[moderately worn, slight loss of paper spine covering at both ends of spine, a bit of soiling to covers, general wear at edges and corners]. (37 full-page B&W facsimiles) Catalogue of an exhibition/sale held at The Print Club of Philadelphia from November 10 to 27, 1930. The artists whose works were featured include Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Juan Gris, Marie Laurencin, Amadeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Pablo Picasso, and Jacques Villon. Includes a price list, laid in, of the thirty items in the exhibition that were for sale; oddly, although there were more pieces by Henri Matisse on the for-s... View More...
[first volume is VG+, with only light handling wear; second volume is Good only, due to water-stain on rear cover]. (B&W and color photographs) Catalogues for a 3-day auction held at Sotheby's Japan establishment, with "all lots flown with care to Tokyo by BOAC." The first two days covered four categories: Antiquities and Persian Pottery; European Decorative Paintings; Chinese and Japanese Works of Art; and European Arms and Armour. The final day was devoed entirely to Impressionist and Modern Paintings. Among the latter were works by Picasso, Renoir, Chagall, Gauguin, Monet, Dufy, Bracque,... View More...
[a bit of wear to bottom edges of book's covers; jacket very slightly wrinkled along top edge, tiny tear at top front hinge]. (100 color plates) One hundred examples, reproduced in color, of the art of Shanghai-born painter Cheng Shenghu. (All text is in Chinese, except: the title and publisher information (taken from the front cover and front jacket panel), a brief blurb on the front jacket flap, the list of editorial board members, the introduction by Huang Chunyao, and the titles (captions) of the individual paintings.) From the jacket flap: "Mr. Cheng Shenghu was born in May 1960 in... View More...
[very light rubbing to covers, teensy bumping to a couple of corners of the rear cover]. (B&W photo frontispiece, art reproductions) Contains 38 full-page reproductions of Picasso's lithographs (18, in black and white) and linocuts (20, in color), plus a few additional illustrations accompanying the introductory essay, "Historical Perspectives: Lithography and the Linocut," by R. Stanley Johnson. View More...
[a beautiful brand-new copy that had been in its original shrinkwrap until it was removed by us to confirm the edition; both the book and the translucent jacket are in pristine condition, with the jacket now encased in a new mylar cover]. (color plates, B&W photographs) Publication issued to accompany the exhibition of the same name, organized by the author (William Agee) and presented at The Geffen Temporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from March 7 through July 25, 1999. Includes a chronology of the life and work of the artist (1923-1994) and a selected bibliography. **... View More...
[lovely copy, no discernible wear to book, the jacket showing only tiny traces of edge- and surface-wear]. (color illustrations, photographs, etc.) INSCRIBED ("For ____") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, with an additional small drawing of a spider dangling from the last letter of his signature. "This illustrated autobiography charts Aldridge's life as a graphic entertainer, covering his whole exuberant career from 1963 up to the present." The book incorporates hundreds of reproductions of his "imaginative designs and intoxicating, colour-rich images [which] captured and dreams and hal... View More...
[faint handling wear only]. (B&W and color photographs) SIGNED(?) and INSCRIBED(?) on the title page -- probably by the artist (see below), although quite honestly it's pretty much an illegible scrawl. The limitation page states: "Five hundreds [sic] copies of this book were printed ... on the occasion of the unveiling of Eliseo Mattiacci's Occhio del cielo; the 26th of May 2005." The book contains several brief critical texts (all in both Italian and English; by Massimo Ciavolella, Luigi Ballerini, Paolo Fabbri, and Francis M. Naumann), accompanied by photographs of sculptor Eliseo ... View More...
[beautiful, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs, drawings) "Over the past 50 years Eyvind Earle has produced an extraordinary body of work, including film, poetry, animation, watercolors, serigraphs and oil paintings. In fact, his contribution to the world of art in the 20th century is too vast to take in all at once. [This book is] a definitive record of an important American painter, whose story unfolds against the dramatic landscape of Depression era America. Here is the story of a young struggling artist with a relentless dream. An explosiv... View More...
(no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [bump to bottom front corner, no other significant wear]. (24 tipped-on color plates) INSCRIBED (in Italian) and SIGNED twice by Eva Fischer: on the title page, dated Roma, October 15, 1959; and on the ffep, dated Studio City [California], 1977. Reproductions of 24 paintings by Fischer, dated between 1954 and 1957, with a brief introductory essay about the artist and her work in five languages: Italian, English, French, German and Spanish. [NOTE: That apparent "crack" visible along the spine in the scanned image is an anomaly of the scan, NOT an actual fla... View More...
[book is flawless, with no discernible wear; jacket had some minor wear and very slight wrinkling along top and bottom edges, light surface wear and faint soiling]. (color photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED in the year of publication by the artist/sculptor on the second ffep. From the Introduction by Peter Frank: "Howe navigates a geometic abstraction descended directly from Picasso, Bracque, Kandinsky and Klee. He infuses it not just with life, but with liveliness to sustain that tradition as a living, viable discourse. Howe pushes the appearance of a utilitarian object as far as possi... View More...
