American Art Association, Inc

Illustrated Catalogue of the Rare and Valuable Italian Renaissance Furniture, Bronzes, Ceramics, Marbles, Paintings and Textiles, Greek and Roman Antiquities and Other Rare Objects Comprising the Tolentino Galleries Collection

New York, American Art Association, 1919. red, buckram boards with spine plate. unpaginated pgs. 320 items of auction w/ b&w illustrations. Tipped-in 'purchaser slip' intact. contents as follows: To be sold under the management of The American Art Association at The American Art Galleries./ No price list./ Copy 2 includes price annotations./ Date of sale: May 01, 1919 - May 03, 1919. Place of sale: New York. Good--ex.library. black marker discard library reference sticker/barcode on spine & back cover. white adhesive reside on front cover w/ pen marking. front cover bowed w/ various scratches & edgewear. bk cover is dampstained with various scratches & edgwear. library plate on cover pastedown. bk cover pastedown & flyleaf have numbered stamps w/ library reference tag. bottom edge of pgs exhibits light dampstaining. pgs have occasional smudges w/ pencil notations of auction prices.

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Book number: 175274

Catalogue: Auction Catalogues - European Decorative Arts

Keywords: ; Tolentino Collection 1919 ; ;

American Art Association

Illustrated Catalogue of the Exceedingly Rare and Valuable Art Treasures and Antiquities Formerly Contained in the Famous Davanzati Palace

New York, American Art Association, 1916. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. 609 unnumbered pages illustrations, plates. Leaf in front gives particulars of public exhibition and sale. "The Davanzati Palace, from 'Les arts'", Paris, August, 1911: p. [61-75]. Catalogue written by Mr. Horace Townsend of New York and Mr. Cesare A. Guglielmetti of Rome in collaboration with Professor Elia Volpi. G+/G-, has normal wear for age, spine is torn top right. Front hinge detached, back hinge still attached, text block is separating at center. Ex-library, markings on spine, inside front cover. Good candidate for re-bind.

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Book number: 181425

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: European Art, Davanzati Palace, Auction, Professor Elia Volpi ; Davanzati Palace ; ; Auction Catalogues - European

American Art Association

Important Maritime Collection

New York, American Art Association, Inc, 1926. Softcover. Tan wraps with black ornamental border, black and red lettering; unpaginated, profuse bw illustrations throughout. Contians ship models, paintings, prints, whaling logs & other manuscripts, naval books, maps; ship porcelains of the eighteenth century of Lowestoft, Wedgwood, Liverpool & Sunderland lustre ware. Including the collection of James E. Bayles and Fred J. Peters and a selection of the ship porcelains from the Trumbull-Prince Collection of Princeton University. Contains 883 items. VG (soiled covers, foxing to end papers, inside is clean other some pencil markings) .

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Book number: 182365

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: European Art ; Trumbull-Prince Collection ; ; Collections - European Art

American Art Association

Italian and American Furniture, Italian Paintings and Greek and Roman Antiquities: Professor A.L. Frothingham - Oct. 29-30, 1924

New York, American Art Association, 1924. Softcover. Illustrated card wraps. 277 lots, 1 volume illustrations. Lancour: 4704. Interesting collection of the late Professor A.L. Frothingham. Etruscan antiquities, terra-cottas and pottery; bas-reliefs of the XV and XVI centuries; Eastern rugs and carpets. VG, covers show normak wear, spine is chipped torn. Pages clean and tight. Museum blind stamp, pencil markings from previous owner.

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Book number: 181581

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts; Auction Catalog; A.L. Frothingham ; A.L. Frothingham ; ; Auction Catalogues - American

American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

The Library of the Late George Allison Armour - April 22-23, 1937

New York, American art Association, Anderson galleries, Inc, 1937. Hardcover. Card boards. 4 preliminary leaves, 165, [2] pages frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits, facsimiles). Sale number 4323. Estate of: George Allison Armour, Princeton, N.J. 489 lots. VG, normal wear on covers.

