French sculptor (59 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated with photographs. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 24 x 29 cms. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 4 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: The Connoisseur; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 56 pages, with illustrations and photographs. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 21 x 31.5 cms. Category: Architectural Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Publisher's original brown and red card wrap covers [soft back] which have been bound up by an amateur into half brown cloth boards with yellow paper sides and end papers, uncut fore and lower page edges. 8vo. 9'' x 6½''. Contains [xvi] 119 printed pages of French text with 32 full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Slight age darkening to the page edges, home made title to the cloth spine has worn away. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [French].…

Condizione: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains full-page colour plates, French text. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [French].

No Binding. Engraving, from Walpole's "Anecdotes".

Condizione: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 10'' x 7¼''. Contains 28 pp with 12 monochrome plates. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].

Rochefort's letter: 1p., 12mo. Thirteen lines of text. In fair condition, aged and worn. Following an 'aimable visite' he thanks him for 'le plus charmant article', with reference to 'Mr. Dufaux' (Rochefort's future son-in-law) and 'son tableau ' and 'son buste'. After more graceful thanks and a request he ends, 'Mille poignés de main avec la moitié pour Neville'. The copy of 'La Laterne d'Arlequin' (not to be confused with Rochefort's 'La Lanterne') is 16pp., 12mo, in its original orange printed wraps. In good condition, lightly aged. Profusely illustrated collection of satirical articles and poems, including a poem entitled 'La rentrée des Chambres | A un Député.'.…

Condizione: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 8¼'' x 8¼''. Contains 108 pp with plates in colour and monochrome throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Tate Gallery Exhibition Catalogue ticket laid-in. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].…

Condizione: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xvi] 272 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Spine very slightly sun faded and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. From the private library of Captain Roderic Miles Doughty Thesiger [Brother of travel writer Wilfred Patrick Thesiger 1910-2003] and SIGNED to the front free end paper 'Roderic M. D. Thesiger 1937.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [French].…

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First edition. A smart copy of the first edition of the exhibition catalogue for the major exhibition "Gauguin: Maker of Myth", organized at Tate Modern, profusely illustrated in colour. In the publisher's original stiff pictorial paper wraps.This volume is a first edition.Illustrated 155 reproductions of Gauguin's work and 74 figures, reproduced in colour, many of which are full-page. Collated, complete.This book serves as the exhibition catalogue for the major touring exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth, organized at Tate Modern, London from 30â September 2010 to 16â January 2011, followed by a showing at the National Gallery of Art, Washington,from 27â February to 5â June 2011. This copy explores how Gauguin constructed his persona and legend through his art, with scholarly essays and critical commentary by Belinda Thomson and other leading specialists. In the publisher's original stiff pictorial paper wraps. Externally, lovely, with only the slightest rubbing to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Fine. French painter and sculptor (illustratore). book.…

Condizione: Fine. Bloomington, Indiana, April 14, 1965., 1965. Fine. - Over 30 words penned on his 10-3/4 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide personal stationery. The artist Robert Laurent thanks "Miss Levy" for sending him a couple of copies of the May issue of American Artist magazine and that "I would like forty additional copies - and am enclosing my check-" Signed "Robert Laurent". Folded for mailing, else fine. The May 1965 issue of American Artist magazine included Norman Kent's article titled "Robert Laurent, A Master Carver" with a cover illustration. The French-American modernist figurative sculptor and printmaker was also a teacher. He was part of the 1946 Whitney exhibition :Pioneers of Modern Art". His work was inspired by African carving and European avant-garde art. The New York Times wrote that he "figured in the development of an American sculptural art that balanced nature and abstraction." He is well-known for his public sculptures the "Goose Girl" at New York City's Radio Music Hall and "Spanning the Continent" in Philadelphia's Fairmont Park.…

