Benson, Timothy O.

Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond slight waviness to text-block; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely bound in two-tone, gritty tan paper over boards, black cloth-backed, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. just a touch of discoloration to bottom edges. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 323 pp., [5], 6-231, with plentiful black-and-white illustrations, and including 57 in full, glorious color. Published to augment the 2003-2004 exhibition that "explores how the optimistic and forward-looking themes of utopia and fantasy sustained faith among artists and architects in the power of art to shape a better world during the tumultuous era surrounding World War I in Germany. When the construction of buildings there became nearly impossible, paper became the medium of the unbridled imagination. at the center of the activity were the 'utopian architects' of the Working Council for Art and the Crystal Chain, whose architectural inventions ranged from ideal agrarian communities to futuristic worlds dependent on miraculous advances in technology for their creation or discovery. . Presents the diverse manifestations of the utopia metaphor in its progression throughout Expressionism from arcadian to man-made utopias using selections from the realms of paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy, anti-utopia, and film and stage." Contributions by Timothy O. Benson, but also by Reinhold Heller, David Frisby, Ian Boyd Whyte, and Anton Kaes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 348602

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Expressionism|Expressionist painters|art history|architecture|utopian architecture

Pierre Beres

Choix de Livres Illustres Par Les Principaux Artistes Modernes: Exemplaires Avec Suites Enrichis de Dessins Originaux Et RevãªTus de Reliures Decorees, Catalogue 52

Paris, Pierre Beres, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Published in Paris by the art gallery owner, Pierre Berès, n.d., in a trade softcover format, printed wraps illustrated by Henri Laurens, unpaginated, comprising a sales catalog at marked prices with 166 notices. Well over 50 illustrations in black-and-white and full color. Includes an index of artist names, Andre to Zack, Grocz to Rodin, Picasso to Vallotton. Laid in is a note of invitation to the exhibition. Some light wear to covers, a bit of peeling to paper on spine. Bound in is a drawing of a bird by Pablo Picasso that says it's an original drawing made for the catalogue. Note of Errata laid in, and Colophon notes that the front cover is a lithograph pulled by Mourlot.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 347147

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Pierre Beres|modern art|art history|French language|modern painters

Berkoff, Marshall R.

Currier & Ives: The New Best 50

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, American Historical Print Collectors Society, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, light sunning along two edges. Bound in blue cloth, single vertical dent, faint, to front cover, else with sharp and distinct gilt lettering and ruling. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, some wear along spine head, faint creasing and soiling along bottom edge. 80 pp., featuring 19 folio-sized prints, reproduced here in quarto, and 31 quarto-sized prints. Stated First Edition, being Limited to only 2000 copies..Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Good,

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Book number: 353305

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Currier & Ives prints Americana

Berkson, Bill

Inez Storer

San Francisco, California, Olga Dollar Gallery, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy of a gallery exhibit catalog for Inez Storer, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated stiff card stock wraps. Unpaginated, but roughly 14 pp. of fine reproductions of Inez Storer's paintings, printed on high-gloss paper. Bill Berkson's essay opens the catalog.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 355153

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Inez Storer Bill Berkson

Berman, Leonid

The Three Worlds of Leonid

New York, Basic Books, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Preface by Virgil Thomson and translated from the original French by Olivier Bernier, being the bracing autobiography of a Jewish painter who fled from Bolshevik Russia to Spain, moved to France and who was imprisoned during WWWII by the Germans and who moved eventually to the U.S. xii + 275 pp. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Nice range of black-and-white photographs of the artist's work and life.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 348993

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Jewish artists|WWII|Neo-Romantic painters|art history|autobiography

Berman, Leonid

The Three Worlds of Leonid

New York, Basic Books, 1978. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Preface by Virgil Thomson and translated from the original French by Olivier Bernier, being the bracing autobiography of a Jewish painter who fled from Bolshevik Russia to Spain, moved to France and who was imprisoned during WWWII by the Germans and who moved eventually to the U.S. xii + 275 pp. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Nice range of black-and-white photographs of the artist's work and life.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 350513

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Jewish artists|WWII|Neo-Romantic painters|art history|autobiography

Galerie Claude Bernard and Sam Szafran

Sam Szafran: Aquarelles

Paris, France, Galerie Claude Bernard, 2014. First Edition. . Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a fine and comprehensive artist exhibit catalog and that features both photographs and watercolors, mostly of people and botanical subjects. Unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers. First Edition, published in Paris in 1988 on occasion of the gallery exhibit of Szafran's finest watercolors. Tall, quarto-sized format, with 72 pp. and with 46 full-color reproductions including 20 in full color; six boards are presented on two triptychs (boards IX, X, XI and boards XXXV, XX, XXXIII). This catalog augments the 46 works presented at the Exhibition that was held from December 1987 - January 1988.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 352858

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Sam Szafran watercolors aquarelles

