Renner james david lebrun (2 risultati)

First Edition ~1st Printing Hardcover SIGNED and inscribed on free front endpaper by both authors to Esther (Hovey), wife of composer Serge Hovey; a look at the writings and art of Rico Lebrun; near fine in near fine dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; very gentle rubbing to corners of jacket and boards else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket with invite laid in from the corresponding 2001 Lebrun exhibition.…

First Edition. Boston: David R. Godine, [2000]. 8vo, xi, 99, (1)pp. Original decorated cloth covered boards in gold, brown and yellow, lettered in brown to backstrip, original pictorial dust jacket lettered in orange and beige to top cover and backstrip; illustrated throughout by means of facsimiles within the text in black and white. Signed on the half title page by James Renner and David Lebrun. Fine. § First edition thus. A series of letters from Rico Lebrun, exploring the philosophy behind his artwork, alongside a number of black-and-white reproductions of his drawings and paintings. Born in Naples in 1900, Lebrun immigrated to the United States at 24 years of age, and had several successful ventures in Illinois and New York before moving to Southern California. His work often exhibits an interest in tragedy and mortality, and forms an interesting blend between more traditional figural work and abstraction. Signed.…