HENRI MATISSE: PAINTINGS & SCULPTURES IN SOVIET MUSEUMS. 199 pgs.
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EL GRECO. Unpaged. Color & black & reproductions of works of art
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Ruzicka, Jeannie. GUSTAVE DORE: ILLUSTRATIONS TO DON QUIXOTE. 127 pgs.
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Leymarie, Jean et al. HENRI MATISSE. 207 pgs. Color & black & white
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Kostenevich, Albert. HIDDEN TREASURES REVEALED: Impressionist
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[Exhibition Catalogue] MARY CASSATT, 1844-1926. 119 pgs with
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Cohn, Amy (Compiler). FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA: A Treasury of American
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Sandler, Irving. THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN PAINTING: A History of
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Bazin, Germain. THE LOOM OF ART. 328 pgs with index. Color & black &
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THE COMPLETE WORK OF RAPHAEL. 649 pgs. Color & black & white
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Schoenbaum, S. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A DOCUMENTARY LIFE. 273 pgs with
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Dubly, Henry-Louis. PONTS DE PARIS: A Travers Les Siecles. 205 pgs.
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DONATELLO. 45 text pgs + 149 black & white reproductions of works of
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Gaunt, William. THE GREAT CENTURY OF BRITISH PAINTING: HOGARTH TO
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Panofsky, Erwin. THE LIFE & ART OF ALBRECHT DURER. 317 text pgs with
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Stern, Harold. MASTER PRINTS OF JAPAN: UKIYO-E HANGA. 323 pgs with
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Mathers, Powys (Trans). THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS & ONE NIGHT.
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Wilkins, Ernest Hatch & Thomas Goddard Bergin (Editors). A CONCORDANCE
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