johnson rare books & archives, ABAA (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 109 p. Preface by Robert Myers. Numerous illustrations, most in color and several folding. First edition, with a dual English-Spanish text. The companion to a 2007-8 exhibition showcasing the mixed media works of Brazilian artist Walter Goldfarb. Quarto. Original pictorial boards; issued without a dust jacket. A near fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 62301

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. "Els 4 Gats was a celebrated tavern that served as the main meeting place for avant-garde artists in turn-of-the-century Barcelona. It was the venue for the young Picasso's first one-man exhibition. This exhibition, comprising primarily portraits of his friends and acquaintances, launched Picasso's career. Picasso continued to frequent Els 4 Gats until the tavern closed in 1903. This text publishes Picasso's work from the Els 4 Gats exhibition, along with other paintings and drawings from this pivotal and unfamiliar period in his early artistic life." Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 72396

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ".synthesizes more than fifty years of study to present a comprehensive examination of Paul Gauguin's symbolism. Drawing on his profound grasp of the artistic and social contexts in which Gauguin worked, Dorra provides new, complex insights into and interpretations of Gauguin's multilayered symbolism." Small quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 70494

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. "A harlequin can be anything you wish, a chameleon who constantly changes its look and is never where we expect to find it. Picasso, who could contemporaneously adopt the styles of cubism, neoclassicism, surrealism, and expressionism and had many things in common with this legendary theater character. The book accompanies an exhibition in Rome of about two hundred artworks gathered from such prestigious museums and foundations as the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the Centre Pompidou and the Mus�e Picasso in Paris, the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Menil Colletion in Houston, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Philadelpia Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa." Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 72398

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Five scholars explore the background of the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle and largely recreate the incursion of Gauguin and his circle at Monsieur Volpini's Cafe des Arts. Quarto: 248 p. with 254 illustrations, 234 in color. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 74153

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ".explores the ways in which the human body - especially the female body - was visualized by artists in late nineteenth-century Paris. Focusing on the work of Degas, it deals with issues of sexuality, gender, and visual representation to illuminate the underlying meanings of the famed Impressionist's depictions of women in his series of bathers, dancers, and prostitutes." Illustrated. Small quarto: 256 p. Original red cloth binding. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 75427

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 352 p. Profusely illustrated in both color and black-and-white. First edition, issued simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. The first major museum retrospective of the work of this pioneering avant-garde artist. Original pictorial paper wrappers, with the CD housed in the rear pocket. Mild edgewear; else very good.

Seller Inventory # 60939

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 82 p. Four color plates, with 44 black and white illustrations. This catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum's retrospective exhibition records the work of the Italian-American painter and sculptor. Original cloth binding, with black titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 60534

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 68304

Wraps. Condition: Fine. "To admire the seductively brilliant works of Francois Boucher (1703-70), Denis Diderot decreed, was to be a stranger 'to the truth, to just ideas, and to the seriousness of art.' Making Up the Rococo challenges the long-standing critical disregard for Boucher's oeuvre and for rococo aesthetics in general, offering an engaging analysis of the cultural and artistic implications of makeup and of making up social, gender, and painterly identities." Tall octavo: x, 255 p. with numerous illustrations (some color). Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 76613

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. "This survey of Rembrandt's extraordinary achievement as a draftsman fills a gap in the otherwise enormous literature on Rembrandt. More than 150 drawings - mostly illustrated in color - made during every phase of his activity, are divided by subject into sixteen chapters: self-portraits, the life of women and children, religious subjects, landscapes, animals, nudes, and so forth." Quarto: [xii], 262 p. Original black paper-covered boards, with burgundy and blind-stamped titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 76622

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Illustrated throughout. N.p.: N.p., n.d. (circa 1965). First edition, #22 of 100 copies. Smith (1913-2004) was an American military historian, illustrator, and painter. A survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was an officer in the United States Marines during World War II. After leaving military service in 1947, Smith was employed as an architect for the Arabian-American Oil Company, and later served as a museum curator for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Quarto. Original pictorial green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Ink gift inscription and date (1967) to the front flyleaf; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 64784

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. ".assesses the place of Maori art in the work of one of Europe's most celebrated artists." Profusely illustrated, largely in color. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A very good copy.

Seller Inventory # 70271

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Inscribed by Frances Pohl on the title page. ".traces the political and artistic struggles Ben Shahn became embroiled in as he tried to remain a socially concerned artist during the early Cold War period." Octavo: x, 238 p. with a color frontispiece and 38 figures. Original tan cloth binding, with black titles. Light bumping to the bottom corners; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some mild sun fading along the spine.

