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Last Dandy, Ralph Barton, The: American Artist, 1891-1931by: Kellner, Bruce

Last Dandy, Ralph Barton, The: American Artist, 1891-1931
by: Kellner, Bruce

Hardcover. Columbia, Missouri, Univ of Missouri Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352421

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Last Dandy, The: Ralph Barton, American Artist 1891-1931by: Kellner, Bruce

Last Dandy, The: Ralph Barton, American Artist 1891-1931
by: Kellner, Bruce

Hardcover. Columbia, MI, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 353383

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Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desireby: Slusher, Katherine

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desire
by: Slusher, Katherine

Softcover. Prestel, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Roland Penrose met Lee Miller's lips a year before he met the rest of her - in a painting by Man Ray. It was a fitting introduction for two artists who were linked by an art movement that delighted in chance encounters. Together they forged a life joined by a common cause - surrealism. This illustrated joint biography tells the story of how a fashion model turned photographer and an English Quaker turned art collector and surrealist painter influenced modern art with their vision and passion, and created a life together that was in itself a work of art.

Record # 362716

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Leon Knoll: A Spoken Memoirby: Hale, Nancy & Fredson Bowers

Leon Knoll: A Spoken Memoir
by: Hale, Nancy & Fredson Bowers

Hardcover. Charlottesville, NC, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 140 pages + 163 b&w prints. Monograph of a painter who carried the standard of realism through the 20th century while the artistic movement raced toward abstraction. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and white pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap.

Record # 805408

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Leonardo Da Vinciby: Isaacson, Walter

Leonardo Da Vinci
by: Isaacson, Walter

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 599 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with gilt titles to spine & illustrated, sepia toned endpapers. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white, images beautifully presented to accompany text. Bright dust jacket with marginal wear. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750729

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Leonardo da Vinciby: Zubov, V. P.

Leonardo da Vinci
by: Zubov, V. P.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with black printed titles to mustard cloth spine. Dust jacket with moderate toning & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751105

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Leonardo; A Study in Chronology and Style by: Pedretti, Carlo

Leonardo; A Study in Chronology and Style
by: Pedretti, Carlo

Hardcover. NY, Johnson Reprint Corporation, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated with 22 color plates and 177 in b&w. Contents: 1). Preface. 2). Major events in Leonardo's life. 3). The river. 4). The fiction. 5). Hercules. 6). Leda. 7). Bacchus. 8). Epilogue. 9). Bibliography. 10). Index. Smaller ownership sticker on inside front cover otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 385934

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Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Designby: Remington, R. Roger

Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Design
by: Remington, R. Roger

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Lester Beall, who died in 1969, was the first graphic designer to receive a one-man exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (in 1937) and was awarded the 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Institute of Graphic Artists, a sign of his importance in American graphic design. In full color, this book documents the work of his pioneering 44-year career-advertising, corporate-identity programs, product styling, packaging, exhibits, murals, annual reports, posters, books, and magazines for a wide range of clients, including the U.S. government, the International Paper Company, Martin Marietta Corporation, and many others.

Record # 351270

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Letters of Edwin Lutyens to His Wife, Lady Emily, Theby: Lutyens, Edwin/Clayre Percy & Jane Ridley (Editors)

Letters of Edwin Lutyens to His Wife, Lady Emily, The
by: Lutyens, Edwin/Clayre Percy & Jane Ridley (Editors)

Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to edges, creases to cover & spine. Light foxing throughout & to top edge. Toning to edges. Includes drawings in bw by the author, decorating his letters, memoirs. Over 20 additional portraits in black & white. Clean copy.

Record # 750717

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Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais - 2 Volumes, Theby: Millais, John Guille

Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais - 2 Volumes, The
by: Millais, John Guille

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover Volumes. Covers are 3/4 leather with marbled sections. Spine with raised bands, title and decoration in gilt. Marbled endpapers. This set Previously owned by Charles B. Woodcock Savage who achieved notoriety as the lover of King Karl of Wurttemberg and features his signature at the top of preliminary page in each volume. Gift inscription to Savage from Nellie on front endpapers of both volumes. Top edges gilt. Features 316 black & white illustrations. Volume 1 - Light wear. Clean, tight. Volume 2 - front cover hinge cracked, with loosening to spine strip up to 1" from top - hinge tender. Light wear otherwise. Overall, very good.

Record # 611998

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Life and Letters of Washington Allstonby: Flagg, Jared B.

