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Moscow-Leningrad: Mezhrabpom, 1924. Octavo (22.4 × 15.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 36, [4] pp. Occasional contemporary annotations in pencil; light wear to lower spine extremity; else about very good. Catalog, with introductory articles and reproductions, published for the 1924 Moscow showing of the First German Art Exhibition in the USSR, which was jointly organized by the Soviet state and German artists residing in the Soviet Union, to benefit artists in need. It was shown in Moscow, Leningrad, and Saratov and contained a broad selection of works representing tendencies such as Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, and Realism. The catalog lists 501 works by artists including Willi Baumeister, Heinrich Zille, Ernst Fuchs, Emil Nolde, Oskar Nerlinger, Moholy-Nagy, Max Pechstein, Rudolf Belling, Oskar Kokoshka, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, and many others. The exposure to such a wide range of leading German artists had a significant impact on the Russian avant-garde.… Read More

Carracci. 2 vols., XIV, 183, 123 pp. monograph on the Italian Baroque painter (1560-1609), notes, catalogue raisonné, bibliography, indices, 477 illustrations in the text and on plates (10 color). Complimentary article attached to front end-paper. 4to. Cloth, tear to dust jacket of first volume. London (Phaidon) 1971. (Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art). Freitag 1754. Arntzen R 74.

Brief introductory text on the Bridgewater House Collection of Pictures followed by 120 full-page plates reproducing artwork in the Bridgewater House collection, each plate accompanied by a brief contextual caption and each artist represented by a thorough biography. Oversized folio. Full leather with raised spine, edgewear, abrasions, some small splitting along spine. Westminster (Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd.) 1903. Limited edition of 115 copies. Ex-Pierpont Morgan library with bookplate on pastedown. The Bridgewater collection was formed by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, who began collecting art late in his life after his nephew, Lord Gower, explained to him that Old Master paintings could be a worthwhile investment. In response, the Duke purchased all of the French and Italian paintings from the Orléans Collection. Upon his death, his nephew, the 2nd Marquis of Stafford (and his great-nephew, Francis Egerton) inherited the collection and became a prominent collector and patron, adding… Read More

Carpioni. 169 pp. monograph on the Italian painter (1613-1679) based in Vicenza, detailed and fully documented catalogue raisonné of paintings and engravings (documented, attributed, wrongly attributed, etc.), concordances, locations of works, extensive notes, bibliography, indices, 209 illustrations on plates (5 in color). 8vo. Cloth. Venice (Alfieri) 1961. Freitag 1731.

6 vols., with approx. 390 superb plates (30 in color, the others in photogravure on fine paper) accompanied by interleaved commentary on the objects, documenting the major collection of mostly Japanese, with some Chinese, art including paintings, lacquerwork, sculpture, ceramics, etc. Large folio. Silk-covered boards, elaborately tie-bound in the Japanese manner, each volume housed in chitsu case (most cases rubbed and chipped). Tokyo (Kokkasha) 1914. A complete set of the catalogue of a major collection put together at the turn of the 20th century; Choshunkaku is the name of the private museum established by Kawasaki Shozo, the founder of the Kawasaki Shipyard Company in Tokyo and Kobe who attained great wealth at the end of the 19th century. His adopted son, Kawasaki Yoshitaro, who is primarily responsible for compiling the present work, had to sell the collection in the 1930's. Notable for its plethora of masterpieces, some of which have appeared on the market in recent years, the catalogue remains… Read More

2 volumes: LXIX, XCIX, 729 pp. survey of 17th- and 18th-century German art, incl. essays by Biermann, Adolf Feulner, Albert Brinckmann, and Anton Kippenberg, indices of the artists and their works with brief biographical data and descriptions, 1326 illus., and 32 fine heliogravure plates showing paintings, pastels, drawings, miniatures, sculpture, silhouettes, and gold and silver objects. Large 4to. 3/4 leather & bds., rubbed. Leipzig (Schwabach) 1914. Limited ed. The survey was published in connection with the great exhibition held in Darmstadt in 1914, which laid the groundwork for research on the oeuvres of many previously neglected artists. Austrian and Swiss artists are also included.

