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A remarkable sketchbook with 25 original gouache paintings (there is no work number 14) by Beryl Barr-Sharrar, for Pierre Lecuire. Small oblong octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches). Cardboard covers, metal spiral binding. Some light bumping to edges, paintings in beautiful and bright condition, overall excellent. N.p. (Paris), 1968. This beautiful notebook is inscribed inside the front cover,… Read more about this item

Kampf. (IV) pp. introductory text and biographical material on the German artist who headed the School of Visual Arts in Berlin from 1915 to 1924, list of plates, and 20 fine etched plates showing scenes from Shakespeare plays. Large folio. 3/4 cloth and boards portfolio. Berlin (Wegweiser) n.d. (ca. 1925). Signed by the artist in pencil on colophon page.… Read more about this item

20 leaves, printed recto and verso, presenting text by Uta Johanna (a pseudonym for Egmont Hesse) with facing reproductions of boldly executed drawings, printed in offset lithography, by Hegewald. 8vo. Orig. printed wrpps., very sl. soiled. Dresden (Leitwolfverlag) 1989. One of only 100 copies. Signed in pencil by both Johanna and Hegewald on colophon. (Henkel: Kunstlerbucher... B 43.2). A… Read more about this item

5 volume study and presentation (in English) of the history of Ukiyoye painting and woodblock printmaking, defined in the preface as genre pictures and popular works depicting manners and customs of the time as opposed to classical works, including an altogether 211 pp. text distributed throughout the volumes, 156 fine text illustrations, mostly from line drawings, and 170 superb… Read more about this item

Portfolio with 8 original color woodcut prints (each approx. 15" x 22") by Vennekamp, in his own original Pop style with Surrealist undertones, showing erotic imagery in bold, densely colored and compositionally striking formats, including stylized abstractions of genitalia, playfully seductive vignettes, the integration of numbers and letters into the layout, segmented divisions within compositions, etc. Large oblong folio.… Read more about this item

Slevogt. 146 pp. popular German text of one of the 1001 Arabian Nights' tales, 56 original lithographic illus. by Slevogt. Folio. Modern cloth, cover illustration (frayed and soiled) mounted on front cover. Berlin (Bruno Cassirer) 1922. One of 360 copies, signed in pencil by the artist on the colophon page. The Artist and the Book, 289. Ex-library copy, internally… Read more about this item