Life and Letters of Washington Allston
by: Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805226

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Life and Letters of Washington Allstonby: Flagg, Jared B.

Life and Letters of Washington Allston
by: Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 372025

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Life and Times of R. Crumb - Comments From Contemporariesby: Beauchamp (Ed.), Monte

Life and Times of R. Crumb - Comments From Contemporaries
by: Beauchamp (Ed.), Monte

Softcover. NY, St. Martins Griffin, 1st Wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated in color, black & white by Crumb, 182 pages. Accolades and Reflections on the Controversial R. Crumb: "Robert Crumb--lurid, pornographic, sexy, twisted, hilarious, and depraved. The greatest American satirist is also its finest draftsman." --Joe Coleman "God bless Crumb. I've always been happy that there was someone as sick and twisted as I am." --George Carlin "I can think of no one more unqualified to say anything about Robert Crumb's artwork than myself. In fact, it's useless for most cartoonists of my generation to do so; without him, there wouldn't "be" any cartoonists of my generation." --Chris Ware, "The Acme Novelty Library"

Record # 59915

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Life and Works of John Singleton Copley, Theby: Bayley, Frank W.

Life and Works of John Singleton Copley, The
by: Bayley, Frank W.

Hardcover. Boston, The Taylor Press, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages. Brown cloth covers, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate to blank endpaper, light wear to covers, edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806051

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Life in Photography, Aby: Steichen, Edward

Life in Photography, A
by: Steichen, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Photographs and text by Edward Steichen. Includes a biographical outline. Illustrated end pages. 249 black and white plates. Measures 11.5x10 inches. Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Later he worked for Conde Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair. After World War II he became the Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Note: This book is the First edition, second printing (The book was originally published in 1963 with duotone and color plates, this second printing is in black and white only). In a very good dust jacket.

Record # 352889

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Life of James McNeill Whistler, The (Two Volumes)by: Pennell, E.R./J. Pennell

Life of James McNeill Whistler, The (Two Volumes)
by: Pennell, E.R./J. Pennell

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st US, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes. Rebound in three-quarter red morocco gilt and cloth, with raised bands along spine. Top edges gilt. Many black & white illustrations with tissue guards. Light rubbing to spine edges at hinges. Rubbed, chipping at cover corners. Clean, tight copies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 611536

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Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luksby: Gambone, Robert L.

Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks
by: Gambone, Robert L.

Hardcover. Jackson [Miss.], University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor edgewear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458926

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Lillian Orlowsky: The Signature Is in the Workby: Orlowsky/Myrna Harrison & Claire Sprague (Eds.) , Lillian

Lillian Orlowsky: The Signature Is in the Work
by: Orlowsky/Myrna Harrison & Claire Sprague (Eds.) , Lillian

Softcover. Cape Cod Museum of Art/Providencetown Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 59 pages, exhibition catalog illustrated in color. Essays by Robert Henry, April Kingsley, Myra Harrison and Claire Sprague. Lillian Orlowsky painter, teacher, curator, critic and mentor (Born 1914 in New York City, died August 7, 2007 in Provincetown) I was fortunate to have taken part in one of the most important periods of art in this century. The 1930's through the 1950's saw a cultural upheaval where diverse concepts in painting went from one extreme to another: from realism to abstraction. In the forefront were the WPA (Works Projects Administration - Art Project) and in some measure the Provincetown Art Association. They promoted cultural awareness of the different pictorial concepts which were the beginning of the changing scene of plastic expression.

Record # 351227

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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchiby: Herrera, Hayden

Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
by: Herrera, Hayden

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 592 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Remainder mark on page block. Combining the personal correspondence of and interviews with Noguchi and those closest to him from artists, patrons, assistants and lovers Herrera has created an authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most important sculptors. She locates Noguchi in his friendships with such artists as Buckminster Fuller and Arshile Gorky, and in his affairs with women including Frida Kahlo and Anna Matta Clark.

Record # 352458

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Looking Back at Francis Baconby: Bacon, Francis, Sylvester, David

Looking Back at Francis Bacon
by: Bacon, Francis, Sylvester, David

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages with 52 color and 102 b&w plates. A unique portrait of the artist by an scholar, who draws on his personal experience of Bacon. A survey of his artistic development precedes critical studies of selected aspects of the artist and his work. Previously unpublished extracts of the author's conversations with Bacon are reproduced and followed by a brief account of Bacon's life.

