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MODERN ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM
New Arrivals - Part 1
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ARTEXT offers the following new arrivals in modern art,
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Part 1 - Monographs:
(ATLAN #A9760)
Ragon, Michel. ATLAN. 90 pp., 8 tipped in color plates, 33 b&w
illus., exhibs., bibliog. including illustrated books by Atlan.
4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. Paris, Georges Fall, 1962. Fine/
About fine. $45.00.
(BRANDO #A7314)
Thomas, Bob. MARLON: Portrait of the Rebel as an Artist. 276 pp.
biography of Marlon Brando. 8vo, 1/4 cloth, d.j. First U.S. ed.
New York, Random House, 1973. Rem stamp lower edge, else fine,
in near-fine d.j. $12.00.
(CENDRARS #A9811)
Chefdor, Monique, ed. and intro. BLAISE CENDRARS: Modernities &
Other Writings. xxiv, 133 pp., bibliog. First English lang
translation of these important writings by a noted Surrealist.
8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. Lincoln and London, Univ. of Nebraska
Press, 1992. As new. $25.00.
(COROT #A9669)
Tinterow, Gary, et al. COROT. 496 pp., 344 illus., 179 in color.
The most lavish book on Corot thus far, with fine scholarly
texts, notes, bibliog. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. As new. (Pub. at $60.) $35.00.
(COURBET #A9766)
Boston. Museum of Fine Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
GUSTAVE COURBET 1819-1877. 147 pp. exhib. cat., 86 illus., 5 in
color. Essays by Henry Clifford, Rene Huyghe. Extensive cat.
entries, chronol., exhibs., bibliog. Small sq. 4to, wrps. 1960.
V.G.+. $25.00.
(DISNEY #A9748)
Stern, Michael. Stern's Guide to DISNEY Collectibles. 127 pp.,
hundreds of color photos, detailed descriptions of many pieces,
price guides by subject. Handy guide for serious collectors and
yard-sale fanatics alike. Values updated 1992. 4to, wrps.
Collector Books, 1992. Fine. $14.50.
(DORE #A9698)
Roosevelt, Blanche. Life and Reminiscences of GUSTAVE DORE.
xxxii, 502 pp., nearly 100 illus. throughout, list of illus. A
very nice copy of this important biography. Stout 8vo, orig.
black orange and gilt stamped pictorial cloth covers. First ed.
New York, Cassell, 1885. V.G.+ (covers bright; light wear head
and foot of spine; interior fine.) $110.00.
(EICHENBERG #A7298)
EICHENBERG, FRITZ, Illus. Puss in Boots. (36) pp. text by
Charles Perrault. Pictures printed directly from original wood
engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Red and black printed spine,
covers and endpapers; text images in black. Type designed and
set by hand by Helen Gentry. Eichenberg's first work after his
arrival in America. 5 x 3 inches, printed cloth backed, pict.
printed bds., patterned endpapers, gatherings sewn. New York,
Holiday House, 1936. V.G.+. Text block fine and bright; a bit of
rubbing lower margin front cover and upper corner tips; a few
small faint spots rear cover. $90.00.
(EISENSTEIN #A9864)
Leyda, Jan, ed. and SERGEI EISENSTEIN. Film Essays and a
Lecture. 220 pp., 8 b&w photos, notes, full bibliography of
Eisenstein's writings, index. Foreword by Grigori Kosintsev.
Important text and a valuable reference. 8vo, cloth, d.j. New
York, Praeger, 1970. About fine, in near-fine d.j. $22.50.
(FLAHERTY #A6396)
Griffith, Richard. The World of ROBERT FLAHERTY. 165 pp., over
70 photographs. Major biography of this key documentary
filmmaker. 8vo, cloth, pictorial endpapers, tec. First ed. New
York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. Near-fine. No d.j. $25.00.
(HASSAM #A9704)
THAXTER, CELIA and CHILDE HASSAM illus. An Island Garden. 126
pp., several garden plans, illus. Delightful text by this New
Hampshire author with illustrations by Childe Hassam and
enhanced by Sarah Wyman Whitman's poppy flower cover design for
the 1894 edition repeated here in blind. 12mo, green ribbed
cloth, pictorial blindstamp. 2nd ed., 1st printing. Boston and
New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1904. Near-fine. (Corners and spine
extrems. lightly rubbed; clean crisp copy.) $55.00.
