopad 1907. [Catalogue of the 21st Exhibition of the Manes Union of Fine Arts in Prague 1907. French Impressionists. October-November 1907.]

Prague: [Spolek Výtvarných Umělců Mánes], 1907. In publisher's hard paper, with a gilt blind stamp on the front panel. Cover toned and somewhat stained, the rubbed. Plates are loose. With notes, corrections and prices in pencil by contemporary hand. Overall in very good condition.. In publisher's hard paper, with a gilt blind stamp on the front panel. [4] 5-31 [1] [5 plates included] p., [10] plates, [6] 47-57 [3] p. First edition of this very early exhibition of the French impressionists in Bohemia.
The exhibition was organized by the Manes Union of Fine Arts, the Bohemian artist's association and exhibition society, who, by its international exhibitions, was responsible for the early interactions between the Bohemian artists and the foreign modern movements.
The introductory text is by František Xaver Šalda, the Czech journalist, and art critic. The catalogue contains the list of the 156 exhibited paintings by 38 (mostly French) artists, and illustrated with fifteen plates of photographic reproductions of works by Honoré Daumier, Adolphe Monticelli, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Albert Lebourg, Édouard Vuillard, Vincent Van Gogh, Théo van Rysselberghe, Maximilien Luce and Paul Gauguin.
Scarce, we could trace only three copies in institutional holdings worldwide.