Ida Kar. an Exhibition of Portraits of Artists and Writers in Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union, and Other Photographs, Held At the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, March-April 1960. by Kar, Ida; MacInnes, Colin (Intro.) - 1960

London: Whitechapel Art Gallery. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, a fine copy with "26/10/60 Moscow" inked at the upper right corner of the first blank page, and across from this, Kar has signed and inscribed this copy to Sir Frank and Lady Roberts. The date and location are significant has Kar was born in Russia, moved to Iran, and then to Egypt, and then Paris. She had met a number of Surrealists in Paris, then moved back to Egypt where she worked for some years and participated in several Surrealist exhibitions. ¶ Laid into this copy of the catalog is a mimeographed transcription of a segment of the BBC program, "The Critics" (April 24, 1960) where Jacques Brunius, David Sylvester and Edgar Anstay discussed the Kar exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery. Brunius was an actor as well as a film director and an active member of the Surrealist group, but he is indentified as a "literary critic" in the mimeographed transcript.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; (36) pp .