(INNESS #A9675)
Cikovsky, Nikolai and Michael Quick. GEORGE INNESS. 214 pp.
exhib. cat., approx. 65 color plates, 21 b&w text illus., notes,
bibliog. A major monograph. 4to, cloth, d.j. Los Angeles County
Museum of Art and Harper and Row, 1985. Fine/Near-fine. $35.00.
(JOHNS #A9588)
Basel. Kunstmuseum. JASPER JOHNS: Working Proofs. 343 pp., 177
b&w illus., 52 color plates, biog. note, bibliog. Interview by
Christian Geelhaar with Johns in German and English; all other
texts in German only. 8vo, color pictorial wrps. Original
exhibition catalogue. 1979. About fine crisp copy (with very
light scuffing along flap fold). $100.00.
(JOHNS #A9479)
Geelhaar. Christian. JASPER JOHNS: Working Proofs. 326 (1) pp.,
178 b&w illus., 64 color plates including four-panel foldout,
bibliog., index of titles, checklist of Johns' graphic work
1960-79. Often confused with the Basel exhib. cat. of the same
name, this publication reprints in English the texts from the
Basel catalogue, including Geelhaar's interview with Johns, but
contains additional plate in b&w and 12 additional color plates,
thus constituting an enlarged ed. An important reference work.
Stout 8vo, (grey, black and white) pictorial self-wrps., in
matching pictorial papered slipcase. First enlarged ed.
Petersburg Press, 1980. Fine, in about fine slipcase with light
rubbing at cornertips. $180.00.
(KEATON #A9800)
KEATON, BUSTER and CHARLES SAMUELS. My Wonderful World of
Slapstick. 323 pp., 27 b&w illus. Unabridged republication of
the first ed. with a new introduction by Dwight Macdonald and an
expanded filmography. 8vo, wrps. Da Capo, 1982. Fine. $11.50.
(KOBKE #A9828)
Schwartz, Sanford. CHRISTEN KOBKE. 153 pp., 76 illus., most in
color, chronol., index. First major monograph in English on this
important 19th-century Danish painter. 4to, cloth, d.j. New
York, Timken, 1992. As new. $32.00.
(KOKOSCHKA #A9762)
Boston. Institute of Contemporary Art. OSKAR KOKOSCHKA: A
Retrospective Exhibition. 88 pp. exhib. cat. listing 126 works,
48 b&w photogravure plates, 8 color plates, chronol., exhibs.,
bibliog. Intro. by James Plaut with a letter from the artist.
Newspaper review clipping laid in. 8vo, wrps. New York,
Chanticleer, n.d. (1948). V.G. (covers scuffed; spine edges
rubbed). $14.00.
(LICHTENSTEIN #A9773)
Boston. Institute of Contemporary Art. ROY LICHTENSTEIN: The
Modern Work, 1965-1970. 16 pp. exhib. cat., checklist of 25
works, 14 illus., color coverplate. Text by Elizabeth Sussman.
Oblong 4to, stapled wrps. 1978. Near-fine. $20.00.
(LISZT #A9801)
Allsobrook, David Ian. LISZT: My Travelling Circus Life. vi, 215
pp., b&w illus., bibliog., index. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First U.S.
ed. Carbondale, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1991. Fine/Fine.
$28.50.
(MALLE #A6920)
MALLE, LOUIS and Jean-Claude Carriere. Milou in May (May Fools).
79 pp. film script, 25 stills. Foreword by Carriere. 8vo, wrps.
London, Faber and Faber, 1990. V.G.+ crisp clean copy. Film adv.
sticker front cover, rem. mark lower edge. $9.00.
(MARCA-RELLI #A9711)
Amon, Santiago. MARCA-RELLI 1976-1978. 120 pp., 55 illus., list
of illus. Covers Marca-Relli's collages of 1972-77. Text in
English / French / Catalan. Large sq. 8vo, cloth, d.j.
Barcelona, Poligrafa, 1978. About fine, in v.g.+ d.j. with
rubbing to spine extrems. and upper corners; tiny surface scrape
front panel. $30.00.
(MATISSE #A9708)
Schneider, Pierre. MATISSE. 752 pp., 930 illus., 220 in color.