Record # 353226

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Lord of Mess: My Head Is a Visual Township [With CDROM]by: Jaybo

Lord of Mess: My Head Is a Visual Township [With CDROM]
by: Jaybo

Softcover. Berlin, Gestalten Verlag, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This monograph features Jaybo's font designs, logos, record covers and examples of his work as the Art Director of the lifestyle magazine Style and the Family Tunes.

Record # 350266

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Lord of Mess: My Head Is a Visual Township [With CDROM]by: Jaybo

Lord of Mess: My Head Is a Visual Township [With CDROM]
by: Jaybo

Softcover. Berlin, Gestalten Verlag, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This monograph features Jaybo's font designs, logos, record covers and examples of his work as the Art Director of the lifestyle magazine Style and the Family Tunes.

Record # 350267

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Loring W. Coleman: Living and Painting in a Changing New Englandby: Loring Colemam/Hugh Fortmiller (Editor), Henry Adams (Foreword)

Loring W. Coleman: Living and Painting in a Changing New England
by: Loring Colemam/Hugh Fortmiller (Editor), Henry Adams (Foreword)

Hardcover. Hudson Hills, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages, color illustrations. Loring Coleman's voice as a storyteller is full of his humor and sense of wonder as he tells us about his life and then gives us the tales behind the beauty and mystery of over 50 of his paintings, most of which are reflections of a disappearing life in New England. He begins by describing the moment when his eyesight failed, and he learned that after seven decades as an artist, he might never paint again. His creation of this book became his response. With spirited memories of the intriguing characters who affected his life, Loring describes his upbringing in the tough Chicago of the 1930s, his discovery of idyllic rivers in Concord, Massachusetts, and his adventures as a motorcyclist and young student of great art teachers. He tells of marrying his wife Katinka the day before Pearl Harbor, entering the military, and quickly finding himself commanding the U.S. Army's largest World War II art department. He then traces his energetic years as a teacher, traveling art historian, and lover of Bavaria and Austria. In the context of his rich personal life, Loring shows us his paintings, as he reveals the many amusing, exasperating, and provocative experiences surrounding the artistic choices he made as he became one of New England's most revered artists. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMECTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 385919

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Louis Michel Eilshemiusby: Paul J. Karlstrom

Louis Michel Eilshemius
by: Paul J. Karlstrom

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Louis Michel Eilshemius was a born poet-visionary. His paintings reveal a gift for lyrical expression, an ability to impart an unearthly, dreamlike quality to canvas, and an extraordinary originality. The abundant illustrations in this first comprehensive volume on the artist attest to the importance of his contribution to American art at the turn of the century. In his sensitive text, Paul J. Karlstrom illuminates the contradictions that provide the key to understanding Eilshemius's life and art. Thoroughly trained in the academic manner, Eilshemius later became known primarily as the painter of bizarre, 'primitive' nudes. His early paintings, landscapes influenced by the Barbizon school and Camille Corot, differ dramatically from his late works, which are naive and often disturbing fantasies. At his best, Eilshemius was a magician of the canvas, yet his unstable character and unrealistic ambitions prevented him from fully realizing his talent.

Record # 371117

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Louise Dahl-Wolfeby: Dahl-Wolfe, Louise

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
by: Dahl-Wolfe, Louise

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Renowned as the world's leading female fashion photographer from the 1930s to the 1960s, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was acclaimed for her fashion photographs, still lifes, and portraits. This book is the first comprehensive retrospective on this important photographer. In addition to her fashion images, the 200 photographs gathered here include Louise Dahl-Wolfe's experimental color work and black-and-white portraits of such luminaries as Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Josephine Baker, Christian Dior, Orson Welles, Isamu Noguchi, and others. In sum, they evoke a glamorous and unforgettable era.

Record # 353370

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Louise Nevelson, Dawns + Dusks: Conversations with Diana MacKownby: Nevelson, Louise

Louise Nevelson, Dawns + Dusks: Conversations with Diana MacKown
by: Nevelson, Louise

Softcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. White glossy covers with b&w photographic plate of Louise Nevelson, perfect binding, introduction by John Canaday, profusely illustrated throughout with large b&w plates. Light rubbing to covers; otherwise a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 806472

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Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurentby: Petkanas, Christopher

Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent
by: Petkanas, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.

Record # 397827

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Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurentby: Petkanas, Christopher

Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent
by: Petkanas, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.

Record # 358602

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Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurentby: Petkanas, Christopher

Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent
by: Petkanas, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.

