France Art

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.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. A new account of Cezanne's complex relationship with his wife, who served as the subject of some of his most iconic portraits. Paul Cezanne's (1839-1906) portraits of Hortense Fiquet (1850-1922), his wife and the subject of some of his iconic portraits, rank among the most powerful of their kind in French modernism. Yet, posterity has not been kind to Madame Cezanne. She was called a distraction, blamed for her husband's "lackluster" landscapes, and disdained for her impenetrable expression in the paintings. The reality is more complex, for while Fiquet may not have been the passion of Cezanne's lifetime, she was a willing accomplice, as model, mother of his only son, and unwavering partner against all odds. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. New York, Delano Greenidge Editions, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. May Ray's iconic black and white photographs, originally published in Paris and New York in 1934. Introduction in English with French, German, Spanish, and Italian translations. Includes bibliography.

Hardcover. La Fabrica, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 391 pages, profusely illustrated. This excellent catalog contributes a wealth of new information, providing a valuable contribution to our understanding of Man Ray. The treasure trove of images and objects collected here is drawn from the large archives of the Man Ray Trust in Long Island, New York, and includes little known early works, documents and objects from his private life, working drawings and sketches for major works as well as innumerable familiar masterpieces.

Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. Professor Armi posits that the great third abbey at Cluny is the building where regional masons of different traditions first combined their talents to develop a new design, and that the artisans responsible for the masonry also created its sculpture. Volume I Text, 204 pages; Volume II contains 238 b/w Illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Throughout his long career, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) continually expanded the boundaries of his art. By repeating images in pairs, trios, and series, he conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting." In this fresh approach to a much-studied artist, prominent scholars from the United States and Europe examine more than sixty works in concise chapters that focus on this aspect of Matisse's working process. From early pairs such as Young Sailor I and II (1907-8) through a series of late studio scenes from Venice (1946-48), Matisse is shown revisiting a given theme with the aim of devising innovative, often radical, solutions to such problems as how to portray light, handle paint, select colors, and manipulate perspective.New technical studies of the early paired works and photographs documenting the evolution of his later paintings help to elucidate Matisse's complex evolution. In numerous excerpts from letters and interviews, he is revealed as an artist who regularly questioned himself and his methods, a man of powerful intellect who regarded each new painting as an adventure. A significant addition to art historical literature, Matisse: In Search of True Painting is a revelatory study of a seminal figure in 20th-century modernism.

Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing , 1st US, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, deep green cloth with gilt lettering. 164 pages, 110 plates. Covers modern French art of the early twentieth century in text and through black and white illustrations. Discusses such topics as Fauvism, Futurism, and popular art as well as specific French painters.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace And Company , reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 424 pages, 10 tipped-in color plates & 48 double-sided b/w plates. index. This book is an attempt to tell the story of modern French painting as developed by the Impressionists and subsequent adventurers in the last hundred years in Paris. No date, most likely early 1950s. Clean copy.

Softcover. Edinburgh, Luath Press Ltd, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. In 1923 Charles and Margaret Mackintosh escaped Britain for France.Monsieur Mackintosh is the only book available on Mackintosh's years in France. With reproductions of 40 of his French paintings alongside photographs of the actual locations today, and images from the period 1923-1927, this is a comprehensive and pictorial account. Written in close collaboration with experts from Glasgow University, the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Glasgow School of Art, and edited by Professor Pamela Robertson, author and leading expert on Mackintosh, Monsieur Mackintosh includes new research and is written with the French and English translations side-by-side. Published to coincide with and accompany a major exhibition of Mackintosh's work in France Monsieur Mackintosh contains more than 250 images reproduced in full colour throughout.

NY, The Press of the American Institute of Architects., 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Complete with 24 watercolor prints and 44 plates. Loosely bound in case with cloth ties which has cracking along spine. Interior very good. Number 677 of 1000. Elephant folio 23" tall. "A Series of Historical Examples from Roman Times to the End of the XVIIIth Century." An appreciation of historic French infrastructure that survived WWI. Beautiful large color reproductions of original watercolors of bridges by Pierre Vignal; 35 black and white drawings by Louis C. Rosenberg & Samuel Chamberlain; 44 measured drawings, photographs, diagrams, and maps. DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

1934, Book: Very Good, Color art of French couple meeting in olden times. Watercolor art by T. M. Cleland. 10 X 13", small label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. New York , Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages. Color photos of the Paris Metro features signs, graffitti, artworks, architecture. The text is in English.

Hardcover. NY, Flammarion , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages. Color and b&w illustrations.

Softcover. Steidl, 2008, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The publication of Paris marks the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. Having left Switzerland in 1924, this 1951 trip to France was only Frank's second return to Europe after he had settled in New York City in 1947, and some of the images he made during that visit have become iconic in the history of the medium. The 80 photographs reproduced here, which were selected by Frank and editor Ute Eskildsen, suggest that Frank's experience of the "new world" had sharpened his eye for European urbanism. He saw the city's streets as a stage for human activity and focused particularly on the flower sellers. His work clearly references Atget and invokes the tradition of the flaneur.

Softcover. Monte Carlo, Andre Sauret, 1st wraps, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated card covers, French text, 13 color plates, b&w plates. Stamped #724 of 2,000 copies. Previous owner's stamp front end paper. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear.

Softcover. Paris, Musee de la Vie Romantique, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout. French text.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 588 pages, several color plates. Before Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services-the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Academie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-overlooked archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black and white cloth cover, slight wear to edges and corners. Dust jacket has minor edgewear. Previous owner's stamp on top edge. Illustrated by Jim Dine. Translated by Ron Padgett. Many b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, Les Editions De L'illustration, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong, 112 tipped-in color illustrations, tall 4to, printed tan boards. French art from the Middle Ages to the the 1940's. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 544 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Essays by various scholars on over 100 artists working in France, bibliography. Illustrated boards. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, color plates throughout. Exhibition catalog, five scholarly essays. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. teNeues, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Photographer Edward Quinn chronicles the sweet life of the French Riviera in the 1950s and 60s in this homage to the stylish celebrities who lived and loved on this chic coastline. Born in Dublin in 1920, Edward Quinn played Hawaiian guitar in Belfast, then went into the Royal Air Force. He eventually made his way to the Cote d'Azur, where he photographed world leaders, glamour girls and playboys, as well as figures from the worlds of art, music and literature. His most memorable work included images of an unknown Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly's first meeting with Prince Rainier, and a precocious Brigitte Bardot. His exacting eye showcased Picasso, T.S. Eliot, and Gary Cooper. With a polished technique and great patience and charm, Quinn caught some of the post-war Riviera's most memorable moments.