Unpaginated introduction by Johann Gustav Droysen to a series of plates illustrating the mid-19th century murals in the Konigsschloss, Dresden by Eduard Bendemann, 12 highly detailed plates in excellent condition showing a variety of Classical subjects and a plan detailing their placement. Oblong folio. Boards, edges slightly rubbed. N.p., n.d., circa 1857.

78 pp. descriptive monograph on the Pinturicchio fresco cycle in the lavish 15th century Borgia Apartments, heavily annotated, lists, numerous text illus. (1 with color) after portraits, drawings, medals, signatures, etc., 133 fine plates (4 color, many in tones), bound out of order, showing maps, interior views, details of the frescos, etc. Folio. Brand-new professional cloth-covered boards. Some additional chipping, edgewear, minor toning and soiling. Rome (Danesi) 1897. One of 100 copies of the limited Italian edition. Ex-Pierpont Morgan library, bookplate would have been located on original front cover, acid burn from bookplate visible on flyleaf. 1897. Folio. 1/2 armorial gilt-tooled leather and bds. with wood veneer, rubbed and chipped. Rome (Danesi) 1897. One of 100 copies of the Italian edition. Freitag 9707.

Guido. XV, 121 pp. monograph on the 13th-century Sienese painter, his works and attributions, notes, bibliography, index, 128 illus. on plates. 4to. Cloth. d.j. Princeton (Princeton Univ. Press) 1964. Lucas p. 153. Freitag 5026. The work includes new information on Duccio and some of his contemporaries.

216, VII pp. Cyrillic-language reference volume on iconography of the Virgin Mary in Greek and Russian church art and its connection to early Italian Renaissance painting, by the well-known Russian icon scholar. Scholarly notes with bibliographic information. Illustrated profusely throughout with close to 150 text illustrations, primarily reproductions from photographs. Handwritten ink notation "Baron de Baye" to title page and a second ink notation to secondary title page. 4to. Cloth-backed marbled boards, black morocco label with gilt title to spine. Some slight soiling and rubbing, especially to extremities. St. Petersburg (Tovariscestvo R. Golike i A. Vil'borg) 1911. Kondakov was a Russian historian and a specialist in Byzantine and Russian art and Russian Orthodox culture. He created his own methodology for studying Russian icons, authoring a book simply titled "The Russian Icon", which he intended to be the definitive work on the subject. This book was the result of decades of scholarly research… Read More

1957. 4 vols.: Venetian School. 2 vols., XIV, 206 pp. text, 46 pp. topographical index, 1336 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color); and Florentine School. 2 vols., XIV, 222 pp. text, 39 pp. topographical index, 1480 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color). Small 4to. Cloth. London/New York (Phaidon) 1957-1968. Revised and considerably enlarged edition. Arntzen M 321, M 322. Two complete series of the fundamental work.

180 pp. volume (42cm x 50cm) on the Dutch painter, with photogravures scattered throughout the text, accompanied by full of list of plates with page numbers and owners of the works noted, half-title, photogravure portrait by M. Van der Maarel. Folio. Vellum with gilt and blindstamp decoration. Edgewear, soiling, abrasions, some warping. London (Alexander Moring Ltd/The De La More Press) and Amsterdam (Scheltema & Holkema's Boekhandel) n.d. (circa 1904). Ex-Pierpont Morgan library with bookplate on pastedown. Jacob Maris belonged to the Hague School of painters, considered by some to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

1898. Boilly. 230 pp. monograph on the genre painter, descriptive catalogue of over 1300 works incl. paintings exhibited at the Salons 1791-1824, notes, list of engravings, lithographs, etc., after Boilly, index, 30 illus. in the text and on plates. Some foxing throughout. 4to. Orig. printed wrpps., top of front cover quite rubbed. Paris (Soc. de la Propagation des Livres d'Art) 1898. Lucas p. 125. Freitag 1046.