[book has no discernible wear; jacket is moderately rubbed/scuffed, a little dog-eared at base of spine, with a short tear and associated diagonal crease at bottom right-hand corner of front panel]. (color and B&W reproductions) INSCRIBED in 1993 and SIGNED by the artist on the second front endpaper; apparently it was "re-gifted" by the original inscribee, as a line has been drawn through his name and another name added above it (in a different hand). A catalog of the work of this Polish-born Jewish artist (1923-1996), who spent part of World War II in a concentration camp; following the war... View More...
[spine slightly turned, a touch of shelfwear to bottom edges; jacket shows only light surface wear]. (color art reproductions, B&W photographs) "This volume includes fifty-nine of Hopper's most important works in full color as well as original works by fiction writers and poets that pay homage to, or make reference to, the ways in which Hopper pictured our world." Published in conjunction with the Whitney Museum's exhibition of the same name. Contributors: Paul Auster, Ann Beattie, Tess Gallagher, Thom Gunn, John Hollanders, William Kennedy, Galway Kinnell, Ann Lauterbach, Gail Levin,... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice clean book, no discernible wear; jacket shows some light rubbing and very faint soiling, but would rate Near Fine if not for the price-clipping]. (B&W and color photographs; facsimiles) "Here is a book that ranges through all aspects of modern living, examining man-made things, discussing why they look as they do. The more than 250 illustrations come from museums, art galleries, picture archives, industry, science, advertising, the mass media, and artists and designers all over the country. . . . The book observes no artificial limits, but embraces design as a univer... View More...
[very light wear to bottom edge, minor external surface scuffing/scratching]. (graphs, diagrams, charts, etc.) The second book published by the Zurich-based graphic design firm NORM, which was co-founded by Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs in 1999. Internationally recognized designers of fonts and typefaces for print media, they received the Swiss Grand Prix for Design in 2011, in which connection they were cited for their "markedly systematic and skilled approach to typography [and] their extremely innovative vision within the field of design." Their work includes numerous book desig... View More...
[book is nice and clean, with no significant wear; jacket shows wear and various tiny nicks along top and bottom edges, light rubbing overall]. (line drawings) Termed "an extravaganza" by its author, this is a partly-fictional, partly-factual story based on incidents in the lives of Isabella Stewart Gardner and artist John Singer Sargent, "whose intimacy lasted from the day he first painted her portrait in 1888 until she died in 1924." View More...
[lacks original slipcase, but a very nice book with no discernible wear; jacket shows only minor traces of handling]. (color plates, B&W reproductions) Book issued in conjunction with the gallery exhibition of a 1904 painting by Picasso, "the sole remaining masterpiece of the blue period not to be found in a museum." Incorporates an illustrated essay about the creation, meaning and significance of the work. Text in French and English. View More...
[minor shelfwear and light soiling to cloth at bottom edges of covers, no other significant wear; jacket shows only light rubbing, mostly to rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the book's subject, the noted Western painter and sculptor; the inscription is to film director George Sherman and his wife, and makes reference to "the 'Duke'" (John Wayne), who was directed by Sherman in eight "B" Westerns in the late 1930s -- immediately prior to his ascent to major stardom with STAGECOACH -- and one late-career effort (for both of them), BIG JAKE, in 1971. A lavishly-produced survey of the work o... View More...
(price-clipped) [considerable edgewear to paper-covered boards, light dampstaining at upper right corner of front cover (inside of book not affected); jacket spine browned, light discoloration and soiling elsewhere INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Richard Fleischer / this collector's item / in memory of our joint / efforts to immortalize / the American Fashion Industry / Lee Simonson / New York, March 1945." A collection of essays on art by the noted stage designer, whose connection with then-future film director Richard Fleischer remains obscure. Signed by Author View More...
[nice clean book with no discernible wear; jacket shows a touch of wear to a couple of upper corners, light surface-rubbing]. (color and B&W reproductions) An exploration of the life and work of Alfredo Ramos Martinez (1871-1946), who "fathered the great Mexican mural renaissance which made the names Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros world-famous." The author "has traced the artist from his early years in Mexico through the period of his European studies and his return to Mexico, and finally to his climactic experience in the United States where he left a record of his finest work before he died.... View More...
(silver paper-covered boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [minor bumping to a couple of corners, shallow dents at bottom edges of both covers, general light surface wear to covers]. The book, and the art exhibit it was published to accompany, look "at the history of post-World War II abstract art, examining the role of radically simplified form and systematic strategies in vanguard work from Central and Western Europe and North and South America. An essay rather than a survey, [the exhibition/book] tracks parallels, intersections, and divergences in the evolution of what, by the late 1960s, h... View More...
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