Dorival, Bernard and the Tate Gallery

Sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz

London, England, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine condition copy in tall softcover format, printed, illustrated card stock wraps, a gallery exhibit catalog from 1959 of the Jewish artist born in Lithuania, with an Introduction by G.W. and a note from the artist himself, en Francaise, a letter he wrote to Jhr. W. Sandberg, Director of the Municipal Museums, Amsterdam. 105 captioned items described, and plentiful black-and-white reproductions galore.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349280

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Jacques Lipchitz|sculptors

Sotheby Parke Bernet

Important European Porcelain, Pottery and Objects of Vertu

New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. A Collection Formed by Nelson A. Rockefeller and Offered for the Benefit of His Estate-with prices realized Auction Catalog. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Replete with black-and-white reproductions of fine objects. Unpaginated, but roughly 80 pages of fine black-and-white photographs. Illustrated endpapers.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 348676

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Nelson Rockefeller estate|objects of vertu|European porcelain|European pottery

Sotheby Parke Bernet

Important Gold Boxes and Objects of Vertu, an Auction Held on Nov. 29, 1975

Monte Carlo, Monaco, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., Monaco, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy an auction catalog held in Monte Carlo at the Sporting d'Hiver, sponsored by the Sotheby Parke Bernet Monaca, S.A. Unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond slight wear to rear bottom tip. Two ink-stamps from previous owner (the Crocker Art Gallery). Sumptuous full-color photographs galore of sealing wax cases, jewelry boxes, snuff-boxes, ashtrays, tie-clips, and the like. 103 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 352158

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: objets d'art objects of vertu snuff-boxes tie clips sealing wax cases

Sotheby Parke Bernet

The Robert Von Hirsch Collection, Volume One: Old Master Drawings, Paintings and Medieval Miniatures

New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear but a touch of sunning to top edge, else with a bright interior, unmarked and clean, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, illustration to cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Laid in are the original brochures and order forms for Sotheby Parke Bernet auctions, including this one of the Robert von Hirsch Collection. The first of four volumes. 215 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 352267

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Robert von Hirsch Collection Old Master Drawings paintings medieval miniatures

Sotheby Parke Bernet

Russian Works of Art, Gold Boxes, Fine Watches and Objets de Vitrine

Los Angeles, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Fine looking auction catalog, held on Monday, May 5, 1975, a First Edition copy from Sotheby Parke Bernet, a sterling condition softcover copy, bound in oblong format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the printed, illustrated wraps. Double-column text, and profuse with black-and-white illustrations. 63 pp. + publisher's ads.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 348652

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Sotheby Parke Bernet|Russian art|objets de Vitrine|fine watches|horology|gold boxes

Blount, Berniece and Henry Blount

French Cameo Glass

Des Moines, Iowa, Gazelle Book Services Ltd., for the authors, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED at the first free endpaper, by both Berniece and Henry Blount. Bound simply in brown cloth over boards, just a little bit of wear thereto, light scuffing to tips, else clean of interior and tightly bound. [1], 2-157 pp. and including a full index and many score fine black-and-white reproductions of fine French cameo glass, printed on high-gloss paper, including Rousseau and Leveille, Galle, Daum Muller, de Vez, Mont Joye, and Pantin, Delatte, Le Verre Francais, D'Argental, Richar, and Arsall, Baccarat, Val Saint Lambert, and Saint Louis, Schniehder, Kosta, Reijmyre, and Hadelands manufacturers.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Collectible: Very Good

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Book number: 352162

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Berniece Blount Henry Blount French cameo glass collectibles glassware

Bernstein, Roberta

Ellsworth Kelly: At Right Angles, 1964 - 1966

Los Angeles / San Francisco / New York, Margo Leavin Gallery / John Berggruen Gallery / Paula Cooper Gallery, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers, just minor rubbing thereto, housed now in a plastic sleeve. Unpaginated, but roughly 20 pp. of fine full-color prints, printed on high-gloss paper, followed by a Select Bibliography. Virtually pristine of interior, and still tightly perfectbound.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 352882

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Ellsworth Kelly Roberta Bernstein artist exhibit catalog

Besancon, Julien

S. Hadengue: Peintures 1964-1974

Paris, France, Galerie Louise Leiris, 1974. First Edition. . Size: Square 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound but for scuffing to paper at spine bottom, a colorfully illustrated artist gallery catalog of paintings, drawings and objets d'art by S. Hadengue. Bound in stiff, thread-stitched wrappers with tri-color. Louise Leiris Gallery displayed and sold fine art works from leading artists of the 1940s and 1950s all the way into the 1980s. Nearly square softcover format, measuring 6 1/2" tall by 6 3/4" wide, respectively. "Ce catalogue (no 5 - Serie B) a ete acheve d'imprimer sur les presses des Maitres-Imprimeurs Draeger Freres, le 4 Novembre, 1974." List of distributors inside front flap, introductory essay by Julien Besancon, then 45 illustrations in black-and-white, printed on high-gloss paper. Exhibit check-list at rear. Text in French. 48 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355453

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: S. Hadengue Galerie Louise Leiris French art history French artists Mourlot Freres