Delacroix. LXII, 538 pp. catalogue raisonné, in chronological order, of 1968 works by Delacroix in various media, with small wood engravings of most works listed, introductory text, catalogue of portraits of Delacroix, notes, list of salon exhibitions, indices, 4 pp. of signatures, 2 heliogravure portrait frontispieces. A few small stains on fore-edge, cover separating. 4to. Orig. printed wrpps. Paris (Charavay) 1885. Lucas p. 139. Freitag 2704.

Paris: Devambez, 1910. Small folio (40.3 x 30 cm). Original boards with paper dust jacket and boards portfolio; 158 pp. Some dust-staining and splitting along spine of portfolio, minor dust-staining and light soiling to dust jacket, scattered light toning to pages with artwork, overall very good. From a limited edition of 250 total copies, one of 220 copies on Arches paper. 158-pp. volume with preface by Leon Bourgeois describing the social misery of women, with texts from a variety of contributors, including Paul Adam, Léonce Benedite, Eugene Brieux, Léon Frapié, Camille Lemonnier, Pierre Louÿs, Paul Margueritte, Victor Margueritte, Jean Richepin, and Gabriel Séailles. The highlight of the volume is the 10 original works by Charles Cottet, André Devambez, Abel Faivre, Gaston La Touche, Charles Léandre, Auguste Lepère, Bernard Naudin, Alfred Roll, Steinlen, and Jean Veber. There are also 25 reproductions of works from well-known artists including Carpaccio, Callot, Watteau, Hogarth, Goya,… Read More

xv, 206 pp. catalogue and description of the paintings in the new Vatican art gallery, heavily annotated, with index, 63 text illustrations, 126 fine plates including 10 in full color. Folio. Leather-backed boards, binding professionally repaired, some edgewear and chipping, contents in good condition. Bergamo (Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche) 1914. Ex-Pierpont Morgan library with bookplate on pastedown. The monumental catalogue of the paintings from the Quattrocento and later in the Vatican collections. The photographs of the works in this volume are of excellent quality and reveal details and defects of the paintings prior to modern restorations.

Borrani. X, 520 pp. monograph on the 19th-century Italian painter, including a fully illustrated descriptive catalogue of 617 attributed drawings and paintings, detailed biographical chronology, notes, bibliography, index, portrait frontispiece, ca. 135 additional illus. (45 full-page in color) from works and many documentary photographs. Large 4to. Cloth (spine shaken and reglued), d.j. Florence (Il Torchio) 1981. (I Maestri della Pittura Italiana dell'Ottocento). Borrani (1832-1905) worked for most of his life in Florence. Along with Telemaco Signorini and others, he became an important Italian plein-air painter, with an appealing style and sense of color.

A complete subscription portfolio of 20 chromolithographs, each 22" x 28", issued in ten monthly installments of 2 prints reproducing orig. watercolors of American birds by Pope with captioned guard leaves reprinting descriptive texts from a variety of sources incl. Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology" and Audubon's "Birds of America". Each installment bound-in with orig. illus. wrpps., prints tipped-in on larger plates of heavy card, some plates with pigment transfer to opposite leaf, 2 with losses at corner not affecting prints, a few small closed tears to text leaves or wrpps., a few plates sl. chipped at fore edge. Large folio. Three-quarter leather, spine with five raised bands, gilt lettering and gilt stamped bird motif in four compartments, marbled endpapers, corners rubbed and bumped, boards scuffed. New York (Scribner) 1877-1878. Ex-Pierpont Morgan library with bookplate on pastedown. Pope was a well-known commercial illustrator and sportsman who was also responsible for the popular… Read More