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The Print in Germany 1880-1933 The Age of Expressionism

By: Carey, Frances; Antony Griffiths

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, British Museum Press: 1993

Seller ID: 19231

ISBN: 0486276600

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine+ with no dust jacket

B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 272 pp
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Chagall Lithographs (Volume VI)

By: Chagall, Marc; Charles Sorlier (notes & catalog); Roger Passeron (preface)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: NY, Crown Publishers: 1986

Seller ID: 27761

ISBN: 0517564408

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in Near Fine dust jacket

Publisher's full cream cloth, black lettering on spine, Chagall's facsimile signature embossed in black on cover. Illustrated with 144 full-page, full-color lithographs. This is the final volume in the six-volume definitive catalogue of Chagall's lithographs, this volume with Chagall's work from 1980 until his death in 1985. This final volume also includes a complete catalogue of the lithographs compiled by Charles Sorlier.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, still in its original Mylar cover, is very slightly chipped...
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Chagall at the "MET"

By: Chagall, Marc; Emily Genauer (text); Sir Rudolph Bing (intro)

Price: $130.00

Publisher: NY, Metropolitan Opera Association: 1971

Seller ID: 27752

ISBN: 0814800467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Publisher's full gray tweed cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated with 52 magnificent full-page color reproductions as well as numerous additional drawings, sketches, and plans, all by Chagall. This is a study of Chagall's murals for the foyer of the Metropolitan Opera House and his designs for the set and costumes for the company's production of Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" (The Magic Flute). "The large and strikingly-beautiful illustrations of the murals include preliminary sketches, working sketches, final sketches, and close-up details of the finished works. Sum...
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The Lithographs of Chagall 1957-1962 (Volume II)

By: Chagall, Marc; Fernand Mourlot

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Monte Carlo and Boston, Andre Sauret and Boston Book and Art Shop: 1963

Seller ID: 27750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Publisher's full beige cloth, black lettering on spine and cover, Chagall's facsimile signature embossed in black on cover, Illustrated with 12 original lithographs (including the dust wrapper), seven of which are in color, as well as an additional 172 lithographs, most full-page and in color. The 172 reproduction lithographs were printed on the presses of Draeger Frere; the 12 original lithographs were printed on the presses of Mourlot Freres. Text in English.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. A la...
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Drawings for the Bible

By: Chagall, Marc; Gaston Bachelard (text)

Price: $5,500.00

Publisher: NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1960

Seller ID: 27758

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First American edition of this double issue of Verve, Vol. X, nos 37/38, with additional title-page in English. "This double number of Verve contains the drawings made by Chagall in 1958 and 1959 on biblical themes which in general he had not dealt with in his Illustrations for the Bible reproduced in Verve 33/34. The present work comprises 96 reproductions in in black and white and 24 lithographs in color, as well as a cover specially designed for this volume. The heliogravure in black and white by the master printers Draeger Frères and the lithography in color by Mourlot Frères." Printed ...
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The Jerusalem Windows

By: Chagall, Marc; Jean Leymarie (text); Elaine Desautels (trans); Andre Sauret (ed)

Price: $2,950.00

Publisher: NY, George Braziller / Andre Sauret: 1962

Seller ID: 27754

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, photographic endpapers, in mylar protected dust jacket, with the quite scarce original publisher's cardboard slipcase. Illustrated with 104 plates, 64 of which are in full color, along with two original full-color lithographs created by Chagall expressly for this edition. Text and notes by Jean Leymarie; translated by Elaine Desautels; compiled and edited by Andre Sauret. "The text was composed by hand and printed by Imprimerie Nationale de France. The 36 preparatory color designs, some in twenty colors, were transferred to the sto...
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Illustrations for the Bible by Marc Chagall

By: Chagall, Marc; Jean Wahl (text); Meyer Shapiro (intro)

Price: $3,200.00

Publisher: NY, Harcort, Brace and Company: 1956

Seller ID: 27753

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Publisher's full illustrated cloth, black lettering on spine, facsimile of Chagall's signature, black, on cover. Illustrated with 105 full-page B&W reproductions in heliogravure of the etchings by Chagall for the illustration of the Bible; 16 full-page lithographs in full-color, and 12 lithographs in B&W, in addition to two color lithographs (the cover and extra title page), specially created by Chagall for this book. . Ex-Library with fewer than the usual markings. Aside from the library stamps, the volume is unmarked, and all of the illustrations are clean and bright. The unclipped dust ...
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Chagall (A Portfolio of 15 Tipped-in Chagall Lithographs)

By: Chagall, Marc; Werner Schmalenbach (Introduction)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cologne, Uffici Kunstverlag: N.D.

Seller ID: 27871

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's cream card wraps, with the first plate tipped-in on cover. nd (c. 1960). Still in original glassine jacket. Text in German. Introduction by Werner Schmalenbach. . Plate No. 14 "Engelssturz" has been removed. All of the other 15 plates are present, and in perfect condition, bright and clean. VERY GOOD. . Color Lithographs. Folio 13" - 23" tall. (34) pp
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Chagall: Gemlde (A Portfolio of 10 Full-Page, Tipped-in, Reproductions of Chagall Paintings)

By: Chagall, Marc; Werner Schmalenbach (Introduction)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Wiesbaden & Berlin, Emil Vollmer Verlag: N.D.

