Distel, Anne, Douglas W. Druick, Gloria Groom, Rodolphe Rapetti, with Julia Sagraves, Kirk Varnedoe

Gustave Caillebotte Urban Impressionist

New York, Abbeville Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A gift-quality condition copy penned by Anne Distel, Douglas W. Druick, Gloria Groom, Rodolphe Rapetti, with additional contributions by Julia Sagraves, and a lengthy essay by Kirk Varnedoe. Glossy pictorial wraps pay due homage to this exhibition catalog that augmented the show curated by Distel, Druick, Groom and Rapetti above regarding the work and life of the French Impressionist. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Many score brilliant reproductions, printed on high-gloss paper. [10], 11-351 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 349045

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Anne Distel|Douglas W. Druick|Gloria Groom|Rodolphe Rapetti|Julia Sagraves|Kirk Varnedoe|Gustave Caillebot|French Impressionists

Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, Timothy H. Wilson

Western Decorative Arts, Part I, Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles Including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Authored by Rudolf Distelberger, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timothy H. Wilson, and with contributions by Daphne S. Barbour, Shelley G. Sturman, and Pamela B. Vandiver. 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. Bound handsomely in bright green heavy cloth, with sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxiv [4], 4-333 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 349939

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Rudolf Distelberger|Alison Luchs|Philippe Verdier|Timothy H. Wilson|Daphne S. Barbour|Shelley G. Sturman|Pamela B. Vandiver|metalwork|enamels|ceramics

Djerassi, Carl

Paul Klee: Selections from the Djerassi Collection

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of an artist exhibit catalog from a show devoted to Paul Klee's finest paintings. Minor wear of glossy covers, less to text-block, but previous owner's ink-stamps to covers. Replete with reproductions of the best art works from the beloved painter. A perfectly readable, usable copy. Previous owner's accession label to front cover, else clean and bright of interior. Foreword by Henry T. Hopkins. Unpaginated, but roughly 14 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 355616

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Pol Bury The Lefebre Gallery artist exhibit catalog fine painter art history

Dockstader, Frederick J.

Indian Art in South America

Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society Publishers Ltd., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, rubbing to, scuffing of extremities, and a bit sunned and discolored of exteriors, but bright and clean of interior. 222 pp., and with 250 illustrations including the fine photography by Carmelo Guadagno. Special focus on Pre-Columbian art and artists, a chronology of Andean culture, Colombia and Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, the Guianas, Peru and Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Complete with maps and charts, archaeological sites, and a full set of notes and bibliographies.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 351887

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: South American art|Carmelo Guadagno Frederick J. Dockstader pre-Columbian arts and crafts

von Heydebreck, Tessen, Barbara Engelbach, Brigid Doherty and Gregory Williams

Post-Menopause

Koln, Germany, Buchhandlung Walther Konig, for the Museum Ludwig, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with tight binding and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated wraps, in gate-gold. Very slight, tiny furling to a range of the upper tips. This artist monograph of Rosemarie Trockel begins with a set of Acknowledgments and a Foreword, then an Introduction by Tessen von Heydebreck, then individual chapters by Barbara Engelbach, Brigid Doherty and Gregory Williams, and then Lilian Haberar and Charlotte-Kraft provide the catalogue raisonne, proper. A fine catalogue issued to augment the exhibition, "Rosemarie Trockel. Menopause", Museum Ludwig Koln, 29. Oktober 2005 - 12. Februar 2006, MAXXI-Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Roma, 19. Mai 2006 - 6. August 2006. Trockel has been credited since the 1980s for developing a unique concept of art. The catalogue is stuffed with fine reproductions of her drawings, wool, everyday objects, sculpture and assemblages. 182 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 353935

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Rosemarie Trockel Barbara Engelbach Brigid Doherty Gregory Williams Lilian Haberar Charlotte-Kraft

