THE PERMANENT PALETTE

by Fischer, Martin

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Mountain Lake Pk., Md.:: National Publishing Society,, 1930. Hardcover; dust jacket frayed at edges & corners; nickel-size red ink spot on rear panel of jacket. Book: contents untrimmed; otherwise, clean, binding tight, condition good.. bibliography + painter's terms glossary. With 4 full-pg. color plates. Physiology Prof / chemist-researcher in colloidal chemistry, Martin Henry Fischer M.D. (avocation: landscape oil painter) chemically studied why paintings of Rembrandt & Gainsborough kept color freshness while Sargent's & the Moderns' did not. ||| Discusses--causes of pigment non-permanence; classes of oil pigments; colors of Light vs. colors of Pigment; Transparents & Lakes--natural & synthetic colors; not-so-safe earth pigments; foundations & grounds; media; palettes of The Masters, Moderns, & the Munich Society for Advancement of Rational Painting Technique; etc. ||| `In these is written the degree of permanence...'