Record # 374223

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Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Openby: Hoban, Phoebe

Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open
by: Hoban, Phoebe

Hardcover. Boston, New Harvest, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Hoban has written an insightful book into what may have made Lucian Freud the great painter he came to be. From his early days in Germany with his grandfather, Sigmund Freud, to his subsequent life in London, where his family moved before the war, we see Lucian Freud gradually developing from an intense adolescent who often resorted to physical violence in conflicts with others to the powerful figure who changed the face of Realism. His many liaisons with women are described in detail: Hoban offers us a candid sketch of who the most prominent women in his life were, his problems with commitment and other moral conundrums we are forced to consider in his character, such as his questionable demand on his lovers that they use no form of birth control, resulting in at least 14 children, most out of wedlock. Along with that, Freud's gambling addiction and his love of risk are explored by Hoban in a way that allows us a glimpse into Freud's psyche that is invaluable for anyone wanting to understand in a more in depth way the factors that might have contributed to his enormous talents and output.

Record # 352403

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Lucien Pissarroby: Meadmore, W. S.

Lucien Pissarro
by: Meadmore, W. S.

Hardcover. London, Constable & Company, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 252 pages including index. Illustrated in b&w and color. Biography of Lucien Pissarro, artist and son of Camille, and his family. With an introduction by John Rewald. Name on inside front cover (behind flap), chunk gone from rear panel of dust jacket.otherwise clean.

Record # 396847

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Lyonel Feiningerby: Ness, June L

Lyonel Feininger
by: Ness, June L

Softcover. NY, Praeger, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages, b&w and color plates. Very light edge wear, else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451005

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Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by: King, Ross

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
by: King, Ross

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with wrap-around dust jacket band with title. 403 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these paintings is little known; Ross King's Mad Enchantment tells the full story for the first time and, in the process, presents a compelling and original portrait of one of our most popular and cherished artists. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 396762

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Magritte and Photographyby: Roegiers, Patrick

Magritte and Photography
by: Roegiers, Patrick

Hardcover. NY, Ludion/ D.A.P., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 167 pages with color and b&w photographs & illustrations. Red cloth boards. Dustjacket. A nice crisp copy. Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. Includes notes and acknowledgements. Rene Magritte, the Surrealist artist, began experimenting with photography at any early age. This book studies the ways in which the photographic medium played a constant role in Magritte's social and artistic life.

Record # 357547

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Make Way: The Story of Robert McCloskey, Nancy Schon, and Some Very Famous Ducklings (SIGNED COPY)by: Kunkel, Angela Burke / Keane, Claire

Make Way: The Story of Robert McCloskey, Nancy Schon, and Some Very Famous Ducklings (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kunkel, Angela Burke / Keane, Claire

Hardcover. NY, Random House Studio , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout by Claire Keane. SIGNED BY KUNKEL on the title page. In the beginning, there was a boy named Robert McCloskey, growing up in Ohio, his hands always moving, always creating. Many years later, after attending art school in Boston, he would reflect on his days wandering through Boston Garden and write the classic picture book Make Way for Ducklings. In the beginning, there was also a girl named Nancy Sch n. She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, working in her father's greenhouse, twisting wire and boughs into wreaths. Many years later, Nancy would look at Robert's drawings in Make Way for Ducklings and get the seed of an idea. That seed became the beloved bronze sculptures of Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings that stand in Boston Garden today. This stunning and clever picture book biography intertwines the lives of two phenomenal artists--who were contemporaries and friends--and reveals the extraordinary impact they've had on generations of children.

Record # 385992

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Man Ray: American Artist by: Baldwin, Neil

Man Ray: American Artist
by: Baldwin, Neil

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 449 pages, b&w illustrations. Man Ray was the quintessential modernist figure - painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, poet, and philosopher. One of the most fascinating of the Surrealists who transformed the Paris art world during the 1920s, Man Ray was an enigma - a Dadaist who revered the Old Masters, an anarchist pursued by wealthy patrons. Driven to make his mark in as many art forms as possible, he struggled bitterly to win acceptance as a painter even as his skill as a photographer brought him world wide fame. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 398055

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Man Ray: Self Portraitby: Ray, Man

Man Ray: Self Portrait
by: Ray, Man

Softcover. Boston MA, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, paperback. Man Ray's extraordinary autobiography, which reveals the entertaining life and times of the remarkable artist. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Lower fore edge corner slightly creased. Light pen mark to front flyleaf. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 952470

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Man Ray: Writings on Artby: Ray, Man; Mundy, Jannifer (editor)