Porzio, Domenico and Marco Valsecchi

Understanding Picasso

New York, Published by Newsweek Books, New York (1974) , 1974. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published in First American Edition by Newsweek Books, New York, 1974, a Fine condition copy bound handsomely in brown cloth and with a gilt-stamped illustration to front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped, having protected a remarkably well-preserved, attractive copy overall. [8], 9-272 pp. Introduction by Thomas A. Messer. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 346921

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: pablo picasso|Spanish painters|Spanish artists|Thomas M. Messer|Domenico Porzio |Marco Valsecchi

Bartmann, Dominik and Ammon Barzel

Jakob Steinhardt: Der Prophet

Berlin, Judisches Museum, 1995. 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 brilliantly glossy illustrated wraps in gate-fold. 179 pp., and with several score brilliant reproductions printed on glossy paper. Vorwort by Dominik Bartmann and Ammon Barzel, and then with a biographie, and then contributions by Heinz Peters, Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Kathrin Kellner, Inka Bertz, Dominik Bartmann, and Ziva Amishai-Maisels again, and then with a Katalog der Gemalde, Zeichnungen, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, Lithographien, Illustrierten Bucher und Autographen Jakob Steinhardts im Berlin Museum / Judischen Museum im Berlin Museum bearbeitet von Kathrin Kellner.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 346324

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Jewish history|Jewish culture|Jewish artists|Jakob Steinhardt

Saff, Donald and Craig Adcock

Rozenkvist, Mockba: 1961-1991 / Rosenquist, Moscow: 1961-1991

Moskva, Soviet Union / Tampa, Florida, Tsentralnii Dom Khudozhnikov [Tretyakov Gallery], 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. Bilingual texts in Russian and English, in parallel, Russian first, followed by an extensive range of pages of James Rosenquist's finest paintings, reproduced in full color, printed on high-gloss paper, quite fine, then English text. Replete with monochrome and also full-color illustrations including two in gatefold. 142 pp. Title on rear cover--"Rozenkvist/Rosenquist, Mockva/Moscow, 1961-1991"--is slightly different. Brilliant, extensive survey that accompanied the retrospective exhibition of the American painter's works, held in Moscow at the Tretyakov GalleryMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 352855

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: James Rosenquist artist exhibit catalog Russian language

Donneson, Seena, Emily Fisher, Suzanne Randolph, Exhibition Coordinators

Sculpture 3: New York Artists on Tour

New York, New York Cultural Council, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine looking museum exhibit catalog, bound in bright red illustrated wraps, some wear to red, some light soiling to rear panel, but sturdily bound, stapled, and with a virtually pristine interior, featuring the work of American artists such as Alice Adams, Bill Barrett, Stanley Boxer, John Chamberlain, John Cross, Mel Edwards, Kosso Eloul, Harriet Feigenbaum, Lila Katzen, Betty Klavun, Phyllis Mark, Salvatore Romano, Alan Sonfist, Jason Strawn, Julius Tobias, Norman Tuck, Alexandre Wakhevitch, and James Wines. Unpaginated, but roughly 30 pages and with fine black-and-white reproductions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 348674

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: museum exhibit catalog|American artists|Alice Adams|Bill Barrett|Stanley Boxer|John Chamberlain|John Cross|Mel Edwards|Kosso Eloul|Harriet Feigenbaum|Lila Katzen|Betty Klavun|Phyllis Mark|Salvatore Romano|Alan Sonfist|Jason Strawn|Julius Tobias|Norman Tuc

Dorival, Bernard

Le Dessin Dans L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Pevsner

Paris , Collection Prisme, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. 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. Glossy, pictorial covers, white cloth-backed spine, stamped black lettering thereto. Published in First Edition state by Collection Prisme, Paris, 1965, and with a Preface by Virginie Pevsner. 102 pp., and with several score black-and-white and sepia plates, some in fold-out.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 346590

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Antoine Pevsner|sculpture|sculptors|art history

