FS: ART BOOKS[25 titles]
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Barron, Stephanie: German Expressionist Sculpture ; (Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, 1983). Catalog of an exhibit organized by the
Los Angeles County Museum Stiff pictorial paperwraps Tall 4to.
224pp. In color and duotone throughout . German Expressionist
Sculpture during the first part of this century. More than 150
sculptures represented in bronze, wood, stone, plastic and porcelain by
33 artists including Archipenko, Max Beckmann, Kathe Kollwitz,
Emil Nolde, Egon Schiele and many others. Biographies of each artist.
Index. Condition is VG. US$20.00
Barrow, Terence. THE ART OF TAHITI and the neighbouring
Society, Austral and Cook Islands. London: Thames & Hudson 1979.
Small 4to, 96 pages. Over 50 color plates, color, b/w, painting
exhibition catalogue. Price: $12.00
Bazin, Germain. A History of Art From Pre Historic Times To The
Present. NY: Bonanza Books 1959. Hardback, 8vo, illustrated, index,
574 pages, dj shows light wear, o/w VG Price: $10.00
Berenson, Bernard. : The Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
Hardback, 340pages., illustrated with 16 plates. Oxford Clarendon
Press 1930. Berenson was a noted art historian. Corners of cover
lightly rubbed, top of spine chipped, else in GOOD condition.
ASKING: $12.00
Boudaille, Georges Gustave Courbet: Painter in Protest.Greenwich,
CT: New York Graphic Society, 1969. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" 151pp., 15
color plates, 102 b&w illus., chronology, biblio., index. The study
examines the 19th Century realist not only in terms of his influence on
style and technique, but as active protagonist in the turbulent social
and political history of France from 1848 to 1871. In protected dj with
small tear, else VG condition. ASKING: $12.00
Bullard, E. John Mary Cassatt: Oils and Pastels :NY, Watson-Guptill,
1976. 4th printing. Paper wraps, 88 pages, 10 1/2 by 11 inches, 32 full
color plates, bibliography, chronology, index. Very good.
Price:$15.00
Cassou, De Jean(Preface by) MATISSE. Paris: Les Editions Braun &
CIE1947. hardback measures 8 1/2 by 11 inches, 24 full page color
illustrations, paintings & Drawings. Front inner hinge cracking light
age darkening to boards, top & bottom spine rubbed. Price: $15.00
Catherine Viviano Gallery NY. MAX BECKMANN IN AMERICA.
NY: 1969. Foreword by Walter Barker. 31 pages, 14 repos, wrappers.
Work from 1947-1050. Personal invitation card to opening is also
included. VERY GOOD. Price: $10.00
Covarrubias, Miguel INDIAN ART OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL
AMERICA .Color Plates And Line Drawing By The Author. N.Y.
1971. Third Printing., A. A. Knopf Inc., 360pp; xvii pp. small
4to.Illustrated. V.G. D/W- a couple of small tears. Price:$35.00
Clark, Kenneth (Intro) Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries: The
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, E. P. Dutton, 1970. 1st
Edition. HB cloth. VG+/G, 8vo, 336pp. Many PLATES, FULL PAGE
COLOR PLATES AND BLACK AND WHITE 402 masterpieces
from Metropolitan museum with encyclopedic guide for general reader
and reference for researcher. Price:$10.00
Davies, Arthur with a recollection by Walter Pach. ARTHUR B.
DAVIES [1862 - 1928] A Centennial Exhibition. Wrappers, catalogue
for the exhibition that traveled(Whitney, Rochester, and Munson
-Williams- Proctor, St. Louis, etc.) through 1962 - 1963. b/w repros.
VERY GOOD. Price: $10.00
Demenikos Theotokopoulos(El Greco). EL GRECO. By Legendre &
Hartmann. Paris: Hyperion 1937. Wrappers, spine & covers in poor
condition, contents VG. 280 b/w plates. This was an attempt to
publish all of the known paintings, as well as some of uncertain origin.
8vo, 512 pages, 32 page introduction. Price: $20.00
Du Bois, Guy Pene. JOHN SLOAN(American Artists Series) Whitney
Museum of American Art (1931) red cloth, 8vo, dj in good condition
except for spine fading, 58 page commentary on Sloan, followed by 1
« page biography, then followed by bibliography and 20 repos.