8vo. 4 pp. on bifolium. In French. To an art historian named Hartmann, possibly Paul Hartmann, concerning the price of photographs of Lagae's work for publication in a journal on Christian art, and announcing to send an issue of the journal "L'Art Flamand" with a short biography of Lagae: "Vous voudrez bien m'excuser si je n'ai pas répondu plus tôt à votre toute aimable lettre du mois passé. Je - fais un grand travail décoratif en ce moment, travail très pressé, qui m'a pris tous mes instants ; il est à sa fin maintenant et j'en profite pour mettre mes correspondances à jour. Je vous donnerais très volontiers une collection de mes uvres pour la reproduction de votre revue 'L'art Chrétien' mais je suis trop sollicité pour les faire cadeau. Les photographes qui possèdent les clichés de mes uvres les vendent à raison de 5fr par épreuve [.]. Parmi les portraits se trouve celui du Cardinal archevêque de Malines, dont j'ai fait un buste qui a été très remarqué en Belgique. Je vous enverrai par le même courrier un exemplaire de la revue Belge 'L'Art Flamand'. Vous y trouverez ma biographie faite par le poète Goffin [.]". - On mourning paper. With deep tears to the folds, partly affecting the text (but without loss).…

TRACES D ENVOLS Sculptures de Marc Vellay 2001-2002 (Ausstellungskatalog) Librairie Galerie Mouvements, 1. Auflage 2002, ERSTAUSGABE, 27 SS. illustriertes Pb. (kl. 8 to) mit schönen Farbreproduktionen seiner Skulpturen, gut erhalten - von Marc Vellay im Innendeckel mit E.ORIGINAL-ZEICHNUNG, eigenhändiger Widmung, Empfehlung, Jahr, Unterschrift signiert BEILAGE : seine persönliche Visitenkarte. …

°°° RARE AND BIBLIOPHILLY BOUND EXTENSIVE EPITAPH OF THE CELEBRATED ARTIST: Publisher's titled vellum-tinted papercover, bound in a possibly slightly later gilt-titled night-blue 3/4-morocco binding with black-and-blue marbled panels, gilt topedge green marker-ribbon and colourful marbled endpapers, 3 additional blank largepaper-sheets with watermark 'Hallines Dambricourt Frères' before and after the publ. papercover; 4to.(28 x 19 cm). - *) ''When it came time to auction off everything that made up the studio of our dear and missed Diaz, his studies which he showed us with such joy and happiness, the paintings and drawings of his friends and those of the old masters whom he most loved, these works of art for which he had such a great passion, it seemed to us that we would be grateful to reproduce, in a short summary, the opinions and judgments of our most authoritative critics, opinions and judgments formulated at different times in this very full artistic career. We have therefore borrowed from Th. Silvestre his biography; from Thoré, Th. Gautier, MM. Ed. About and J. Claretie their appreciations on the works exhibited at the various Salons, or on the general work of the painter; then from MM. Albert Wolff, Émile Bergerat, E. Véron, Ph. Burty, E. Gonzalès, Privat, their farewells to the artist whom we have just lost. . .''(translated Introduction, followed by a detailed chronological list of Diaz' works exhibited ''. . . aux divers Salons de 1831 à 1850.''). - Corners of the binding slightly rubbed, frontpanel with superficial horizontal scratch, some of the additional blank endpapers slightly foxy. A BEAUTIFUL COPY; inner frontpanel with engraved 19th-century pictorial exlibris 'Alexis Martin'((1834-1904, Literate and Collector, Author of 'Le Bibliophile amoureux', 1866), signed 'Aglaüs Bouvenne'(1829-1903, Engraver, also for Victor Hugo). --- DIAZ WAS BORN IN BORDEAUX to Spanish parents, became an orphan at the age of ten and lost one of his legs after his foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon-Wood, near Sèvres where he started his artistic career at the age of fifteen in the Porcelain-Studios. He also spent much time at Barbizon, near the Fontainebleau Forest, where he painted some of his most famous works. One of his teachers and friends in Paris was Francois Souchon and he admired the painter Théodore Rousseau. Diaz exhibited at many 'Paris Salons' and the World Expo of 1855, and became 'Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur' in 1851; Auguste Renoir once said ''My hero was Diaz.''. Diaz' paintings and drawings are held by the Louvre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and many other famous institutions. - THE CONTENT IN DETAIL: (to be continued. . . --- **) A Photoglyptie (or 'Woodburytype') is a photomechanical printing process to create high quality continuous-tone images with surfaces that show a slight relief-effect, a mold-produced copy of an original photographic negative. It had been invented by the pioneering English photographer Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885), one of the earliest photographers in Australia and the Dutch East Indies and was in use during the final third of the 19th century, most commonly for illustrating fine books with photographic portraits. …