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Book number: 181656

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing; Auction Catalogs; 4323; George Allison Armour ; George Allison Armour ; ; Auction Catalogues - American

American Fine Arts Society

Loan Exhibition Catalogue: Bronzes, Antoine Louis Barye

New York, Fine Arts Society Building, 1893. Paperback. Tan wraps with black lettering; 16 pp. Created on the occasion of an exhibition held February, 1893. Fair (Wraps are toned/edgeworn/smudged/foxed; covers are loosely attached; rear cover is not present; interior is clean but toned with some foxing/smudging on the periphery; last page is unopened; minimal pencil markings.) .

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Book number: 200150

Catalogue: European Decorative Arts

Keywords: European Decorative Arts, Bronzes ; Bronzes ; ; Collections - European Decorative Arts

American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

The Splendid Art Library of the Late Thomas Fortune Ryan, New York - November 21-22, 1933

New York, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 1933. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 62 pages, 346 lots. Sale number: 4064. The splendid art library of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, New York : comprising histories of engraving, painting, ceramics, furniture, and other works of reference : with other properties : unrestricted public sale, November 21 and 22. VG, edge wear on covers and slight soiling.

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Book number: 181652

Catalogue: Books and Manuscripts and Printing

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing; Auction Catalogs; Thomas Fortune Ryan; 4064 ; Thomas Fortune Ryan ; ; Auction Catalogues - American

American Art Association

The Splendid Library and Collection of Historical and Literary Autographs of the Late Mr. And Mrs. William Read

New York, American Art Association, 1936. Hardcover. Tan paper covered boards with black lettering; 287 pp, bw frontispiece; bw illustrations. Includes 485 lots, Sale code: 4217. Includes a set of the first four folio editions of Shakespeare: first editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Goldsmith, Burns, and other famous authors; a superb collection of historical autographs and manuscripts, including 126 letters by General Nathanael Greene; highly important letters by George Washington and Benedict Arnold, and a remarkable collection of witchcraft manuscripts; to be dispersed .. by order of the heirs./ Place of sale: New York. Date of sale: January 8-9, 1936. VG- (shelfwear and chipping to boards, light age toning to pages but text and illustrations are otherwise very clean.) .

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Book number: 182275

Catalogue: Auction Catalogues - American

Keywords: American Auction Catalogue ; William Read Library ; ; American Auction Catalogue

American Art Association, NY: Apr. 16, 17, 1929

Works by Picasso, Derain, Cézanne, Degas, Rivera, Max Weber, Matisse, "Pop" Hart, Dickinson, Laurencin... (Cover Title Is: The Arthur B. Davies Art Collection: Modern Drawings, Prints, Paintings and Sculptures; Ancient Bronzes, Pottery and Fabrics, French Furhiture and Tapestries)

New York, American Art Association, 1929. Softcover. Wraps. appx. 120 pp. 16 bw plates. Includes works by Picasso, Pascin, Maillol, Sheeler, Luks, Bellows, W.P. Henderson, Kuhn, Weber, Maurer, Tonita Pena, George O. Hart, P. Dickinson, Glackens, R. Hallowell, J. Macdonald-Wright, Schamberg, Patrick Henry Bruce, Diego Rivera, Dwight Williams, James Butler, Evan J. Walters, Alice Morgan Wright, Winslow Homer, Seurat, Wood Gaylor, Maurice Prendergast, Marin, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Albert P. Ryder, Joseph Stella, Marsden Hartley, many others of foreign heritage. One page foreword by Shirley Falcke. Rare, and an important look inside the personal tastes of this artist. VG+, cover soiled a bit .

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Book number: 181792

Catalogue: American Artists

Keywords: 20th Century; Art; American Art; Auction Catalogue; Arthur B. Davies; Collection ; Davies, Arthur B. ; Art ; American Art

Americana de Arte

II Bienal Americana de Arte

Cordoba, Argentina, Publicaciones IKA, 1964. Softcover. long, glossy bw illustrated wraps. 336 pgs w/ bw illustrations. The Second Annual (2A) Latin American Art Biennial organized by Argentinian automaker Industrias Kaiser and it's art branch Salon IKA. The catalogue is primarily split into 10 Country categories: Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Each category section opens with a page of artist portraits followed by a page of their work and accompanying biographical essay. Also, included are sections on the organizers, festivals, artist index, etc. Pages appear clean. Uncommon. Good (spine ends torn & chipped w/ exposed binding. crimp to upper spine edge w/ some pgs rippled & creased at that area. scratches, scuffs & creasing to wrappers; edge-wear; rubbed wear to back cover. tight binding) .

