Matisse Picasso Two Great Masters Of Contemporary Painting by Jean Cassou Jaime Sabartes - 1940

London: James S. Virtue. Very Good+. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean marbled boards. Leather spine with gilt decorated raised bands. Leather protected front corners. Marbled page edges. Illustrated with 36 engravings. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Free of foxing. Prior owners book-plate. Lightly rubbed bottom edge of covers. Art; Engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 376 pages .

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1923; First Edition; large octavo; red cloth boards; gilt titles; top edges gilt; illustrated. History of the world’s literature and art, from earliest beginnings to date. Authored by renowned poet-dramatist John Drinkwater and artist Sir William Orpen, R.A. Five volumes, containing a total of 1,000 b&w illustrations and 50 color plates. Extensive indices at the back of each volume. Fine in all respects,clean, bright, bindings tight, sound and square, corners sharp, text and illustrations pristine, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. A handsome matched set of a monumental work. Domestic shipping only on this item.

Editions Albert Skira, Paris, 1939; First Edition; tall quarto (11 1/4" x 15 1/4"). Large portfolio of selections from the works of Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Camille Pissarro. An entry in the "XIX Century Masterpieces Of French Painting," series printed in Paris in conjunction with French and European Publications, Inc., New York. Authoritative eleven-page English language introduction by Pierre Francastel, containing one in-text tipped-in plate, is followed by 13 beautiful full-page laid-in color plates tipped onto heavy card stock, suitable for framing. Printed in Switzerland. Very Good Plus, tiny chip of the paper covering in the blank area at the uppermost extremity of the spine panel, not affecting titles or graphics. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp. All plates brilliant and Fine.

Graphis Arte Editions, Livorno, 1993; First Edition in English; Limited to 1000 copies; quarto, 275 pages; blue cloth; gilt titles; illustrated. Definitive catalogue raisonné of the graphic work of Marino Marini (1901-1980), the culmination of twenty years of research by Giorgio and Guido Guastalla resulting in considerable changes to the previous cataloguing, ordering, and dating of the artist’s works. Illustrated with over 435 reproductions in color and b&w, quite a number full-page. Exhaustive catalogue at the back with photo, date, and technical data for every graphic work in Marini’s oeuvre. Includes eight previously unpublished works. Foreword by the authors, preface by Marina Marini, the artist’s wife, and eight-page introductory critical essay by renowned Italian art critic Mario de Micheli. Translation to English from the original Italian supervised by Leslie J. Sachs. Finely published and printed on Brilliant Garda Matt paper from the Garda Mill, by Grafiche Favillini in Livorno,… Read More

Les Editions Du Chene, Paris, 1946; First Edition; tall quarto (11" x 15"). Large portfolio album with four pages of commentary on the works of Paul Cezanne by Pierre-Marie Auzas accompanied by 16 beautiful individual full-page laid-in color plates tipped onto heavy card stock, removable for framing. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp and bright. All plates brilliant and Fine. Text in French.

New York Botanical Garden. PAPERBACK. 1/1/2003. 002222 :Very Good uncreased paperback with slight edge wear . Used - Very Good.

Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 1923; 4to, 68 pages. Auction catalogue for the 1923 Frederik Muller public sale of the E. Van Essen private collection of antique Flemish paintings consisting of 137 lots of the works of Bosboom, Breitner, Corot, J. Van Essen, Neuhuys, Poggenbeek, Monticellli, Steelink, Suy, Jacob Maris, Willem Maris, et. al. Twenty-eight pages of descriptive text, in French, together with illustrations of 53 of the items offered for sale, a good number full-page, all beautifully reproduced in finest quality photogravure on heavy card stock by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem, Netherlands. Very Good Plus, in printed heavy wraps that have minor tanning of the outer margins. Text and illustrations Fine in all respects. Crisp, clean, bright, corners sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. A scarce and valuable reference.

Editions D’Art Albert Skira, Geneva, 1948; First Edition; tall quarto (11 1/4" x 15 1/4"). Finely published portfolio of Derain paintings. An entry in the Albert Skira "Le Tresors De La Peinture Francaise" Swiss series on 19th century French painting. Eight-page illustrated introduction by Jean Leymarie, followed by ten beautiful full-page laid-in plates tipped onto heavy card stock, suitable for framing. All plates in brilliant color. Printed in Switzerland. Very Good Plus, with a small (1/4") chip in a blank area of the paper covering of the uppermost spine panel, unaffecting titles or graphics. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp. All plates Fine. Text in French.

Rizzoli, New York, 1984; First Edition, First Printing; Quarto, 752 pages; deep blue cloth; gilt titles; illustrated. Art historian Pierre Schneider’s monumental work on Henri Matisse, fourteen years in the making. Profusely illustrated with 930 illustrations, 220 in full color, a number reproduced for the first time here. Premier authority on the subject. First American Edition, with text in English translated from the French by Michael Taylor and Bridget Strevens Romer. Not a later reprint. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a couple of minor surface wrinkles at the upper portion of the spine panel. Crisp, bright, glossy, corners sharp, no chips or tears, no price-clipping, no ownership signatures.

Fuller Museum of Art, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked. Catalog for exhibition at the Fuller Museum of Art, Brown University, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Beautifully illustrated. This exhibit, based on Dion's strong ecological concerns, was culled from a series of pseudo-archaeological digs undertaken in Providence, Brockton and New Bedford. Contributions from Gregory Volk, Leah Rosenmeier, Denise Markonish, Antone G. Souza, Jr., and Murney Gerlach. Photography by Bob Braine. 49p.