8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. To Charles Ephrussi. Fine letter to his friend and critic Charles Ephrussi, director of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, in which Degas discusses a misunderstanding with the art journal L'Art, thanks Ephrussi for his mediation, and alludes to his failing eyesight:"I did not think that L'Art expected an answer. Through your kind intervention, it had made its conditions and intentions known. It is you I had to thank, not them. I will nonetheless go and speak with him one day. Thank you for the armchair. I will go, though I am very tired with my damned eyes. I must press my things again. Many thanks."Degas also explains that the publication schedule had been delayed because printer André Salmon was occupied with the San Donato catalogue the great sale of Anatole Demidoff's collection. A fascinating letter touching on Degas's relations with Ephrussi and the Parisian art press, written in his later years, when eye strain increasingly hampered his work.…

8vo. 2 pp. To a friend, probably Lucien Vogel (1886-1954), editor of the journal "Feuillets d'art", about the illustrations for a publication about his work, discussing coloured and uncoloured plates, his intention to have verse passages printed in deep red, as agreed with the publisher F. Sant'Andréa, and his wish for full-page plates, complaining that an earlier reproduction of one of his Beethoven portraits was too small: "Je voudrais connaître quels seront les planches en couleur du 3e fascicule et celles du 4e afin de pouvoir harmoniser avec elles, les autres planches en bistre ou en noir à choisir. Je dis en bistre au cas où je pourrais en établir 4 pour ce ton, en guise du ton noir. J'en ai parlé avec Sant Andréa qui veut bien par 4 à la fois. Il est d'accord aussi qu'on imprime les pièces de vers en rouge sombre antique. Rouge presque noir. Non pas rouge clair! [.] Il faudrait donner un des pastels des jeunes filles. Pour sa reproduction en couleurs grand hors texte. Je dis grand car on a fait la reproduction du Beethoven peinture trop petite. Il faudra qu'on fasse tous les hors textes couleurs tenant bien toute la page [.]". - Trimmed along the upper margin; a small tear to the left margin. …

Pas de couverture. Condizione: Bon. Authentic signed card. + Photo 15x15 cm (recent print). Size : 8x13 cm. Condition : please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

1p, 8vo. In good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Folded once. The female recipient is not named. The letter begins: 'Chère Mademoiselle, | J'ai recu votre aimable lettre, et, demain Lundi, j'aurai le plaisir de rendre visite à vos amis Mr. & Mme. Palmer, au "Grand Hotel" à 6 heures du soir.' If the recipient could also be present at that time Raffaëlli would be 'fort heureux de vous y rencontrer et de vous remercier de vive voix de l'amabilité que vous voulez bien mettre à defendre mes oeuvres aupres des gens raffinés de votre belle Patrie'. Although Raffaëlli was a realist painter, Degas invited him to participate in the Impressionist exhibitions of 1880 and 1881, and this bitterly divided the group, with Monet choosing not to exhibit.…

Pas de couverture. Condizione: Assez bon. Autograph small card signed (on both sides). + Photo 20x15 cm (recent print). Size : 9.5x5.5 cm. Condition : please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

1p., 4to. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Pequignot's spelling is shaky. The document reads: 'Le Sossignez en reconais avoir recu du Citoyen Penkoucke la Some de deux mile franc a Compte dune Copie que je lui fais dune joueuse dosselets | Pequignot | Sculpteur'. He is referring apparently to an engraving of his sculpture "La Joueuse d'Osselets" ["jacks"], or some form or other. The recipient was a member of the notable firm of French printers and publishers, probably Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1736-1798).…

Visiting card format. 6 lines. New Year wishes addressed to his "cher maître" - With mourning border.

