Category: Art - General

HANS BELLMER.

By: Alexandrian, Sarane. (Hans Bellmer.)

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Rizzoli, New York, (1975).

Seller ID: 8963

87 pp, 4to, hard cover (maroon cloth) in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w reproductions. "The erotic imagery of Hans Bellmer's art is both witty and violent. Obsessed with his central theme - that of the 'Doll' - Bellmer crea tes capricious, often sado-masochistic, assemblage of parts of the female anatomy...This book, the first to present the totality of Bellmer's art, reproduces in stunning color and black-and-white illustrations the many facets of his art.. . a c o m p e l l i ng text...illuminates Bellmer's art and places it in the wide context of art history in th...
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DRAWINGS FROM LOMBARDY AND ADJACENT AREAS 1480-1620.

By: Alfred Neumeyer, preface and introduction. History of the collection by Janos Scholz.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California, 1956.

Seller ID: 19751

Unpaginated, 9" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w illustrations. The catalog of an exhibition, largely of works from the collection of Janos Scholz. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The History of the Collection of Lombard Drawings; Artists According to Geographical Location; Catalogue; Illustrations. Some corrections to the sizes of the drawings have been made in ink in the Catalogue section. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small soft corner creases on rear cover, minor edge wear/wrinkling, minor rubbing, minor browning. Very Good
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A MAGYARSAG EREDETE.

By: Antal, Endrey. Inscribed by author.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Magyar Intezet, Melbourne, 1982.

Seller ID: 20767

124 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), soft cover. B&w photographs. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. HUNGARIAN TEXT. Tartalom Jegyzek: A nemzeti hagyomany; Idegen kutfok; Finnugor utveszto; Torok fajta; A hun testverek; Perzsa kapcsolatok; A sumerok; Szubart u es a hurriak; Uj magyar ostortenet; Jegyzetek. Small red ink # 10 written on first page, small light dampness marks at top edge of pages up to page 16, very slight bump to top corner of textblock and covers, two small closed tears at gut t e r o f p a ge 15/16 - archivally taped, book slight cocked, light rubbing and wrinkling to covers, minor...
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NICHOLAS HILLIARD.

By: Auerbach, Erna.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Boston Book & Art Shop : 1964

Seller ID: 207

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

352 pp, small 4to (10" H). Over 200 reproductions of Hilliard's work, mainly in b&w. "This is the first full-length monograph to be written on the life and work of Nicholas Hilliard who lived from 1547 to 1619. The first English-born painter to gain the status of an artist recognised by the English court, he was painter, limner, engraver and goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later to James I, and is kown to have also painted portraits in oil, but it is difficult to attribute particular oil portraits to his hand. Hilliard's importance is not limited by his performance as a miniaturist, for...
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DRAWINGS OF THE MALE NUDE.

By: Bachardy, Don. Afterword by Armistead Maupin.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: Pasadena, California, Twelvetrees Press : 1985

Seller ID: 26054

ISBN-13: 9780942642186

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Unpaginated, 4to (12 1/4" H). B&w portraits by American artist Don Bachardy. Dust jacket has light wrinkling/wear - mainly in the areas of top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, slight browning to flap-folds and on spine.
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LOUIS WAIN'S CATS.

By: Beetles, Chris. With contributions from Rodney Dale and David Wootton.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge / London, Worth Press / Chris Beetles : 2011

Seller ID: 31007

ISBN-13: 9781849310260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256 pp, square (10 1/4" H x 10 1/4" D). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w reproductions of Wain's art. "During their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain's cats, dressed as humans, portrayed (the) stylish Edwardian world having fun; at restaurants and tea parties, going to the Races and the Seaside, celebrating Christmas and Birthdays, and disporting themselves with exuberant games of tennis, bowls, cricket and football. This is a titillating world of cats at play, uninhibited and slightly dangerous, with most group activities likely to turn into mishap, mayhem a...
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ISAAC JOHNSON OF WOODBRIDGE 174-1835: THAT INGENIOUS ARTIST.

By: Blatchly, John and Eden, Peter. Foreword by Peggy-Ann Monroe.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich, 1979.

Seller ID: 23007

32 pp, 8" H x 10 1/4" D, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Johnson family tree on inside of front cover. B&w illustrations. Contains: Isaac Johnson, 1754-1835 by John Blatchly and A Note on Isaac Johnson's Cartographic Style by Peter Eden. Interio r - soft crease at top corner of half the pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small crease at top corner of front cover. Very Good
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GOTTHARD GRAUBNER.

By: Boehm, Gottfried. (Gotthard Graubner.)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Deutsche Siedlungsund Landesrentenbank, Bonn, 1990.