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Book number: 183222

Catalogue: Annual Exhibitions - Other

Keywords: ; Bienal Americana de Arte ; ;

Ames-Lewis, Francis and Mary Rogers

Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art

Aldershot, Hants, England/ Brookfield, VT, USA, Ashgate, 1998. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver spine lettering; xvi, 241 pp; bw illustrations. Contents: Introduction / Elizabeth Cropper -- The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics / John Onians -- The perception of beauty in landscape in the quattrocento / Alison Cole -- 'Condecenti et netti .. ': beauty, dress and gender in Italian Renaissance art / Jane Bridgeman -- Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti and a practical definition of magnificence in the context of Renaissance architecture / Rupert Shepherd -- Beauty as an aesthetic and artistic ideal in late fifteenth-century Florence / David Hemsoll -- Defining the beautiful in early Renaissance Germany / Andrew Morrall -- The artist as beauty / Mary Rogers -- 'La più bella e meglio lavorata opera': beauty and good design in Italian Renaissance architecture / Georgia Clarke -- Poetry in motion: beauty in movement and the Renaissance conception of leggiadrìa / Sharon Fermor -- Resplendent vessels: Parmigianino at work in the Steccata / Mary Vaccaro -- Michelangelo's Christian neoplatonic aesthetic of beauty in his early oeuvre: the nuditas virtualis image / Joanne Snow-Smith -- Venetian glass and Renaissance self-fashioning / Paul Hills -- Vasari's interpretation of female beauty / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, I / Thomas Frangenberg -- The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, II / Robert Williams. VG- (ex-library with stamps and labels on dj spine, block, inside front and rear covers, title page. Book is otherwise clean and tight.) .

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Book number: 184170

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: European Art ; Renaissance Art ; ;

Ames-Lewis, Francis

The Draftsman Raphael

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering; bw illustrated dj, mylar cover; viii, 164 pp; bw illustrations. "Francis Ames-Lewis here explores the role of drawing in the artistic and creative practice of one of the greatest of the Renaissance painters- Raphael. The arrangement of the book, the fresh insights, and the carefully chosen illustrations provide a sense of the significance of drawing for Raphael and of the beauty of many of his finest drawings. The book provides a new perspective on the work of a major artist."- DJ. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards and block.) .

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Book number: 186184

Catalogue: European Artists

Keywords: European Artists ; Raphael ; ;

Amic, Sylvain and Pablo Jimenez Burillo

Luces de Bohemia: Artistas, Gitanos Y la Definición Del Mundo Moderno

Madrid, Spain, Fundacion Mapfre, 2013. Hardcover. fully illustrated boards w/ black printing. 237 pages : illustrations. In Spanish. contents follows: Catalog of the exhibition, Grand Palais, Paris, September 26, 2012 - January 14, 2013; Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, February 2-May 3, 2013./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237). New .

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Book number: 174806

Catalogue: European Artists

Keywords: ; Spanish Artists ; ;

Amic, Sylvain and Diederik Bakhuys

Scenes de la Vie Impressionniste: Manet, Renoir, Monet, Morisot

Paris, Reunion des Musee Nationaux, 2016. Hardcover. Color-illustrated boards with lavender lettering. 238 pp. Mainly color illustrations, portraits. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, April 16-September 26, 2016. Text in French. New in shrinkwrap.

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Book number: 172275

Catalogue: European Art

Keywords: European Art, Impressionism, Exhibitions ; Impressionism ; ; Museum Exhibitions - European Art

Ammann, Doris and Georg Frei

Andy Warhol: Black & White + Silver

Zurich, Switzerland, Thomas Ammann Fine Art Zurich, 2019. Softcover. oversized, square black wraps w/ reflective silver printing. approx 50 unpaginated pgs w/ color & bw plates; fold-out plate. Short, opening essay by Doris Ammann and Georg Frei; closing essay by Frei. Wonderfully illustrated. Includes a silver, reflective gallery card. VG+ (scuffs & scratches to wraps. clean & bright) .

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Book number: 190947

Catalogue: American Artists

Keywords: American Artists, Andy Warhol ; Warhol, Andy ; ;