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Eastman Johnson - 1824-1906, an American Genre Painter

BAUR, JOHN I.H. · 1940 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.61 | £26.44 | ¥5,593)

Brooklyn Museum. 1940, Stated first edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 82 pages; 40 full-page plates; more than 100 paintings are listed in the exhibition catalogue. At the back in a General Catalogue are listed with brief descriptions and owner...

An Exhibition of European Art - 1450-1500

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION INTERNS (PRESENTED BY) · 1936 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.61 | £26.44 | ¥5,593)

Brooklyn Muaeum of Art. 1936, First Edition. Card Wrappers (softcover), 4to. not paginated. Paintings, Sculpture, Manuscripts and Books, Prints and Drawings, Tapestries and Textiles, Furniture, Ivories and Silversmiths Work, Metalwork, Arms and Armor, Ceramics and Glass: 304 i...

Modern Drawings

WHEELER, MONROE (ED) · 1945 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.07 | £15.11 | ¥3,196)

New York, Museum of Modern Art. 1945, Second Revised Edition. quarter-cloth, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 104 pages. An international survey beginning with Cézanne and including more than 100 other artists. Clean throughout; tight binding. Jacket tears repaired, some small loss ...

Paintings by John Trumbull at Yale University of Historic Scenes and Personages Prominent in the American Revolution

MORGAN, JOHN HILL · 1926 · Ultramarine Books

$50.00 (€45.16 | £37.76 | ¥7,990)

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1926, First Edition. quarter-cloth and paper boards, 4to. 90 pages; 19 b&w reproductions. Several of the illustrations are accompanied with a line-drawing key which identifies each person in the painting. Extensive Notes follow the plates and ...

L'Arte Mondiale Alla VII Esposizione Di Venezia

PICA, VITTORIO · 1907 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.33 | £75.53 | ¥15,981)

Bergamo, Istituto Italiano D'Arte Grafiche. 1907, First Edition. quarter-cloth & marbled boards, 4to. 394 pages; numerous b&w illustrations plus two tipped-in color reproductions with tissue guards. Of a Series of publications by this publisher recounting Esposizioni. Clean. H...

Man Ray

PENROSE, ROLAND, SIR (EDITOR) · 1975 · Ultramarine Books

$65.00 (€58.71 | £49.09 | ¥10,388)

Boston, New York Graphic Society. 1975, 1st U.S Edition. (ISBN: 0316544892). Cloth, 8vo. 208 pages; 20 color, 134 b&w illustrations. A good read of this adventurous life and career. The text connects nicely with the illustrations. Clean throughout; boards and jacket in very go...

Capolavori Dell Arte Moderna Italiana / Masterpieces of Modern Italian Art

MONTÚ, ERNESTO; ANTHONY BARCROFT (ENGLISH VERSION) · 1950 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.61 | £26.44 | ¥5,593)

Milano, Radio Giornale. 1950, First Edition. Printed Paper Boards, 8vo. not paginated; 20 full-page color plates. Carrà, De Chirico, Morandi, Sironi. Text, Italian and Engish. Pages and plates clean and bright; signatures open at the hinges, but still tied-in. Boards clean, wo...

10 Tapisseries - Michel Cadoret

CALDER, ALEXANDER (INTRODUCTION); RENÉ HUYGHE (NOTES); JACQUES LASSAIGNE (PREFACE); FRANÇOIS TABARD (STORY OF AUBUSSON, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES) · 1955 · Ultramarine Books

$55.00 (€49.68 | £41.54 | ¥8,789)

Paris / New York, Galerie Furstenberg / André Emmerich. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Small portfolio. c. 1955. 30 pages; 10 tipped-in color plates. "The edition of these tapestries is limited to the traditional seven weavings of each design. Every tapestry is created by the ...

The Things We See: Furniture - No. 3

RUSSELL, GORDON · 1947 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.07 | £15.11 | ¥3,196)

West Drayton, Middlesex, Penguin. 1947, First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 64 pages; numerous b& w illustrations. The discussion begins in earlier times of artisan handwork and follows through to modern furniture. The purpose of this series of books was to enco...

Impressions of the Art at the Panama-Pacific Exposition - with a Chapter on the San Diego Exposition and an Introductory Essay on the Modern Spirit in Contemporary Painting

BRINTON, CHRISTIAN · 1916 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.61 | £26.44 | ¥5,593)

New York, John Lane Company. 1916, First Edition. quarter-cloth and paper boards, 4to. 204 pages; 82 b&w illustrations, 5 color illustrations. First signature opened at the hinges between pp. 14 and 15, but still tied-in to the binding. Asian calligraphic stamp on the front en...

