Max Bill

Artist: Max Bill 
Author: Max Bense 
Publisher: Hanover Gallery, London 
Date: 1966 
Condition: A small format catalogue, with plain white text-only laminated covers, some light handling marks and one small biro mark to the bottom left of the front cover. Perfect-bound, with 4 each colour and black and white plates. A scarce item

Although the Swiss artist Bill was a very well-established figure by the 1960s, and had friendships and connections with several British artists (such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Marlow Moss) dating right back to the 1930s, this exhibition at Erica Brausen's Hanover Gallery was, surpringly, his first solo show in the UK. 

The exhibition of paintings and sculptures shows Bill's rigorously non-figurative abstraction to advantage, despite the small format. It is accompanied by an English translation of an essay on Bill's work by Max Bense, originally published in Art International in 1963