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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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Art Nouveau

By: Costantino, Maria

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, Smithmark: 1989

Seller ID: 28051

ISBN: 083170456X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, floral printed endpapers. Profusely illustrated with color and B&W photographs and reproductions. . Old dampstain affecting the margins of the last few pages, all illustrations and text on those few pages are clear and bright but slightly wrinkled at the bottom edge only, else as new; unmarked, tight, square, and otherwise clean. The same dampstain affects the interior of the spine and rear panel of the book and dust jacket. GOOD/GOOD. . Color and B&W Photographs. Folio 13" - 23" tall. 192 pp
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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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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. 3301453). 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 patrona...
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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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Henri Matisse: A Retrospective

By: Elderfield, John (ed)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY, The Museum of Modern Art: 1992

Seller ID: 28233

ISBN: 0870704338

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's stiff card wraps. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of reproductions of Matisse's works, most in color and many full-page. Includes Essays, Chronology, Bibliographical Note, and an Index of Plates. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Henri Matisse: A Retrospective" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 24, 1992-January 12, 1993. A copy of the multi-page, fold-out exhibition brochure laid-in. . Former owners' small name and address label on half-title, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. . Color and B&W reproductions. 4to 11" - 13" tal...
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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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Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: 1800-1950 (Three Volumes, Complete)

By: Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: NY, Random House: 1987

Seller ID: 26818

ISBN: 0394554639

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

First edition. Three volume set. Volume 1: Text, including catalogue entries for 875 works, including specifications, biographies and translations of the calligraphic texts; 397 pages with index, publisher's full turquoise cloth. Volume 2: Painting, 369 pages of color reproductions, publisher's full green cloth. Volume 3: The Calligraphies, 288 pages of color reproductions, publisher's full clay cloth. The volumes are each 14.25 by 10.25 inches, the clamshell box, which is in brown cloth with embossed gilt titles and color illustration, is 15.5 by 11.5 inches. This monumental work is the ...
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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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Art History Museum Vienna

By: Faggin, Giorgio; Gunther Heinz; Raffaele Monti; Anna and Rodolfo Pallucchini

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Newsweek Books: 1969

Seller ID: 20147

ISBN: 0882252453

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with color photographs. . Former owner's small name and address stamp on front endpaper, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Dust jacket has slight shelf-wear to the head of the spine and two faint scratches on the rear panel. NEAR FINE/ NEAR FINE. . Great Museums of the World Series. Color reproductions. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 171 pp
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The Charged Image French Lithographic Caricature, 1816-1848

By: Farwell, Beatrice

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art: 1989

Seller ID: 8919

ISBN: 0899510752

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Publisher's thick glossy wraps. Profusely illustrated with eight color plates and 210 B&W illustrations. This catalogue was published to accompany the 1989 showing at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art of French lithographic caricatures produced between 1816 and 1848 by 13 artists, including Boilly, Daumier, Pigal, Vernet, and others. . The volume is in virtually perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. FINE.. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 188 pp
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American Indian Art

By: Feder, Norman

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY, Harry N. Abrams / Abradale Press: 1995

Seller ID: 27150

ISBN: 0810981327

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Publisher's full white cloth, black lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with more than 300 illustrations, including 60 plates in full color. Includes List of Plates, Map, Notes, Bibliography, Photographic Sources. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW.. Color and B&W Plates. Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. 445, (2) pp
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SIGNS & SYMBOLS IN CHRISTIAN ART

By: Ferguson, George

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY, Oxford University Press: 1958

Seller ID: 27

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering and borders on brown label on spine, gilt (brown) lettering on cover. Profusely illustrated with 16 full color plates, 96 pages of B&W plates, and 230 line drawings by Mark Voris. FINE/VERY GOOD. . This is an unread copy with a former owner's name neatly stamped on the fep, else as new. The dust jacket, now in Mylar, shows modest shelf-wear. . Color Illustrations. 4to - over 9 - 12; tall. 123 pp
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MOSTRA DELLE OPERE DI FRANCESCO E GIANANTONIO GUARDI

By: Fiocco, Guiseppe; Rodolfo Pallucchini

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Trento, Arti Grafiche: 1949

Seller ID: 5767

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Publsiher's green card wraps. Illustrated with B&W reproductions of works by Francesco and Gianantonio Guardi. Catalog produced for an exhibition of the works of Francesco and Gianantonio Guardi from August 10 to September 30 1949. Quite Rare. In Italian.. An unmarked copy, boards lightly faded with brief notation, else fine. NEAR FINE.. Catalog. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 33 pp
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Category: Art History