SIRÉN, OSVALD: - Les peintures chinoises dans les collections américaines. Five volumes. Paris & Bruxelles 1927-28.

. Folio. Pp. (iv), 41; 42-56; (iv), 57-70; (ii), 71-86; (ii), 87-112, (4). Title leaves printed in red and black. With 200 plates, captions in French and English. Loose as issued in five original cardboard portfolios, expertly restored and mounted on grey cloth. Housed in a specially made red cloth box with title label on upper cover. (" Annales du Musée Guimet. Bibliotheque d'Art. Nouvelle série II"). First edition.A complete set of this extensive and beautifully produced collection of reproductions of Chinese paintings selected by Sirén from American collections. Includes Sirén's descriptions and comments of the various paintings. Osvald Sirén (1879-1966), a renowned Finnish-Swedish art historian, was one of the early Western scholars and collectors of Chinese Art. He made four major travels to East Asia between 1918 and 1935.

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