|
TOULOUSE-LAUTRECby Mack, Gerstle1st Edition
Book description: NY: Alfred A, Knopf, 1953 FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING (Reprint of the 1938 First Edition). Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo (6 x 8.5"). viii, 12, (42), xv, 358, (1), xxiv pp. 2nd Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's blue cloth over light blue boards, gilt (yellow) lettering on spine, gilt (yellow) embossed medallion on cover. Fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with 58 B&W reproductions and photographs and frontispiece. Water stain on rear of dust jacket, which is chipped at the head of the spine. The volume is tight and square and all pages and plates are clean and bright. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. The dust jacket is a color reproduction of L'Anglais au Moulin Rouge, while the frontispiece is a B&W reproduction of the same work. Includes Bibliography and Index. This is the first complete biography in English of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) whose short but intensely active life is portrayed against a colorful gay nineties background of dance-halls, brothels, cafes, theatres and racecourses. The book contains much new material from letters and other documents as well as personal interviews with Lautrec’s surviving contemporaries. A descendant of one of the noblest families in France, grotesquely deformed, hideously ugly, Lautrec voluntarily renounced the life of a country gentleman for the tawdry environment of Montmartre, where dissipation wrecked his health and brought about his premature death at the age of thirty-seven. Strangely enough, drink and debauchery seemed to have had little effect on his work; he remained to the end a great artist; a sensitive painter, a superb draughtsman and lithographer, and an unrivalled designer of pictorial posters. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Bookseller Terms of Sale
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned in the same condition within 30 days of receipt for a full refund. |
|||||
(US)