Seller ID: 13880

76 pp, 4to (12 5/8" H), hard cover (yellow cloth with white lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. Color photo frontispiece, b&w photos, color and b&w reproductions. A retrospective of the artist's work from the 1950s to the late 1980s. Includes a short biography, list of exhibitions, and bibliography. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very small bump to top edge of rear board, a few tiny/small watermarks and very light soiling on front board. VG-
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MY FATHER AND EDWARD ARDIZZONE: A LASTING FRIENDSHIP.

By: Booth-Clibborn, Edward.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: London, Patrick Hardy : 1983

Seller ID: 8607

ISBN-13: 9780744400182

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

48 pp, 12" H. Beautifully illustrated thoughout in monotone with reproductions of Edward Ardizzone's specially produced Christmas cards. "(A) brief, but warm and personal account by Edward Booth-Clibborn of the long friendship between his father (known professionally as an artist under the name of Augustin Booth) and Edward Ardizzone. They met as art students, though Augustin was several years older than Edward, and remained lasting friends until Augustin died in 1969. The lasting bond of their friendship is the succession of Christmas cards which Edward and Catherine sent out annually and...
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THE RAILWAYS PAINTINGS OF DON BRECKON.

By: Breckon, Don. Introduction by Roger Malone.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Greenwich Editions : 1995

Seller ID: 19204

ISBN-13: 9780862880507

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

80 pp, oblong 8vo (8 7/16" H x 10 1/2" D). Profusely illustrated with colour reproductions, b&w drawings. "Admirers of Don Breckon's unerring blend of a faultless eye for detail and an irresistible nostalgia for the era of steam will need no prompting to acquire and treasure this beautifully produced book. It is all here: the shapely majesty of the locomotives (with the emphasis on the Great Western, but with all the Big Four well represented), set in landscapes of a 'classical Constable calmness'; the stations, accurate in every evocative period detail; the hidden rituals of the engine shed; ...
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THE IMPRESSIONIST AND THE CITY: PISSARRO'S SERIES PAINTINGS.

By: Brettell, Richard R. and Pissarro, Joachim. Edited by Mary Anne Stevens.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Dallas, Museum of Art : 1993

Seller ID: 24415

ISBN-13: 9780300053500

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

230 pp, 4to (11 5/16" H). With publisher's plain cardboard slipcase. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions. "In the final decade of his life Camille Pissarro abandoned his experimentation with Neo -Impressionist technique and developed new forms of pictorial expression that drew more on the Impressionism of his earlier career. During this period - from 1893 to 1903 - Pissarro, besides continuing to explore the landscape genre that had been his main subject-matter, also began to grapple with urban scenes, and his paintings of Paris, Rouen and the busy ports of Dieppe and Le Havre beca...
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ON MAPS AND MAPPING. ARTSCANADA SPRING 1974, ISSUE NUMBER 188/189.

By: Brodzky, Anne Trueblood, Editor. (John Warkentin, Peter Perrin, Robert Arn, John Noel Chandler, Roald Nasgaard, Joe Bodolai, Dan Tooker.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Society for Art Publications : 1974

Seller ID: 26101

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

106 pp, 11 1/2" H. B&w and colour illustrations. Articles: Discovering the Shape of Canada, by John Warkentin; Mapping Time: Three New Works by Vera Frenkel, by Peter Perrin; The Moving Eye: Nancy Graves Sculpture, Film, and Painting, by Robert Arn; Reflections on/of Michael Snow, by John Noel Chandler; Claude Breeze: Canadian Atlas and the Expressionist Landscape Tradition, by Roald Nasgaard; Borderlines in Art and Experience, by Joe Bodolai; "How to Chart a Course": An Interview with William Wiley, by Dan Tooker. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very...
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WONDROUS STRANGE: THE WYETH TRADITION - HOWARD PYLE, N.C. WYETH, ANDREW WYETH, JAMES WYETH.

By: Bruni, Stephen T. / Wyeth, Betsy James / Wolff, Theodore F. / Crosman, Christopher. Foreword: David Michaelis. Introduction: Susan C. Larsen.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Bulfinch Press : 1998

Seller ID: 27661

ISBN-13: 9780821225370

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

168 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). "Swashbuckling, romantic, mysterious, fantastical - all these words can be used to describe the art in this splendid book of 'wondrous strange' paintings by four great American artists. Conceived and entitled by Betsy James Wyeth, (it) focuses on an aspect of American realism that stems from the great turn-of-the-century illustrator Howard Pyle and continues in the work of his student N.C. Wyeth, N.C.'s son Andrew Wyeth, and his grandson Jamie Wyeth. The thread that links the four artists is an imaginative, often disquieting, dreamlike imagery - 'the incarnation of...
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MAN RAY. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM. IN FOCUS SERIES.