Dorment, Richard

British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Century

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. 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 illustrated wraps. Hundreds of lovely reproductions in black-and-white and full color. Preface by Anne D'Harnoncourt and Joseph J. Rishel, then a Foreword by the author, and from that, "In the entry on the Philadelphia Museum of Art in his book Guide to Dutch Art in America, published in 1986 by the Netherlands-America Amity Trust, Peter C. Sutton refers to the vast holdings of Dutch paintings housed in this Museum as "a connoisseur's dream and a cataloguer's nightmare." Fortunately, as both connoisseur and cataloguer of uncommon discernment and diligence, Dorment has himself now provided readers of this volume with ample evidence for their enjoyment of a remarkable range of pictures, from Steen to Mauve, and from Van den Eeckhout to Van Gogh. Catalogue and critical study of works by Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, Blake, Constable, Turner and others in the Philadelphia collection. xvi [4] 468 pp., with 42 full color plates and numerous other illustrations, bibliography, and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 352311

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Richard Dorment British painting British painters British art history

Dotrement, Christian

Cobra: 1948-1951

Paris, Editions Jean-Michel Place, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. 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. Glossy pictorial covers, orange cloth-covered boards, rubbing to the black-lettered spine, very light wear and tear to boards, Illustrated endpapers, being a black-and-white photograph of assembled artists. Published by Éditions Jean-Michel Place, 1980, Lavishly illustrated in black-and-white. Foreword by Christian Dotremont, really, the founder of the C.O.B.R.A. movement named after the home cities of its founding members (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam). Then follows a presentation of each and every issue of the influential French art movement journal, which ran from 1948-1951, sponsored at least initially by Galerie Birch and that featured paintings and sculptures, collages and etchings. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Dotremont has also included here "Le Realisme-Socialiste Contra La Revolution" at end, and then with publisher's ads galore. Unpaginated, but roughly 250 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 345258

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: COBRA|Jean-Michel Place|art history|French art history|art movements

Dotremont, Christian

Reinhoud: Recent Sculptures

New York, Lefebre Gallery, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. Uncommonly found in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of an artist exhibit catalog, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Square format, measuring 6 1/4" on a size, glossy black-and-white cover and illustrations interior, with a short essay by Christian Dotremont. Staple-bound, unpaginated, but 12 pp. Five copies available.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 355544

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Christian Dotremont artist exhibit catalog Reinhoud Lefebre Gallery

Rousseau de Douanier, Henri

Une Visite a L'Exposition de 1889

Geneve, Switzerland, A Vesenaz, 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. An important and indispensable guide to French art history, being an intellectual genealogy to the infamous 1889 exhibition of largely French art and artists. Two illustrations including a fine black-and-white photograph of Rousseau at frontis, and sub-titled "Vaudeville en 3 actes et 10 tableaux," and with a Preface by Tristan Tzara. French language text. Original publisher's glassine wraps, chipped a bit, over original publisher's tan wraps in gate-fold. Limited, numbered edition of 2,000 copies, this being Copy #123. Unopened top edges. The Preface by Tristan Tzara appears in its First Edition. The publication aims to shed light on Henri Douanier Rousseau and about equally on his works and personality. Facsimile plate of the original invitation to this "exposition.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 347418

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Tristan Tzara|Henri Rousseau le Douanier|French language

Druick, Douglas and Michael Hoog

Fantin-Latour

Ottawa, Canada, National Gallery of Canada / National Museums of Canada, 1983. First English Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of the First English Edition, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Excellent museum exhibit catalog of the life and work and colleagues of Henri Fantin-Latour, being profusely illustrated, some illustrations being in color. 372 pp. Bound in a small square quarto format and featuring glossy pictorial wrappers. Catalog produced to augment the exhibition of Fantin-Latour in Paris, France; Ottawa, Canada; and San Francisco, California.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 348141

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Fantin-Latour|Douglas Druick|Michael Hoog|French artists