Twentieth-Century Italian Art

SOBY, JAMES THRALL AND ALFRED H. BARR, JR. · 1949 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.10 | £22.66 | ¥4,794)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art. 1949, First Edition. Pictorial Paper Boards, 4to. 144 pages; 143 plates, including 5 color. The Futurists, the Scuola Metafisica, Modigliani, De Chirico, Boccione, and on. When they were the contemporaries, active, on the scene, still fresh....

Modern Prints & Drawings: A Guide to a Better Understanding of Modern Draughtsmanship

SACHS, PAUL J. · 1954 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.58 | £18.88 | ¥3,995)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1954, First Edition. quarter-cloth w/ paper boards, 4to. 262 pages; 222 plates, all duo-tone. Chapters are organized in 'schools', e.g. "Cézanne and Post-Impressionism", or, "Italy". Sachs offers and essay on each school then selects a number of imag...

The Early Chirico

SOBY, JAMES THRALL · 1941 · Ultramarine Books

$85.00 (€76.78 | £64.20 | ¥13,584)

New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company. 1941, First Edition. Cloth, 4to. 120 pp. followed by 69 b&w full-page plates; color frontispiece. With brief reference to Chirico's childhood the text covers, roughly, 1905-1920; the plates 1910-1917. Gift inscriptions on the front free endpape...

Fourteen Americans

MILLER, DOROTHY C. (EDITED BY) WITH STATEMENTS BY THE ARTISTS AND OTHERS · 1946 · Ultramarine Books

$50.00 (€45.16 | £37.76 | ¥7,990)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art. 1946, First Edition. Pictorial Paper Boards, 4to. 80 pages; 80 b&w plates. Aronson, Culwell, Gorky, Hare, MacIver, Motherwell, Noguchi, Pereira, Pickens, Price Roszak, Sharrer, Steinberg, Tobey. Clean throughout; tight binding, about fine wi...

Photography, a Short Critical History

NEWHALL, BEAUMONT · 1938 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.33 | £75.53 | ¥15,981)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art. 1938, Second Edition - Revised and Emended. Cloth, 4to. 220 +2 pages; 95 b&w plates; Biographical Index. "The purpose of this book is to construct a foundation by which the significance of photography as an esthetic medium can be more fully ...

The Sharples: Their Portraits of George Washington and His Contemporaries

KNOX, KATHARINE MCCOOK · 1930 · Ultramarine Books

$80.00 (€72.26 | £60.42 | ¥12,785)

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1930, First Edition. Cloth, 4to. 134 pages; 129 b&w portrait reproductions, including 35 of George Washington and 3 of Martha Washington. Each portrait of the Washingtons includes media (usually pastel) and owner. Fascinating story of a family...

Rembrandt

MENPES, MORTIMER, WITH AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF REMBRANDT BY C. LEWIS HIND · 1905 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.33 | £75.53 | ¥15,981)

London, Adam and Charles Black. 1905. Decorated cloth boards, 4to. 50 pp.+ 2 adverisements; 16 color plates laid-on with tissue guards; text and plates on heavy paper stock. Leaves unopened. First signature, including frontispiece and title page is loose. Boards are soiled and...

Handbook of the Collection - Walters Art Gallery

ANONYMOUS · 1936 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.07 | £15.11 | ¥3,196)

Baltimore, Maryland, Walters Art Gallery. 1936. Cloth, 4to. Collection Guide, 178 pages; b&w illustrations throughout. The collection of Henry Walters who built the Gallery. Laid-in loosely are two folded sheets: Guide to the Exhibitions, which have floor plans and a list of c...

Chardin

DENVIR, BERNARD · 1950 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.84 | £9.06 | ¥1,918)

New York, Harper & Brothers. 1950, First American Edition. Cloth, Small 4to. 18 pages text followed by plates, 39 in-all, including 5 color. Very Good/Good.

Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France

TESNIERE, MARIE-HELENE AND PROSSER GIFFORD (EDITORS); EMMANUEL LE ROY LADURIE (INTRODUCTION) · 1995 · Ultramarine Books

$80.00 (€72.26 | £60.42 | ¥12,785)

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-300-06283-4). Cloth, Large 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 480 pages; 207 catalogued items that illustrate, in color, "a historical canvas that covers twelve centuries from the time of Charlemagne to modern france." A ...