Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings Complete Set of 4 1886 by John Denison & Charles Champlin - 1886-1887

CIrca 1930 / 1935, 1932. Original Oil Painting . No Binding. Near Fine. 9" x 12. Interesting Oil Portrait In Color, On Weber Artist Canvas Board, No. 11 Roman Drill Surface, 18" X 24", Apparently Cut To This Size, Manufactured By F. Weber Co. Philadelphia, All According To The Yellow Label Mounted On The Very Worn Black Backing. An Attractive Portrait, Apparently Of Geirge Orwel Circa 1932L, Leaning On His Left Hand And Staring Somewhat Belligerently But Resignedly At Viewer, Left Hand Has Not Been Finished. This Appears To Be A Portrait Of A Younger Orwell Than Usually Seen, Circa Early 1930'S, An Intense Young Man With A Small Mustache, Eyebrows Thinner And Higher Than Usually Seen, But With His Distinctive Right Ear Present. The Portrait Is Not Clearly Orwell In The 1920'S Or 1940'S, But Compares Favorably With The Few Early 1930'S Photographs Of Him That We Have Seen. Unmarked As To Subject, Not Clearly Identified As Orwell. Provenance Murky; From A California… Read More

Dust jacket has wear along the edges with small tears. There is a piece of tape on the spine along with reinforcement tape inside of dust jacket. Bottem edge of HC is bent. Dust jacket has some scratches and some creasing. Reinforcement binding was added inside front end page and next page. Dust jacket and pages of book have some discoloration from age. Delivery confirmation is provided where available. BOOK IS COMPLETE WITH ALL 44 ILLUSTRATIONS.

Los Angeles: Pasquale G Napolitano / Lynton Kistler / Merle Armitage, 1936. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. Original Lithograph, Signed By The Artist Pasquale G Napolitano Below The Image. A Fine Impression With Good Variation In Intensity. The Same Lithographic Plate, With Image Trimmed At Top And Bottom, Was Used For The Frontispiece To The Limited Edition Book Edited By Merle Armitage, "21 Statements" , 1936, The First Book Printing Of Two Magazine Articles By Picasso. This Example Of The Full, Untrimmed Lithograph Is From Napolitano's Own Collection. Napolitano Studied At Chouinard And Otis To 1925, Worked With Herman Sachs And Later On His Own Doing Architectural Murals (Los Angeles City Hall, The Miami Beach Biltmore, And Many Prominent Buildings And Estates), Studied Ceramics In Ny And Painting In Germany, And After Returning To Los Angeles In 1933 Began Working In All Media, Including Many Murals For The Wpa, Where He Met Armitage, Who Published A Book About Him In 1935.

David C. Preyer

The Art of Netherlands Galleries

Condition: Good. The Art Of the Netherlands Galleries Pages are clean and bright , Covers are nice with gilt on back and front cover. Covers however were loose, and have been glued. To arrest further damage. Description: The Art Of the Netherlands Galleries highlights the painters of the Dutch School to modern painters. Pages are clean and bright Published: 1908 1st Ed. Author: David C. Preyer Condition:The Art Of the Netherlands Galleries Pages are clean and bright , Covers are nice with gilt on back and front cover. DK

New York: Shorewood Publishers 1962. (Folio in slipcase) Near fine, no dust jacket. In very good slipcases with some wear to the corners and openings. 1107 illustrations, mostly in color, glossary, bibliography. Vol. 1 Italian, Thirteenth Through Nineteenth Century. Vol. 2 German, Flemish and Dutch Thirteenth Through Nineteenth Century. Vol. 3 French, Thirteenth Century to 1919. Vol. 4 Oriental, Spanish, English, American and Contemporary. (Art, Drawing).

CIrca 1930 / 1935, 1932. Original Oil Painting . No Binding. Near Fine. 9" x 12. Interesting Oil Portrait In Color, On Weber Artist Canvas Board, No. 11 Roman Drill Surface, 18" X 24", Apparently Cut To This Size, Manufactured By F. Weber Co. Philadelphia, All According To The Yellow Label Mounted On The Very Worn Black Backing. An Attractive Portrait, Apparently Of Geirge Orwel Circa 1932L, Leaning On His Left Hand And Staring Somewhat Belligerently But Resignedly At Viewer, Left Hand Has Not Been Finished. This Appears To Be A Portrait Of A Younger Orwell Than Usually Seen, Circa Early 1930'S, An Intense Young Man With A Small Mustache, Eyebrows Thinner And Higher Than Usually Seen, But With His Distinctive Right Ear Present. The Portrait Is Not Clearly Orwell In The 1920'S Or 1940'S, But Compares Favorably With The Few Early 1930'S Photographs Of Him That We Have Seen. Unmarked As To Subject, Not Clearly Identified As Orwell. Provenance Murky; From A California… Read More

Dust jacket has wear along the edges with small tears. There is a piece of tape on the spine along with reinforcement tape inside of dust jacket. Bottem edge of HC is bent. Dust jacket has some scratches and some creasing. Reinforcement binding was added inside front end page and next page. Dust jacket and pages of book have some discoloration from age. Delivery confirmation is provided where available. BOOK IS COMPLETE WITH ALL 44 ILLUSTRATIONS.

Los Angeles: Pasquale G Napolitano / Lynton Kistler / Merle Armitage, 1936. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. Original Lithograph, Signed By The Artist Pasquale G Napolitano Below The Image. A Fine Impression With Good Variation In Intensity. The Same Lithographic Plate, With Image Trimmed At Top And Bottom, Was Used For The Frontispiece To The Limited Edition Book Edited By Merle Armitage, "21 Statements" , 1936, The First Book Printing Of Two Magazine Articles By Picasso. This Example Of The Full, Untrimmed Lithograph Is From Napolitano's Own Collection. Napolitano Studied At Chouinard And Otis To 1925, Worked With Herman Sachs And Later On His Own Doing Architectural Murals (Los Angeles City Hall, The Miami Beach Biltmore, And Many Prominent Buildings And Estates), Studied Ceramics In Ny And Painting In Germany, And After Returning To Los Angeles In 1933 Began Working In All Media, Including Many Murals For The Wpa, Where He Met Armitage, Who Published A Book About Him In 1935.

David C. Preyer

The Art of Netherlands Galleries

Condition: Good. The Art Of the Netherlands Galleries Pages are clean and bright , Covers are nice with gilt on back and front cover. Covers however were loose, and have been glued. To arrest further damage. Description: The Art Of the Netherlands Galleries highlights the painters of the Dutch School to modern painters. Pages are clean and bright Published: 1908 1st Ed. Author: David C. Preyer Condition:The Art Of the Netherlands Galleries Pages are clean and bright , Covers are nice with gilt on back and front cover. DK

New York: Shorewood Publishers 1962. (Folio in slipcase) Near fine, no dust jacket. In very good slipcases with some wear to the corners and openings. 1107 illustrations, mostly in color, glossary, bibliography. Vol. 1 Italian, Thirteenth Through Nineteenth Century. Vol. 2 German, Flemish and Dutch Thirteenth Through Nineteenth Century. Vol. 3 French, Thirteenth Century to 1919. Vol. 4 Oriental, Spanish, English, American and Contemporary. (Art, Drawing).