Seller ID: 27872

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's cream card wraps, with the one additional plate tipped-in on cover. nd (c. 1960). Text in German. Introduction by Werner Schmalenbach. . The covers are moderately soiled, but all ten of the enclosed plates are present, and in perfect condition, bright and clean. VERY GOOD. . Color Plates. Folio 13" - 23" tall. 8, (10-plates) pp
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CHRISTIE'S SALES TO THE NATION

By: Christie's

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Christie's: 1982

Seller ID: 4757

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Christie's catalog of its privately negotiated sales of fabulous art, antiques and other national treasures to Great Britain for its national museums for the period 1956 to 1982. Publisher's glossy wraps. Lavishly illustrated. . The covers (only) show the slightest shelf-wear, else as new. FINE.. Catalog. Color Photographs. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 86, (2) pp
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THE CENTURY OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS

By: Cogniat, Raymond

Price: $14.95

Publisher: NY, Crown Publishers:

Seller ID: 5588

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full straw linen, gilt lettering on spine. nd (1967). Folio. 207 pp. Profusely illustrated with 110 excellent reproductions in color (several of which are tipped-in) and 64 two-color drawings, Printed on heavy stock. Translated from the French by Graham Snell. There is an old damp-stain on the rear cover not affecting any of the illustrations, all of which are bright and clean, else unmarked and fine. GOOD.. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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Georges de la Tour and his World

By: Conisbee, Philip

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, The National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 14615

ISBN: 0300069480

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gold endpapers. Profusely illustrated with numerous full-color plates (many full-page) as well as B&W illustrations. Published to coincide with the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, October 1996 to May 1997. Includes essays by Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Gail Feigenbaum, Patricia Behre Miskimin, Edmund P. Pillsbury, and Leonard J. Slatkes; and also technical essays by Claire Barry, Barbara Berrie, Melanie Gifford, and Michael Palmer. Also includes Bibliography and detailed Index. ....
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ART TREASURES OF THE WORLD: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

By: Cooper, Douglas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NY, Harry N. Abrams: 1952

Seller ID: 5150

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's stiff portfolio, with 16 beautiful full color prints tipped in, as well as six pages of text and numerous B&W illustrations. In publisher's Mylar cover. . The portfolio is in fine condition, as are all of the prints. Spine mildly sunned, corners bumped, else fine. NEAR FINE. . Art Treasures of the World Series. Portfolio. Color Plates. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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THE WORLD OF MICHELANGELO 1475-1564

By: Coughlin, Robert and The Editors of Time-Life Books

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Time-Life Books: 1966

Seller ID: 8548

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's red leatherette over beige boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Spine in five compartments separated by four raised bands, in beige slipcase with color paste-on. Illustrated endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with numerous color and B&W photographs and reproductions. A volume in the Time-Life Library of Art series. Includes Chronology of Artists, Other Works of Michelangelo, Catalogue of Illustrations, Bibliography and Index. A beautiful volume, as are all in this classic series by Time-Life Books. . Both the volume and the original slipcase are in perfect, ...
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters Art and Letters

By: Cowart, Jack; Juan Hamilton; Sarah Greenough; J. Carter Brown

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Washington and Boston, National Gallery of Art / New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown and Company: 1987

Seller ID: 27124

ISBN: 0821216864

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Publisher's full white cloth, grey lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with 120 full-color reproductions of the works of Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as 11 B&W photographs. Includes "Foreword" by J. Carter Brown; "Art and Artist" by Jack Cowart; "In O'Keeffe's World" by Juan Hamilton; "From the Faraway" by Sarah Greenough; Chronology; Bibliography; and a detailed Index. This is the catalogue to accompany an exhibition organized by The National Gallery of Art entitled "Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986" held in Washington, Chicago, Dallas, and New York fr...
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THE RAINBOW BOOK OF ART

By: Craven, Thomas

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Cleveland and NY, World Publishing Company: 1956

Seller ID: 5816

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on red panel on spine, gilt lettering and border on red panel on cover, gilt Venus de Milo medallion on cover, TEG (red), red endpapers. 4to. 256 pp. Illustrated with 32 full-page, full-color plates and numerous B&W photographs. The volume is in perfect condition, except that a photograph or some other flat object was stored between the fep and the ffep, leaving some marks on both, else as new. NEAR FINE.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Joseph Wright

By: Daniels, Stephen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Tate Gallery Publishing: 1998

