Arturo Schwarz
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Arturo Schwarz (b. 1924, Alexandria, Egypt) is an Italian art historian, lecturer, art consultant and curator of international art exhibitions in Milan who amassed a large collection of the works of Marcel Duchamp, André Breton, Man Ray and Jean Arp and other 20th century artists. He is also a writer and poet.
In 1998 he donated his 700-piece collection of Dada and Surrealist art to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Schwarz is also known for his writings about Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Surrealists and Dada.
[edit] Selected works
- (Editor) The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, H. N. Abrams (New York, NY), 1969, reprinted, Delano Greenidge (New York, NY), 1997.
- Marcel Duchamp: Sixty-six Creative Years; From the First Painting to the Last Drawing, Gallery Schwarz (Milan, Italy), 1972.
- New York Dada: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Prestel Verlag (Munich, Germany), 1973.
- Almanacco dada: Antologia letteraria-artistica, cronologia e repertorio delle riviste, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1976.
- Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination, Rizzoli International (New York, NY), 1977.
- André Breton, Trotsky, et l'anarchie, Union Generale d'Editions (Paris, France), 1977.
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