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(SAATCHI COLLECTION). Schjeldahl, Peter, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Michael Auping, Robert Rosenblum, Rudi Fuchs, Hilton Kramer, Prudence Carlson, Lynne Cooke, Kim Levin & Phyllis Tuchman. New York: Lund Humphries in Association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1985. First Edition. Large 4to. Printed Wrappers. Exhibition Catalogs. Fine/No Jackets - As Issued. np + np + np + np, 464 color illustrations total. These four volumes comprising the landmark "Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection" publication provide a unique window into the tastes and trends of the late eighties art world. An inventory of the blue chip holdings of uber-collector Charles Saatchi, it distills that moment in time as the market reached a frenzied peak that would implode with the 1990 crash of the Tokyo real estate market. Each of the four volumes features then-newly commissioned photographs of the collection that included in-depth holdings of the works of Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Richard Tuttle, Richard Artschwager, John Chamberlain, Lucas Samaras, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Georg Baselitz, Philip Guston, Anselm Kiefer, Malcolm Morley, Sigmar Polke, Julian Schnabel, Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Borofsky, Scott Burton, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub, Neil Jenney, William Jensen, Robert Longo, Elizabeth Murray, Jim Nutt, Susan Rothenberg, David Salle, Joel Shapiro, Cindy Sherman, Terry Winters, Francesco Clemente, Richard Deacon, Howard Hodgkin, Leon Kossoff, Sean Scully, and Victor Willing. A bright, most handsome complete set of the four in wrappers (comprising ISBN numbers 0-8478-0574-3, 0-8478-0575-1, 0-8478-0576-X, 0-8478-0577-8). 0-8478-0574-3 Inventory Number: 026878