Massive and important monograph on Matisse with fine quality
color plates, many uncommonly reproduced. Stout folio, cloth,
d.j. First ed. New York, Rizzoli, 1984. About-fine, in near-fine
d.j. (a few small abrasions to d.j.) $180.00.
(MICHAUX #A9865)
La Charite, Virginia A. HENRI MICHAUX. 148 pp., chronol., notes,
bibliog., index. 8vo, cloth. First ed. Boston, Twayne, 1977. As
new. $30.00.
(MICKIEWICZ #A9767)
MICKIEWICZ, ADAM and TADEUSZA GRONOWSKIEGO. Pan Tadeusz. 405
pp., illus. throughout with a dozen double-page fold-outs. Quite
a lavish production of Mickiewicz's most famous work. In Polish.
4to, orig. cloth, gilt decoration, intaglio stamped cameo
portrait framed in gilt on front cover, pictorial endpapers,
tec. Warsaw, Ksiazka i Wiedza, 1950. V.G. (Lower corners
lightlly bumped.) $36.00.
(MONDRIAN #A9732)
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. MONDRIAN: The Diamond
Compositions. 110 pp., 74 illus., some in color, notes.
Scholarly text by E.A. Carmean, Jr. The only exhibition to
gather together one of Mondrian's most important lifelong
compositional series which run from his first Dutch abstractions
to his last unfinished painting Victory Boogie-Woogie. 4to,
wrps. As issued. First ed. 1979. About fine. $55.00.
(MORRIS #A9814)
New York. Guggenheim Museum. ROBERT MORRIS Mind Body Problem.
321 pp., 156 illus. in color and b&w, bibliog. Scholarly
critical texts by Rosalind Krauss, W.J.T. Mitchell, Maurice
Berger, Annette Michaelson, Thomas Krens, David Antin, Jean-
Pierre Criqui, Kimberly Paice. Stout 4to, die cut stiff board
wrps. 1994. As new. $30.00.
(MUNCH #A9757)
Tokyo. Idemitsu Museum of Arts. EDVARD MUNCH: The Frieze of
Life. 155 pp., 96 excellent quality color plates, numerous b&w
illus., chronol., checklist of exhibition, bibliog. Texts by
Arne Eggum, Nobuyuki Senzoku, Gerd Woll, Iris Muller-Westermann.
Includes a series of self-portraits and other works not included
in the London version of this exhibition and many of which have
never been exhibited before. In Japanese. 4to, wrps. First ed.
1993. As new. $30.00.
(NOLAND #A9716)
New York. Jewish Museum. KENNETH NOLAND. 36 pp., 16 b&w illus.,
4 color plates. Important text by Michael Fried. Sq. 8vo, wrps.
Ed. of 1500. 1965. V.G.+ (covers lightly scuffed). $36.00.
(OPPENHEIM, D #A9736)
Heiss, Alanna and Thomas McEvilley. DENNIS OPPENHEIM: Selected
Works 1967-90, And the Mind Grew Fingers. 200 pp., 194 illus.,
43 in color, chronol., exhibs., colls., video and filmography,
extensive bibliog. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, The
Institute for Contemporary Art, PS 1, and Abrams, 1992. As new.
(Pub. at $49.50). $32.00.
(PICASSO #A9685)
Basel. Galerie Beyeler. PICASSO Painted Linos. Exhib. cat.
listing 58 works, 35 beautifully reproduced color illus. of
Picasso's linocut prints (1 tipped-in), 1 photo. Intro. by Aldo
and Piero Crommelynck. 4to, wrps. 1970. Fine. $47.50.
(PICASSO #A9683)
Paris. Le Point. PICASSO special issue. Le Point, revue
artistique et litteraire XLII (October 1952). 56 pp., approx. 45
b&w photos of Picasso and his work, 8 articles by Raynal,
Kahnweiler, Reverdy, Besson, Tristan Tzara, Paul Gay, Pignon,
Roy. In French. Small 4to, green wrps. 1952. V.G.+. $60.00.
(REPIN #A9850)
Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl. ILYA REPIN and the World of Russian
Art. xiv, 247 pp., 8 color plates, 65 b&w illus., notes,
bibliog., index. New scholarly biography of this important 19th
century Russian painter whose work inspired many artists of the
next generation from Valentin Serov to Mikhail Vrubel. 8vo,
cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, Columbia Univ. Press, 1990. As
new. $35.00.