Pas de couverture. Condizione: Bon. Nice photo postcard signed in May 1959. Size : 14x8.5 cm. Condition : please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

8vo. 1 page on bifolium. To an unidentified recipient: "Nous étions bien sûrs, l'autre soir, qu'une haute faveur nom était anordée, puisque le président du Conseili nous l'affirmait, cependant nous avons été heureux de le voir affirmée à l'Officiel [de la la Légion d'Honneur] [.]".

1p., 16mo. In good condition. He begins by thanking him for his concern over his health: 'je vais beaucoup mieux et avec des ménagements j'espere que cela n'auras pas de suite'. In the next paragraph he refers to the French architect Julien-David Le Roy, recently deceased: 'je savais le résultat de la tentative faites pour le respectable David le Roi il faut ce consoler avec les bonnes âmes de toute celle que l'on rencontre qui sont seche et aride'. A final paragraph describes his intentions towards 'souscripteurs'. In a postscript he presents his respects to 'Mme Vaudoyer'.…

2pp., 8vo. In good condition, on a leaf of lightly-aged paper. With circular red stamp of the autograph collector P. Jul. Fontaine. Begins: 'Claude Dejoux sculpteur de L'académie demeure actuellement a paris rue de L'université, palais de Bourbon.' The document, which carries the signature of a witness, consists of an extract, presumably for the tax authorities, beginning 'Certificate de La Section Des Invalides en date du 19. 8bre. 1792 L'an 1er. de La Republique'.…

1p., 8vo. In good condition. The ancient Seminary of St Peter and St Lewis in Paris (now demolished) was being used as barracks at the time Mouchy was writing, having been suppressed the year before. The page begins: 'Au Cy devant Seminaire de St. Louis rue d'Enfer dans L'Eglise sont a distraire de la vente primo tous ce qui Compose le maitre autel en marbre bleux et blanc, et le grand Tableaux [sic] representant St. Pierre guerissant un paralitique, [sic] et autres Secondo les chapelles de cote aussy [sic] de même Couleur avec leurs tableaux bordures dorés, dont l'un est un St. Louis, et L'autre charles boromée.' The rest of the document makes a request regarding works in the sacristy which he has not seen.…

12mo. 2 pp. With autograph envelope. For his student René Schüzenberger, announcing a new student in the atélier and asking to relay the news to his fellow students: "Mr Biaari [!] de qui j'ai vu les études ne pensait pas entrer demain? En ce cas faites passer ces mots a vos confrères de l'atelier". On the reverse: "Prière de reçevoir Mr Biarri [!] que je présente à mon atelier". The new student referred to in the note may be the Canadian painter, cartoonist, and animator Raoul Barré. - Jean-Paul Laurens was one of the last French academic painters. He trained many young artists in his studio and as a teacher at the Académie Julian. René Schützenberger (1860-1916) was a successful Post-Impressionist painter close to the Les Nabis group. - Well preserved. …

Oblong 8vo (postcard). 1 page. Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau. - Starting out as a painter, Bartholomé turned towards sculpture in 1887 when he created a stirring figure for his wife's grave, before creating his masterpiece, the cenotaph at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, on which he worked from 1889 to 1899. - Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.…

Calling card format. 1 page. To a friend expressing his thanks: "Mes sincères remerciements [.]". - Slightly spotty.