Hobbs, Robert Carleton and Gail Levin — Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years (Rare Jpanese Edition)

Tokyo, Japan, Seibu Museum of Art, 1978. Softcover. Wraps. Unpaginated. 15 color, 135 bw repros. Includes essays by Robert Carleton Hobbs (Early Abstract Expressionism: A Concern with the Unknown Within) and Gail Levin (Miro, Kandinsky, and the Genesis of Abstract Expressionism). Includes sections on Baziotes, de Kooning, Gorky, Gottlieb, Hofmann, Krasner, Motherwell, Newman, Pollock, Pousette-Dart, Reinhardt, Rothko, Stamos, Still and Tomlin. Extensively illustrated. This edition is almost entirely in Japanese, with a color pictorial cover (in contrast to the blue printed cover of the English edition). VG, ex art library copy with no signs of use.