Arti decorative e design

Gustave Courbet, 1819-1877

HUYGHE, RENÉ · 1960 · Ultramarine Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts. 1960. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 247 pages; 86 catalogued, illustrated works; most in black-and-white, several full-page color. Essay by Huyghe. Very Good.

The Art of the July Monarchy: France 1830 to 1848

(BEZUCHA, ROBERT J.) · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Columbia, University of Missouri Press. 1990. (ISBN: 0-8262-0721-9). Cloth, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 314 pages; 48 color plates, 225 b&w illustrations. Considered within the historical context are history painting, landscape painting, portraiture, caricature, book illustrati...

Origins of Design: Bronze Age and Celtic Masterworks

WARD, MICHAEL (INTRODUCTION) · 0 · Ultramarine Books

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

New York, Michael Ward, Inc.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Slim 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, no date. 75 catalogued items; 38 are illustrated in color or b&w photographs. Each catalogued item is well described. Short bibliography. Axes, spear heads, bracelets, dress pins, neck...

The Painter As Historian. Mythological, Religious, Secular: Paintings of the XV to XIX Centuries

ANONYMOUS · 1962 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

New York, Wildenstein. 1962. Printed Wrapper (softcover), Small 4to. Gallery exhibition catalogue, 69 pages; 42 b&w plates. Preceding the plates an essay on each places the painting (i.e. the subject of the painting) in its historical context. The exhibition was for the benefi...

Manet / Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting

TINTEROW, GARY AND GENEVIÈVE LACAMBRE ; DEBORAH L. ROLDÁN; JULIET WILSON-BAREAU; [ET AL] · 2002 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

New York; New Haven, The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press. 2002. (ISBN: 1588390403). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Thick 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 592 pages; 500 color text illustrations; 226 works in the Catalogue, each with a thumbnail illustration and fu...

The Pieced Quilt an American Design Tradition

HOLSTEIN, JONATHAN · 1973 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society. 1973, First Printing. (ISBN: 08212053410). Cloth, 4to. 192 pages; 96 color plates, most full-page; 59 b&w illustrations. A celebration of "the skilled hand and the practiced eye" of this "feminine art". Clean throughout; dustja...

Needlepoint from America's Great Quilt Designs

DAVIS, MARY KAY AND HELEN GIAMMATTEI · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Workman Publishing. 1974, First Printing. (ISBN: 0911104410). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Ill.: Elizabeth Meyer. 170 pages; "Over fifty classic patterns to needlepoint, each with full-color and b&w photographs and large stich-by-stich diagrams". Clean through...

More Needlepoint from America's Great Quilt Designs

DAVIS, MARY KAY AND HELEN GIAMMATTEI · 1977 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Workman Publishing. 1977, First Printing. (ISBN: 089480006x). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Ill.: Elizabeth Meyer. 208 pages; "sixty-two designs, each shown in both full-color and b&w photographs; for every design, easy-to-follow stiching diagrams." Featuring c...

Art Nouveau in Prague

BALAJKA, PETR · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

ASCO d.i. PRAHA. (ISBN: 8085377098). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. c.1990. Unpaginated but 32 pages. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. A concise survey of Art Nouveau in Europe and in Prague specifically. Attention is directed to the architecture, architectur...

Gold of the Americas / the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

JONES, JULIE; HEIDI KING · 2002 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2002. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 56 pages, generously illustrated in color. MMA Bulletin Spring 2002. Edges lightly rippled, no stains or other discoloring. Good.

Cezanne, a Biography

REWALD, JOHN · 1986 · Ultramarine Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0810907755). Cloth, Folio. 288 pages; 270 illustrations, including 118 color plates with 4 2-panel gatefolds. Cezanne's life traced from his boyhood years, with friends, such as schoolmate Emile Zola, his associations with...

Alivar Museum

ANONYMOUS · 2001 · Ultramarine Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

Firenze, Alivar. Printed Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. Catalogue, c. 2001. 216 pages; chairs, sofas, benches, shelving, tables, lamps. Color illustrated. Very Good.

Frederick Kiesler

PHILLIPS, LISA WITH ESSAYS BY DIETER BOGNER; CYNTHIA GOODMAN; BARBARA LESAK; JEANNE T. NEWLIN; · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art / W.W. Norton & Co. 1989. (ISBN: 0874270634). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 170 pages; 155 b&w illustrations in the main text, many more in Chronology. The text and the illustrations consider the wide scope o...

Gaugin

THOMSON, BELINDA · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

London, Thames and Hudson. 1987. (ISBN: 0500202206). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 216 pages; 182 illustrations, including 31 color. Gauguin's painting, sculpture, prints and ceramics. Clean, tight copy. Very Good.

The Flowering of the French Renaissance / the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

WARDROPPER, IAN · 2004 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2004. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Museum Bulletin, 48 pages; well illustrated, mostly in color. Paintings, engravings, decorative arts, armor, and more . MMA Bulletin Summer 2004. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine.

Mosaici Di San Marco / Mosaics of San Marco

MARIACHER, GIOVANNI · 1980 · Ultramarine Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Venezia, Edizioni d'Arte. 1980. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Folio. 62 pages; 41 mosaics reproduced in color, many full-page, four 2-page foldouts; floor plan of the basilica. Italian, German, English, French text. Clean throughout; tight binding. Very good.

Kurt Schwitters

EWIG, ISABELLE; DIDIER SEMIN; GABRIELLE MAHN · 1994 · Ultramarine Books

$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.97 | ¥5,270)

Paris, Publications Nuit et Jour. 1994. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Magazine, 65 pages; 4 essays with numerous illustrations. Beaux Arts Magazine, December, 1994. French text. Very Good.

Nadar

HAMBOURG, MARIA MORRIS; FRANÇOISE HEILBRUN; PHILIPPE NÉAGU; [ET AL] · 1995 · Ultramarine Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1995. (ISBN: 0870997378). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 272 pages; 97 full-page plates; 103 text illustrations; the Catalogue offers full commentary for each plate. The exhibition was held at the Musée d'Ors...

Animals in Motion

MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD; LEWIS S. BROWN (EDITED BY) · 1957 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, Dover. 1957. Cloth, 4to. 183 plates: animals of all kind. Previous owner's small ink stamp on the front free endpaper. Very Good/No Jacket.

Arminda Lopes - Miseráveis - a Estética Da Dor - Bronzes

NEJAR, CARLOS; CÍRIO SIMON; PAULO AMARAL; LEOPOLD NOSEK · 2007 · Ultramarine Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Brazil, MARGS - Museum of Art do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli. Pictorial Paper Boards, Square 4to. (2007). Not paginated. Essays discuss her work; the nature of this series of her works, destitution or misery; her work in context of our time. Numerous color photo illustratio...