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The Helga Pictures
by Wyeth, Andrew; Wilmerding, John
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0810917882
- ISBN 13
- 9780810917880
- Seller
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; light age-toning on the textblock edges and an unused bookplate. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. Essay by Leonard E. B. Andrews. Comments by Andrew Wyeth. Chronology of exhibtions. Selected Bibliography. Index. 208 pp. First Edition, First Printing.. For 15 years, America's most popular living artist worked in secret with neighbor Helga Testorf as model.
The result some 240 pencil sketches, watercolors, drybrush, and temperas, concerned with Helga in all aspects, nude and clothed are here shown in 100 high-quality color plates and 160 black and white illustrations. Works in progress reveal the artist's methods; finished works, an obsession with his model as awesome as his technique.
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; light age-toning on the textblock edges and an unused bookplate. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. Essay by Leonard E. B. Andrews. Comments by Andrew Wyeth. Chronology of exhibtions. Selected Bibliography. Index. 208 pp. First Edition, First Printing.. For 15 years, America's most popular living artist worked in secret with neighbor Helga Testorf as model.
The result some 240 pencil sketches, watercolors, drybrush, and temperas, concerned with Helga in all aspects, nude and clothed are here shown in 100 high-quality color plates and 160 black and white illustrations. Works in progress reveal the artist's methods; finished works, an obsession with his model as awesome as his technique.
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- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014210
- Title
- The Helga Pictures
- Author
- Wyeth, Andrew; Wilmerding, John
- Format/Binding
- Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0810917882
- ISBN 13
- 9780810917880
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Artists, Pennsylvania Art, 20th Century, Realism, Painting, Figure Painting, Anatomy, Brandywine, Illustration, Representational
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