Author: HYMANS Henri - Fanny Hymans-Cluysenaar (preface) :
Title: Oeuvres de Henri Hymans. Complete in 4 Volumes.
Description: .: 6. Brussels, M.Hayez, 1920-1921, lg.in-8°, 4 vols, 670 pp; 788 pp; 1048 pp; 450 pp, sewn, orig. wrappers, printed in 400 numbered copies. Indexed, some plate illustrations. Henri Hymans (Antwerp 1836 - Brussels 1912) was the foremost art historian and art critic of his time and ended his career as curator of the Royal Library in Brussels. His complete works consist of a large collection of articles on mostly Flemish graphic artists or painters and sculptors. A dictionary of over 700 biographical entries on Flemish art (most of them edited in Thieme Becker to which he contributed). A huge collection (over 1000 pages) of his articles in the Parisian 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', to which he contributed for over 25 years. Many of these articles deal with the actual art life in Belgium (during the period 1886-1912). A collection of articles on Early Netherlandish painting, XVIIth & XIXth century art. L'ART DANS LES PAYS-BAS, son évolution, son influence. Posthumous work of Hymans, 1926, 495 pp with 60 b/w ills. edited in the same format as his complete works, 400 copies printed. .

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