Walker, Anne ; Robert L. Herbert; Boston Athenaeum — Ann Walker's Painted Books. First Edition, Signed

The Boston Athenaeum, 2003. Original wraps. Oblong 4to. 28 x 21.7cm Envoi de l'artiste à Jacques et Madeleine Matarasso...OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 52188085: 64 pages : color illustrations ; Catalog of an exhibition of the same name, held at the Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery of the Boston Athenaeum, Feb. 14-May 3, 2003........Anne Walker is a printmaker and painter; she lives in Paris. Walker was born in 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1955 from Smith College; she spent her junior year in Paris, working at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse. In 1956 she returned to Paris to study with Johnny Friedlaender at his atelier; her first etchings were done there. She has continued to make prints, created etchings, and a number of fine-press books. Walker's graphic work has been exhibited worldwide since 1956 and is in public and private collections in Europe and the United States. Her husband, Bertrand Dorny, is also an artist.. In 1986 she took up painting, using gouache combined with pastel, a technique that has predominated in her work since then. With these materials she began exploring the format of the artist's book, which has allowed her to collaborate with poets and writers whom she admires - Michel Butor, Kenneth Koch and Peter Davison, to name a few. Much of her book work is concerned with the language of color and is characterized by a lyricism-sometimes playful, sometimes elegiac-that pairs well with literature.. Provenance. Estate of Jacques and Madeleine Matarasso. Nice, France.. The story of the Matarasso family, booksellers, gallery owners and publishers of illustrated books and prints, spans three generations of enthusiasts. The Matarassos played a leading role in the intellectual and cultural life of Paris and then Nice. "They devoted their lives to promoting the works on paper of artists and writers," recalls Laure Matarasso, who took up the torch, first with her father in 1993, then alone after his death in 2015.. 1911 - Henri Matarasso leaves Salonika (now Thessalonika) for France; 1916 - Birth of Jacques Matarasso, Henri's son, in Barcelona; 1933- Opening of Matarasso bookshop, 72, rue de Seine, Paris; 1941- Jacques moves to Nice; After initially setting up shop on rue Alberti in 1941, followed by a second on rue de Russie after the Liberation, Jacques Matarasso settled permanently at 2 rue Longchamp on July 1, 1950; 1993- Laure Matarasso, Jacques and Madeleine's daughter, continues the adventure by taking over the gallery in Nice; 2016- The bookstore-gallery moved from Rue Longchamp and, after a year of searching, opened at 46 Boulevard Risso, near Mamac and the Nucéra library, between Place Garibaldi and Acropolis in Nice. .