Author: SIDHARTA, A.,
Title: Vibrant Arie Smit. [First edition].
Description: Jakarta, 2002. Large oblong stout 4°. Original publ. cloth, dustjacket. WITH original heavy boards slipcase, coloured reproduction of a painting by Arie Smit on front side, lower outer cover with publ. logo and provenance. 628pp. 64 captioned monochrome photo. plates, 569 captioned full colour plates, further expert commentaries to illustrations, pictorial endpapers. bibliogr. Excellent quality photographs. English language edition. Copy of the limited and numbered edition of 1000 copies, this copy bears nr. 0580, signed in ink by Arie Smit himself. WITH original double-sided publ. complimentary presentation card, coloured reproduction illustrating a fragment of a painting by Arie Smit, explanatory text on lower outer cover, inside with a 4-line ms. dedication in black ink, signed by publisher at tail, dated Jakarta, 14 II 2002 loosely inserted. Biogr. data about Arie Smit see: HAKS/MARIS, p. 247. Ample illustrated english language hommage to Arie Smit (1916-..), the eldest and last generation of foreign (dutch) painters working in pre- and past wrold war Bali, who, amongst others, founded the Group of young Artists (on Bali); following the inspiration established by Walter Spies, WillemG. Hofker, Rudolf Bonnet, Sonnega, Meier, Blanco (et.al.). A massive, well groomed publication. Photographs of excellent quality. Very fine copy. A must for every collector and devotee to foreign painting in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia. MINT copy of the limited, numbered and artist-signed edition, WITH DUSTJACKET AND ORIGINAL SLIPCASE. MIND SHIPPING FEES ABROAD: BRUT.WEIGHT OVER 5 KGS.!

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