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New in plastic wrapper, this book has never been opened. Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition and collection guide from 1990.
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German language mongraph on Klee published in his native Switzerland in 1945. With 24 b&w reproductions. A piece of the dust jacket front is missing. DJ also has smaller tears, a rear chip, a browned spine, taning and edge wear. Boards are in good shape other than tanning along front and rear borders. Book pages are also good except for some page chips and folds along lower right corners.
This volume includes a single unattached insert sheet from the publisher Verlag Benteli, listing its catalogue of art books with prices.

This is a folding portfolio made of navy board with gray title labels on the cover and spine. Includes a 24-page booklet and 72 loose b&w plates (complete) containing reproductions of Klee's drawings between 1921 and 1930. Published by Curt Valentin Gallery, with an essay by Will Grohmann. Printed in the summer of 1944 in an edition of 700 copies by the Meriden Gravure Company.
The deckle edge booklet features Grohmann's essay and a list of the 72 plates. The booklet contains light tanning on edges and one folded corner, some b&w plates also have light tanning at edges. The portfolio spine, front and rear cover edges are faded, also with scuffing and some marks. Otherwise, a remarkable collectible portfolio of work by Klee in great shape. "The drawings reproduced in this volume are examples of Klee's intuition, his creative inventiveness and his mastery of technique. They permit a glimpse into the workshop of an indefatigable and inehaustible artist," according to Grohmann.
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A remarkable treatise by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus founder, later chair of the Harvard Department of Architecture, and one of the pioneering titans of modern architecture in the 20th century, this slim paperback quarto is the text of a lecture Gropius gave in February 23, 1945 in Chicago under the auspices of the Institute of Design there (founded by artist László Moholy-Nagy in 1937 as the "New Bauhaus" in America). Moholy-Nagy edited the monograph and wrote the introduction, where he paid tribute to Gropius' committment to the "indivisiblity of social responsibility and structural soundness" in his call for an architecture for low-cost housing projects, factories and schools, an architecture for workers not the elite, a revolutionary concept then.
62 pages, with many B&W illustrations, drawings and plans. Very good- copy with soiled covers, rubbing along the spine, previous owner's name and a small crease on upper right front cover, small crease on upper left rear cover. Inside, front cover is… Read More

1924 2nd printing of this volume. Cover is stained with chips and tears in the spine. Inside pages are clean and in good shape. See images for better idea of condition.
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Hardbound catalogue of exhibition presented by The Asia Society in New York, in cooperation with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini of Venice.
28-page preface section containing List of Lenders, Bibliography, Foreword and Introduction, followed by 139 page Catalogue section, including 9 color plates, followed by Plates section containing 125 b&w plates. Also includes 2-page errata insert page.
VG clean binding and pages, no marks, with some edge rubbing, foxing and yellowing. G dust jacket with visible wear, three tears on tip edge.

Large format study of the etchings of Canaletto, with 30 reproductions of his etchings. Critical studies are included on Canaletto's artistic development and technique, as well as his etchings in context with the graphic art of the time. Several tables and numerous details of larger works are contained in the text. 45 pages plus 18 pages of reproductions (including one large fold-out page). 16.75 by 22.5 inches hardbound.
Number 588 of a French edition of 1,000. Stains/rubbing on boards (one bumped corner on rear board), pages are yellowed with age but clean. See images for a better idea of condition.
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