introduction maurice collis (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Qto.,There are 24 colour plates, and 24 monochrome illustrations. The text, of which there is little, is in English, French and German. A Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 324 pp. Original gray cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Light foxing to edges of covers; spine ends sunned. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped. Front inner hinge cracked. Light toning to blank endpapers; previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear and several short tears to edges. Spine darkened w/ approx. 1" chip at bottom of spine. Illust. w/ 48 plates in colour and 120 illustrations in b/w.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Nicholas Egon (illustratore). 1st Edition. First Edition ( 'First Published 1952 '). Fairly rare book. Sold inexpensively due to cover soiling. See photos. Speck-sized spot of rub-through on front bottom corner, otherwise very good corners, very good edges, rubbing at spine ends, toning on spine, gilt lettering a little dulled by toning, quite legible. Binding is decent. Covers are tight. A little soiling on front end paper, tiny bit on half-title. Otherwise clean pages except for blue discoloration off bottom edge of one page, not reaching print or drawing. No markings or attachments or writing anywhere.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. This is a good copy in a worn jacket that is separated along the folds and with a big piece missing. Still it could be non existent and it has helped save the book from some wear. This copy from the collection of Doris Meltzer, gallery owner, painter, educator and author. With her ownership and stamp and with an inscription from Alva to her on the front flyleaf. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

4to. 19[1]pp, [4]pp index, 42 plates (3 colour) each with accompanying text leaf. Original fawn buckram lettered in black, te coloured. Very light spotting to eps; margins very lightly age-browned. * Alva's signed presentation inscription to ht.

Hardcovers. Condizione: Very Good. Illustrated with 20 tipped in colour plates. Inscribed and dated by the artist in 1955. Very crisp and clean copy. Born in Berlin in 1901, Alva moved to Galicia, and began to paint in Paris in 1928, prodcing some great lyrical abstracts. Alva also spent a 20 year period living in Britain, before returning to Paris in 1955. Bound in brown cloth. Size: Qto. Signed by the Artist. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Limited Edition. RARE SIGNED LIMITED DE LUXE EDITION - NO 49 OF ONLY 100 SUCH COPIES IN FULL GREEN GILT LEATHER : Signed by the Artist Nicholas Egon and published by special arrangement with Messrs. Putnam & Co Ltd, London. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Lovely binding, ruled in gilt, with 5 compartments to the spine, and with gilt work within each compartment. Pastedowns and endpapers in decorative design. A clean tightly bound example, pages very good indeed, alongside the "Forty-eight portraits reproduced by collotypes" p. [10], 48 leaves of ill. Scarce. Note about the Artist :b. Czechoslovakia. Artist, largely self-taught (also through the study of the old master drawings and prints in the British Museum, Ashmolean and other museums). Arrived in London aged 17. In 1940 commissioned official war artist to the Czech army. In 1944 posted in British army to Basra. 1946 returned to London and worked in Erno Goldfinger's architectural office. 1946-50 taught at Sir John Cass College and gave weekly lectures at the National Gallery. 1947 elected (the youngest) Fellow of Royal Society of Art. Early works included abstracts inspired by science. He was involved with British Surrealists (Roland Penrose, Jack Brunius, E.L.T. Mesens) and exhibited at the Zwemmer Gallery alongside the likes of John Tunnard, Conroy Maddox, Ithel Colqhoun, Eileen Agar, Matta and Henry Moore. Since 1949, when he went to Greece where he was commissioned to paint a war memorial and subsequently to make portraits of the Greek royal family, he has been largely active as a society portraitist and as a landscape painter. Has depicted many heads of state, not least in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Morocco (the Jordanians often used works by him as gifts of state). Other sitters include W. Somerset Maugham, L.S. Lowry, Arturo Toscanini and Helen Mirren (the latter in 1966). Since 1978 has focussed on painting the Greek landscape. With his wife, Matti Xyla, benefactor of the Greek and Roman Department (members of the "Caryatid" supporters group). Founder and benefactor of the annual Runciman Lectures at King's College, London, in honour of his close friend, the Byzantinist Sir Steven Runciman (1903-2000). { British Museum }. Signed by Illustrator(s).