Pittura e disegno

A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection

LOWRY, GLENN D. · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Washington, D.C. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery / Smithsonian Institution. 1988. (ISBN: 0-295-96677-7). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 240 pages; 76 paintings with one, or more, color illustrations and full catalogue entry; chronology; appendices; opening essay with b&w illust...

The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939: An Alliance of Art and Industry

ERICSSON, ANNE-MARIE; MARTA HOLKERS; GUNNEL HOLMÉR; [ET AL} · 1996 · Ultramarine Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 030007044-6). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Large 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 336 pages; About 280 illustrations, more than 160 in color; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography. An exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center f...

Dreams and Shadows: Thomas H. Hotchkiss in Nineteenth-Century Italy

NOVAK, BARBARA; TRACIE FELKER (CATALOGUE) · 1993 · Ultramarine Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

New York, The New York Historical Society / Universe Books. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-87663-778-0). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 139 pages; numerous illustrations in color and b&w. An extraordinary landscape painter, much admired by fellow arti...

Presenting Stefano Della Bella, Seventeenth-Century Printmaker

MASSAR, PHYLLIS DEARBORN · 1971 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-87099-109-4). Cloth, 4to. 141 pages; numerous (perhaps more than 100) prints reproduced in facsimile size. Book in nearly fine condition; jacket likewise except for fading of the spine. Very Good/Very Good.

Benjamin West: American Painter at the English Court

STALEY, ALLEN (TEXT); ARNOLD LEHMAN (FOREWORD); SONA JOHNSTON, TRISH WATERS (CHRONOLOGY) · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

The Baltimore Museum of Art. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-912298-64-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 119 pages; 69 catalogued works; illustrations in b&w and color; chronology; bibliography. An important retrospective exhibition. Fine.

French Painting : Between the Past and the Present. Artists, Critics, and Traditions from 1848 to 1870

SLOANE, JOSEPH C. · 1973 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. 1973. (ISBN: 0-691-00306-8). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 241 pages followed by a section of 90 b&w illustrations. Very Good.

Reflections of Nature: Flowers in American Art

FOSHAY, ELLA M. · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-87427-046-4). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 202 pages; 149 color illustrations; Bibliography; checklist. The first major museum (the Whitney) survey of American flower painting presented withi...

New World Visions of Household Gods & Sacred Places: American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1650-1914

SCULLY, VINCENT · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Boston, Little, Brown. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-8212-1647-3). Cloth, 4to. 184 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. Based but not limited to works in the American Wing of the Metropolitan; based also on the public television series of the same title. Fine/Fine.

Kurt Schwitters

SCHWITTERS, KURT; HANS BOLLINGER; WERNER SCHMALENBACH; ERNST SCHWITTERS · 1978 · Ultramarine Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

Köln, Galerie Gmurzynska. 1978, First Edition. Pictorial Paper Boards, Square 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue, 169 pages; 113 catalogued works; more than 100 full-page illustrations, color and b&w. Includes i (A Manifesto) and MERZ, both by Schwitters. Cover portrait photo of the ar...

Schatzkammer Der Residenz München - Katalog

1970 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

München, Bayerische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser. 1970. Cloth, 8vo. 390 pages followed by 80 full-page b&w plates; 1258 catalogued items. A few notes in margins, otherwise clean and tight. Very good/No Jacket.

Manet: The Execution of Maximilian - Painting, Politics, and Censorship

WILSON-BAREAU, JULIET; JOHN HOUSE; DOUGLAS JOHNSON · 1992 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

London, National Gallery Publications. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-691-03209-2). Cloth, 4to. 138 pages; 115 illustrations, color and b&w; Provenance and Exhibition History of the Maximilian Paintings; Chronology 1821-84 (global historic events); Bibliography. An exhibition o...

Textiles in the Metropolitan Museum of Art/ the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

1995 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1995. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 80 pages; well illustrated in color. MMA Bulletin Winter 1995/96. Very Good.

North of the Apennines: Sixteenth-Century Italian Painting in Venice and the Veneto - the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

BAYER, ANDREA · 2005 · Ultramarine Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,117)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2005. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Museum Bulletin, 48 pages; color illustrations throughout; Sources. MMA Bulletin Summer 2005. Fine.

Design for Life

YELAVICH, SUSAN · 1997 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Rizzoli. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-910503-64-8). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 192 pages; filled with color illustrations. Published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the museum. Fine.

The Decorative Art of Today

LE CORBUSIER; JAMES I DUNNETT (TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED) · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press. 1987. (ISBN: 0-262-12118-2). Cloth, 8vo. 214 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. "The first English translation of Le Corbusier's densely illustrated polemic against the crafts tradition and superfluous ornament in interior decoration."-...

The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art

RATCLIFF, CARTER · 1996 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-374-15381-7). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 352 pages; 4 color plates; 93 b&w illustrations; endnotes; Illustration Credits; Index. Fine/Very Good.

Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist

LUDINGTON, TOWNSEND · 1998 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Ithaca, Cornell University Press. 1998. (ISBN: 0-8014-8580-0). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 327 pages; color and b&w reproductions. The author has written another book on Hartley and a biography of John Dos Passos. Very Good.

Towards Post-Modernism; Decorative Arts and Design Since 1851

COLLINS, MICHAEL · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Boston, Little, Brown. 1987, 1st U.S Edition. (ISBN: 0-8212-1687-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 176 pages; 16 color, 149 b&w illustrations; A-Z of Artists and Designers. Fine.

Worlds of Art: Painters in Victorian Society

GILLETT, PAULA · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-8135-1459-2). Cloth, 8vo. 299 pages ; illustrations in color and in b&w. Broadening the understanding of English social and cultural history to include the role of contemporary art and artists, ...

Phillips de Puy & Luxembourg 20th - 21st Century Design Art

PHILLIPS · 2001 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York, Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg. 2001. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Auction Catalogue, 261 pages; 237 items/lots of designer furniture and decorative arts illustrated in color with full description including designer/manufacturer, materials, size, often provenan...