Man Ray: Writings on Art
by: Ray, Man; Mundy, Jannifer (editor)

Hardcover. US, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Record # 8230011

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Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freudby: Gayford, Martin

Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
by: Gayford, Martin

Hardcover. US, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Lucian Freud, perhaps the world's leading portrait painter, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting, and he vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of creating a work of art. As Freud completes his portrait of Gayford, so the art critic produces his own portrait of the artist, giving a rare insight into Freud's working practice. Through their wide-ranging conversations, the reader learns not only about Freud's choice of models, lighting, setting, pose, and colors, but also about his likes and dislikes, his encounters and experiences, and the ways in which he approaches his relationship with each portrait subject. Gayford records Freud's observations on the work of Michelangelo, Vermeer, Titian, Chardin, Goya, van Gogh, Mondrian, and his great contemporary Francis Bacon. The book is full of revealing anecdotes about the people Freud has met in the course of his long career, including Max Ernst, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, George Orwell, W. H. Auden, Greta Garbo, and his grandfather Sigmund Freud.

Record # 350757

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Many Worlds of Arshile Gorky, Theby: Mooradian, Karlen

Many Worlds of Arshile Gorky, The
by: Mooradian, Karlen

Softcover. Chicago, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 327 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers, else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451034

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Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrativeby: Harshav, Benjamin

Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative
by: Harshav, Benjamin

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 1056 pages, b&w illustrations. This work presents a biography of the artist Marc Chagall in dialogue with events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses different aspects of his life (1889-1985) including his roots in folk culture, his personal relationships and his interests.

Record # 351880

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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by: Annie Cohen Solal

Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
by: Annie Cohen Solal

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 281 pages. A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. Clean copy.

Record # 382261

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Marsden Hartleyby: Haskell, Barbara

Marsden Hartley
by: Haskell, Barbara

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum & University of New York Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages illustrated throughout with plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear and some yellowing to back cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605708

Price: $25.00 
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Marsden Hartleyby: Scott, Gail R.

Marsden Hartley
by: Scott, Gail R.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 10 x 12". 187 pages. 77 b&w, 77 color plates. The major monograph on American modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). In addition to insightful and sensitive text, there is included a chronology, index, list of exhibitions, collections and selected bibliography. Wonderful color plates. Clean copy.

Record # 385256

Price: $40.00 
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Martha Graham: Portrait of the Lady as an Artistby: Letherman, LeRoy

Martha Graham: Portrait of the Lady as an Artist
by: Letherman, LeRoy

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, with photographs throughout by Martha Swope. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854253

Price: $18.00 
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Martha's Vineyard and Other Places: My Third Sketchbook from the Summer of 1982by: Hockney, David

Martha's Vineyard and Other Places: My Third Sketchbook from the Summer of 1982
by: Hockney, David

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams Inc, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Facsimile replica of David Hockney's sketchbook. Unpaginated Hardcover. Comes with 31 page explanatory softcover that accompanies hardcover, both in slipcase. Very clean, tight hardcover with marble leather boards. Yellowing to softcover wrapper edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Minor soiling and wear to slipcover. Slight yellowing around edges. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353272

Price: $70.00 
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Master of Shadows The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubensby: Lamster, Mark

Master of Shadows The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
by: Lamster, Mark

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Master of Shadows weaves a gripping drama of 17th-century cloak-and-dagger diplomacy with an insightful, authoritative exploration of Peter Paul Rubens' art and the private passions that influenced it.

Record # 381208

Price: $12.00 
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Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the Worldby: Beauchamp, Monte

Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World
by: Beauchamp, Monte

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 128 pages, comprised of sixteen "graphic biographies" of luminaries of comics and illustration. Beautifully illustrated by artists like Mark Alan Stamaty, Peter Kuper, Drew Friedman, Arnold Roth and others.

Record # 352608

Price: $35.00 
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Mather Brown: Early American Artist in Englandby: Evans, Dorinda

Mather Brown: Early American Artist in England
by: Evans, Dorinda

Hardcover. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Biography and critical analysis of American painter and portraitist Mather Brown. 297 pages illustrated with 9 full-color plates and 160 other black/white reproductions of paintings. Book is in near fine condition, very slight bumping at the ends of the spine. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and edge wear.

Record # 805084

Price: $20.00 
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Matisse on Artby: Flam, Jack D.

Matisse on Art
by: Flam, Jack D.

Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, Reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Covers in very good condition with light toning to rear cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750496

Price: $12.00 
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