Histoire de Edouard Manet et son oeuvre avec un Catalogue des Pei ntures et des Pastels by Duret, Théodore - 1926

Paris: Bernheim-Jeune. 1926. 4th ed, first published in 1919. 8vo, softcover, illustrated pape r wrappers. 305 pp. An annotated catalogue of 327 paintings and 78 pastels, with a supplement of 18 additional pieces. Includes a brief bibliography. Good: Lightly shaken but fully intact with clean and bright pages. Covers lightly toned with chips at top of spine and lower 4” of front cover partially detached. Ex-libri s the Stendahl Art Gallery, Los Angeles. This volume was a well- used reference copy in the gallery’s reference library, hence t he rough condition. Until its recent closure, the Stendahl Galler y was one of America's oldest continuously operating private art galleries. Art from the Stendahl collections found a home in The Louvre and many other major institutions throughout the world. U pon closing the gallery, the family donated a significant collect ion of photographs and documentation to the Getty Research Instit ute. .