Seller ID: 24608

ISBN: 185437284X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's glossy pictorial wraps. Illustrated with 50 color and 13 B&W illustrations. "Joseph Wright painted some of the most powerful works of 18th-century British art: blacksmith hammering a glowing bar of iron, dramatic demonstrations on scientific apparatus, erupting volcanoes, gloomy prisons, a fashionably dressed gentleman reclining full-length in a forest. Stephen Daniels addresses this interesting diversity by looking closely at the inextricable links between Wright's heart and the different worlds of the Enlightenment movement that so fascinated and inspired him. Wright's uniq...
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Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections

By: Drandaki, Anastasia; Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi; Anastasia Tourta (eds)

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Athens, Greece, Benaki Museum: 2013

Seller ID: 24463

ISBN: 9604761560

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

This lavish, full-color publication is the catalogue accompanying the spectacular exhibition from the National Gallery of Art. Byzantine artists drew from pagan and early Christian foundations to fashion the opulent and deeply spiritual world of Byzantium (A.D. 330–1453). The establishment of Christianity as the state religion inspired the creation of luminous icons, textiles, architectural sculptures, frescoes, and mosaics to adorn basilicas throughout the empire. Prosperous monasteries produced illuminated manuscripts and preserved the legacy of ancient Greek literature, while private patr...
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Great Treasures Of The Kremlin

By: Duncan, David Douglas

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers Inc.: 1979

Seller ID: 13880

ISBN: 0517317788

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Navy boards, gilt lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with color photographs.. The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelf-wear, small tear to bottom of front panel, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE.. Folio 13" - 23" tall. 139 pp
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THE GREAT CENTURIES OF PAINTING: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: CARAVAGGIO TO VERMEER XVII Century

By: Dupont, Jacques and Francois Mathey

Price: $29.95

Publisher: NY, Skira: 1951

Seller ID: 4814

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Hardcover without dust jacket (as issued). Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Small Folio. 135, (1) pp. Illustrated with 64 high-quality, tipped-in, color plates. Translated by S.J.C. Harrison. Both the text and the color plates were printed by the Imprimerie La Concorde in Switzerland. The volume is in excellent, unmarked condition, the covers are very lightly shelf-worn, else Fine+. NEAR FINE. This is a volume in the series The Great Centuries of Painting, conceived, planned and directed by Albert Skira. This volume includes Caravaggio, Saraceni, Ter Bru...
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THE GREAT CENTURIES OF PAINTING: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: CARAVAGGIO TO VERMEER The New Developments in Art from Caravaggio to Vermeer

By: Dupont, Jacques and Francois Mathey

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Skira: 1951

Seller ID: 4815

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Hardcover without dust jacket (as issued). Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated with 64 high-quality, tipped-in, color plates. Translated by S.J.C. Harrison. Both the text and the color plates were printed by the Imprimerie La Concorde in Switzerland. This is a volume in the series The Great Centuries of Painting, conceived, planned and directed by Albert Skira. This volume includes Caravaggio, Saraceni, Ter Brugghen, Ribera, La Tour, Velazquez, Le Nain, Champaigne, Franz Hals, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Poussin, Claude, Baschenis, Baugin, Zubara...
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Picasso

By: Elgar, Frank; Robert Maillard; Francis Scarfe (trans)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY, Frederick A. Praeger: 1956

Seller ID: 27796

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Publisher's full black cloth, white lettering on spine, facsimile of Picasso's signature embossed in white on cover. Illustrated with hundreds of color and B&W reproductions of Picasso's work. Includes a study of his work by Frank Elgar, a biographical study by Robert Maillard. Translated from the French by Francis Scarfe. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. FINE.. Color and B&W Plates. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 315 pp
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Three Hundred Years of American Painting

By: Eliot, Alexander

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1957

Seller ID: 21358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's brown cloth over tan cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine & cover. Profusely illustrated with over 250 full-color reproductions. Includes a list of One Hundred Collections of American Painting, a Chronology, a Bibliography, an Index and an Introduction by John Walker, director of the National Gallery of Art. The author, Alexander Eliot, art editor of TIME, stretches a wonderful panorama before our eyes. At the beginning are the earliest pictures which can be claimed to be American, and at the end are canvases almost too new to be varnished. The great leaders of Am...
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Gauguin

By: Estienne, Charles

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Geneva, Albert Skira: 1953

Seller ID: 27801

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Publisher's full beige cloth, red lettering on spine, Skira medallion, red, embossed on cover. Profusely illustrated with wonderful tipped-in full-color plates. Critical-biographical study of the impressionist Paul Gauguin, with fine color plates on almost every other page. Text in French.. Former owner's name and date (Christmas, 1953) on ffep, covers mildly soiled, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is chipped with several closed tears. VERY GOOD/GOOD.. Le Gout de Notre Temps Series. Color Plates. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 115,...
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The National Museum of Wales: A Companion Guide to the National Art Gallery

By: Evans, Mark; Oliver Fairclough

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cardiff, National Museum of Wales / Lund Humphries: 1993

Seller ID: 24313

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's glossy wraps. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. . The volume is in almost perfect condition with an old price sticker (National Museum of Wales) on the cover and a slight fold in one corner, otherwise, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE.. Trade PB. Color Illustrations. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 132 pp
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Category: Art History