By: Callis, Jo Ann; Featherstone, David; Foresta, Merry; Naef, Weston; Naumann, Francis; Tashjian, Dickran; Ware, Katherine. Deborah Gribbon, foreword. Katherine Ware, introduction.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum : 1998

Seller ID: 23220

ISBN-13: 9780892365111

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good

144 pp, 7 5/8" H. 4 b&w post cards laid in. "Man Ray (American, 1890-1976), the prolific photographer, painter, assemblagist, draftsman, sculptor, and filmmaker, is the subject of this installment in the In Focus series, which is devoted to photographers whose pictures are well represented in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Musuem. Approximately fifty of the three hundred Man Ray prints owned by the Museum are discussed in this volume by Katherine Ware, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs. Also featured (here) is an edited transcript of a colloquium on the artist's life and...
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THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. 2 VOLUME SET IN SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE BINDING.

By: Cellini, Benvenuto. Edited and translated by John Addington Symonds. Introduction by Royal Cortissoz.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Brentano's : 1906

Seller ID: 30445

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good

360 pp + 387 pp - 2 volume set - 9 7/16" H. Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindings (stamped "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, England" on verso of free front endpaper of both volumes) - dark red leather spines/corners, spines with five raised bands & gilt lettering/decoration, patterned paper on boards, with pattern repeated on endpapers, top edges gilt, red ribbon bookmarks. Title page continues:"Edited and Translated by John Addington Symonds with a Biographical Sketch of Cellini by the Same Hand Together with an Introduction to This Edition Upon Benvenuto Cellini, Artist and Writer, by Roy...
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ROCKWELL KENT. MASTERS OF WORLD PAINTING SERIES.

By: Chegodayev, Andrei, compiled and with introduction by. (Rockwell Kent.)

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: New York / Leningrad, Harry N. Abrams / Aurora Art Publishers : 1979

Seller ID: 28648

ISBN-13: 9780810920828

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated, 12 3/4" H. 15 tipped-in colour reproductions (many double-page) and 3 b&w illustrations in text. As well as the Introduction by Andrei Chegodayev, the book includes a section entitled "Rockwell Kent on Art: Excerpts from 'It's Me O Lord' ", and a Biographical Outline. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear at top of rear hinge, small punch hole and very small soiling mark on rear cover
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THE FORBES COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN PICTURES AND WORKS OF ART. 19 & 20 FEBRUARY 2003. CHRISTIE'S GALLERY VIEWING GUIDE.

By: Christie's

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Christie's International Media Division : 2002

Seller ID: 23633

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

32 pp, 10 1/2" H. Introduction, auction listing, colour photographs. Amendments sheet laid in. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor rubbing.
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THE MAKING OF A WAR ARTIST. DAVID COBB: THE FALKLANDS PAINTINGS.

By: Cobb, David. Inscribed. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Conway Maritime Press : 1986

Seller ID: 25641

ISBN-13: 9780851773247

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

95 pp, 9 5/8" H. Map endpapers, b&w and colour reproductions. **INSCRIBED ON HALF TITLE PAGE: "FOR S______ L____, WHO KNEW ABOUT SEA-WARFARE LONG BEFORE I WROTE THIS BOOK FROM DAVID COBB 10 OCTOBER 1989. "** "David Cobb's desire to follow in the footsteps of the great war artists of the past was a lifelong ambition. In this autobiographical book he explains how everything in his varied and successful career as a marine painter seemed to be preparing him for such an undertaking. His chance came in 1982 when he was invited to visit the Falkland Islands immediately after the Argentine surren...
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Image for AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY VICTORIAN ARTISTS IN ENGLAND / EXPOSITION DE PEINTURES ET DE DESSINS PAR DES ARTISTES ANGLAIS DE L'EPOQUE VICTORIENNE.

AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY VICTORIAN ARTISTS IN ENGLAND / EXPOSITION DE PEINTURES ET DE DESSINS PAR DES ARTISTES ANGLAIS DE L'EPOQUE VICTORIENNE.

By: Comfort, Charles F., foreword. Introduction By Allen Staley.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada : 1965

Seller ID: 12425

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

103 pp, small 4to (10" H). Color and b&w reproductions. Bilingual text (English/French). Exhibition catalogue. "The reign of Victoria lasted from 1837 to 1901. The present exhibition attempts to give a balanced representation of the entire period. Howerever, a period of over sixty years in the rapidly changing world of the nineteenth century could hardly show anything approaching uniformity of style. Even the most cursory view of this exhibition should demonstrate that no one set of generalities is adequate to describe the variety of works created during the era, all of them 'Victorian'...
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RIPPER: THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER SICKERT.

By: Cornwell, Patricia.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Seattle, Thomas & Mercer : 2017

Seller ID: 30863

ISBN-13: 9781503936874

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

553 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w and colour illustrations - maps, photographs, reproductions. "(A) comprehensive and intriguing expose of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it. Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - ...
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Category: Art - General