Owner's bookplate on inside front cover o/w in VERY GOOD
condition. Price: $25.00
Du Bois, Guy Pene. WILLIAM GLACKENS(American Artists Series)
Whitney Museum of American Art 1931 red cloth, 8vo, dj with small
tears and faded spine , 16 pages of text, followed 20 full-page
illustrations. Owner's bookplate on inside front cover o/w in VERY
GOOD condition. Price: $35.00
Eisenstaedt, Alfred (Photography)as told to Arthur Goldsmith. THE
EYE OF EISENSTAEDT. NY: A Studio Book (Viking) 1969,
Hardback, 199 pages, pages with black/white & color photographs(
Illustrated by Photos by Eisenstaedt.). The great Life photographer
/photojournalist; his words and most memorable images. In dust jacket
worn at edges, else G-VG. ASKING: $12.00
Elderfield, John. THE "WILD BEASTS" FAUVISM AND ITS
AFFINITIES. MOMA1976. 167 pages, 24 color, 182 b/w
illustrations, wrappers, bibliography small 4to. A fine scholarly study.
In VG condition. Price: $12.00
Elsen, Albert E. RODIN. NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1963.
Hardcover, 229 pages, dj lightly worn, bookplate removed front fly,
o/w VG.. Illustrated with 4 color, 159 b/w reproductions. Price:
$12.00
[Exhibition Catalogue] RENOIR, DEGAS: A LOAN EXHIBITION
OF DRAWINGS, PASTELS, SCULPTURES. NY: Charles E. Slakin
Gall. 1958; quarto, approximately 60 pages, b/w reproductions, paper
wrappers, very good. Price: $7.00
Famous Artists Annual: A Treasury of Contemporary Art 1. Westport,
CT: Famous Artists Schools, Inc.date not stated but in late 70's. folio,
244 pages, laminate slightly peeling on spine of dj, 1st blank pg.
creases with old price in ink, contents vg. ASKING: $12.00
Felix Landau Gallery. NORMAN ZAMMITT: RECENT WORK. LA:
Landau Gallery 1969. Wraps, 24 pages. No listing of works or
description. Just b/w plates of what appear to be works in progress.
Price: $10.00
Fischer, Wolfgang Georg. EGON SCHIELE 1890-1918. Exhibition
Catalogue from the Institute of Contemporary Art of Boston.
Illustrated, 12mo, pictorial wrappers. Name of previous owner(1st
director of U. of Ill. Art Gallery) on title page, o/w VG. Price: $15.00
Fourcade, Francois(Text by) ART TREASURES OF THE PEKING
MUSEUM. NY: Abrams (1965). Folio, cloth, chronology of painters,
covers major areas of painting and ceramics from 3rd century B.C. to
contemporary times. 87 hand tipped-in color plates are accompanied
by individual commentaries sketching the lives of the artists &
significance of individual pieces. In dust jacket(which is in protective
plastic jacket) and in VERY GOOD condition. Price: $40.00
Harris, Ann Sutherland and Linda Nochlin. WOMEN ARTISTS:
1550-1950. NY: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Knopf. 1976.
Soft cover(8 1/4" x 10 1/2"), 367pages, 204 plates, 32 in full colour,
illustrating the work of 84 artists. Biographies. Catalogue to the
exhibition at the L.A. County Museum of Art, showcasing American
and European women artists active from 1550 to 1950. "The most
complete, scholarly, historical exhibition of women artists from around
the world . Well-written entries on individual artists supply the
backbone of this vital catalogue." GOOD condition. ASKING:
$12.00
Harwood, June. CARMEAN. Pub. By Harry Carmean LA 1974. 144
pages, seven page essay precedes color plates, one page essay precedes
b/w plates. Book consists entirely of figure studies & paintings. 4to,
143 pages in dj with small tears and small water stain in one corner
and effecting a few of last pages. Price: $15.00
Helm, MacKinley. Modern Mexican Painters. NY: Harper 1941 b1st
ed. This is a richly & uniquely informative study of one of America's
schools of modern art. Artists covered: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros,
Ruiz, Dr. Atl, Merida, Galvan, Cantu, Tamayo, Lozano, Izquierdo,
Meza, Ledesma, Diaz de Leon, and many others. 205 pages in chipped
dust jacket, book plate, VG. Price: $50.00
Hess, Thomas B. WILLIAM DE KOONING. NY: Museum of Modern
Art, 1968. Wraps, 170 pp, 16 color, 99 b/w reproductions. Name of
previous owner(founder of Univ. Art Gallery at U. of Ill.) On front fly
page, o/w Good condition. Price: $15.00
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