(ROTTERDAM #A9241)
Ratcliff, Carter. PAUL ROTTERDAM. 147 pp., 57 full-page illus.,
most in color. Interview with artist. Text in English / French /
German. 4to, cloth, d.j. Zurich, Storrer, 1982. About fine, in
near-fine d.j. with touch of crinkling upper edge. $40.00.
(RUSKIN #A9756)
RUSKIN, JOHN. Elements of Perspective. xii, 130 pp., 80 illus.
12mo, olive cloth, gilded decorative spine. London, Routledge
and Dutton (New Universal Library), n.d. V.g.+ (spine extrems.
and cornertips lightly rubbed). $15.00.
(THACKERAY #A9643)
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. The Irish Sketchbook of 1842. 477
pp. with Thackeray's pen and ink illus. throughout. Orig.
published in 1843. Stout 8vo, cloth, top edge gilt. First
Kensington ed. New York, Scribner's (Complete Works Vol. XX),
1904. Near-fine. Crisp bright copy whose only flaw is a sunned
spine. $15.00.
(TOULOUSE-LAUTREC #A2754)
Novotny, Fritz. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. 200 pp., 163 illus., 32 in
color, notes on illus., bibliog., index of locations. 4to,
cloth, d.j. First ed. London, Phaidon, 1969. Crisp near-fine
(bit of shelf scuffing lower edge), in fine d.j. $40.00.
(VAN GOGH #A9759)
Glasgow. Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries. The Age of VAN GOGH:
Dutch Painting 1880-1895. 261 pp. exhib. cat., 109 works, all
illus. in color with commentary on each work, over 50 additional
b&w illus., notes, bibliog. Scholarly texts by Richard Bionda,
Carel Blotkamp, Enno Endt, Rieta Bergsma. In English.
Comprehensive coverage of the major and minor figures of The
Hague School as well as artists such as Jongkind and Alma-Tadema
whose careers took place primarily outside of Holland. An
outstanding reference work. 4to, wrps. First ed. Zwolle,
Waanders, 1990. About fine. (Pub. at $40.00). $36.00.
(VAN GOGH #A9671)
Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila. VINCENT VAN GOGH and the Birth of
Cloisonism. 384 pp., over 300 b&w illus., 12 color plates,
biographical data, index. Published to accompany a major
exhibition, the text includes a substantial essay and individual
commentaries on 143 works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Bernard,
Anquetin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Laval, Meyer de Haan, Denis,
Serusier. 4to, cloth, d.j. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario,
1981. V.G.+, in V.G. d.j. (Light corner bumping, else clean
bright copy; dustjacket scuffed, but no tears). $35.00.
(VILLON #A9249)
Rouen. Musee des Beaux Arts and Grand Palais, Paris. JACQUES
VILLON. 157 pp. retrospective exhib. cat. of 157 works with
short entries for each, b&w illus. throughout, 15 color plates,
notes, biog., exhibs., bibliog., photos of artist. Texts by Paul
Eluard and Dora Vallier. In French. Sq. 8vo, pictorial wrps.
1975. V.G.+ bright copy (light spine creasing, one corner-tip
crease, faint spot of soil rear cover). $30.00.
(VUILLARD #A7713)
Preston, Stuart. EDOUARD VUILLARD. 128 pp., 114 illus.,
including 40 full-page color plates, bibliog. 4to, cloth, d.j.
New York, Abrams, 1985. As new. $21.00.
(WEEDEN #A9612)
WEEDEN, HOWARD. Shadows on the Wall. Unpag. (32 pp. portraits
and verse). 8vo, orig. white cloth, gilt lettering. Huntsville
AL, 1899. V.G.+. Light cover soil. $75.00.
(ZIEGFELD #A9802)
Farnsworth, Marjorie. The ZIEGFELD Follies: A History in Text
and Pictures. 194 pp., illus. throughout, checklist of Ziegfeld
Follies productions 1907-1931, index. Intro. by Billie Burke
Ziegfeld. 4to, papered bds., d.j. London, Peter Davies, 1956.
Fine/Near-fine. $18.50.
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