Seller Inventory # 76610

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ".a celebration of the work of a generation of avant-garde artists at the turn of the nineteenth century in Paris who fought for artistic liberation against the strict codes of the Academy . This rich presentation of paintings, watercolors, drawings, rare zinc shadow-puppet silhouettes, Chat Noir cabaret programs, and key ephemera for Parisian theaters, circuses, cabarets, and caf�-concerts, are accompanied by essays by internationally known scholars, catalogue entries, artist biographies, a timeline of historical events and iconic works, a map of Paris, and a select bibliography." Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 73152

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. "In the last twenty-five years, a tremendous amount of research has been conducted on Titian, the dominant figure on the sixteenth-century Venetian art scene. Many of his paintings have been cleaned, allowing scholars and admirers to see the work as it was intended, and new scholarship and recent exhibitions have settled many questions of attribution, while raising a few new ones as well. Each of the over 250 paintings now attributed to Titian is reproduced here, accompanied by detailed commentary on the work, its commission and its history. Also included is an introductory essay covering the artist's life and career, as well as an exhaustive bibliography." Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 76244

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 208 p. Illustrated throughout, largely in color. Text in English and Italian. Brilliant monograph on New York artist Daniel Rothbart (b.1966), whose work explores the relationship between nature, urban postmodern identity, and metaphysics. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rothbart to his grandmother on the title page. Quarto. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. Inscribed by Artist.

Seller Inventory # 60625

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. ".a definitive investigation of Rosenquist's more than forty-year career in painting and sculpture, source collages, drawings, and graphics and multiples, from his earliest works to the present. Lavishly illustrated, the book features nearly three hundred of the artist's most significant works, including several that have never been published and a broad selection of source collages." Oblong quarto: xxv, 414 p. Original red cloth binding, with silver stamping. A near fine copy in a clean and bright dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 75757

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Signed by Eric Fischl on the half-title. An American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman, and educator, Fischl (b.1948) is known for his work depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and '80s. This catalogue presents an overview of his approach and motifs with around 45 paintings and the same number of drawings, all made between 1979 and 2001. Quarto: 136 p. with 93 illustrations, including 63 in color. Light rubbing to the corners and tips; else near fine in a clean and bright dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 73866

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. "Albert Oehlen's oeuvre, which covers a period of more than thirty years, is distinguished by its fundamental skepticism about the potential of painting as a medium. Instead of turning his back on painting, however, the artist uses the medium itself to articulate this skepticism. Throughout what he once termed his 'post-non-concrete representation' - from the crude, provocative attacks of the 1980s to the cool, computer-based images of the 1990s and the overpainted advertising and more abstract expressive style of recent years - Oehlen has always striven to blend the passion of the painter with a sense of critical distance. This publication features examples of the artist's work from all these periods of creativity, thus rendering visible the dialectic that pervades the entire body of work and that does away with the differentiation between the figurative and the abstract." Text in German and English. Quarto. Original printed boards, with a color reproduction of an Oehlen painting inset on the front panel. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 75858

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mary Woronov to Eric Idle on the title page. Octavo: 230 p. with textual photographs. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Small crease to the top corner of p.89-90. Some light edgewear, with a tiny smudge to the rear panel of the dust jacket; otherwise very good. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot. In a posting for his Eric Idle Online! blog concerning this book, Idle wrote: "She very kindly sent me her book. I liked it to start then as always the story of weird Andy and other people's drugs got me less than interested. She is great though. I love her painting as well.".

Seller Inventory # 76418

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 217 p. 187 illustrations, including 52 tipped-in plates in full color. Brilliant study of the life and work of the German-born American painter of figure subjects, often of an erotic or enigmatic character. Linder (1901-78) appeared in the second row on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. Signed by Lindner on the half-title. Oblong quarto. Original red cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Tiny spot to the bottom edge; otherwise fine in a clean and bright dust jacket. Signed by Artist.

Seller Inventory # 60505

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Inscribed by Millard Sheets on the half-title. Brilliant career retrospective of the highly influential artist, designer, and educator who made an indelible impression on the Southern California landscape. Foreword by Richard Armour. Oblong quarto: 155 p. with numerous color reproductions and other illustrations. Original burgundy cloth binding, with silver titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with a short tear to the spine head that has been mended with tape on the verso. Better than very good.

Seller Inventory # 74297

Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. "Ellsworth Kelly first conceived Line Form Color in 1951 as a series of studies, both drawings and collages. Later that year he applied to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for a grant to produce a book, "an alphabet of plastic pictorial elements," but the application was not successful. With this volume, Kelly has brought Line Form Color to completion. Its forty plates correspond to the original collages. This slipcased edition also includes an essay by Harry Cooper, curator of modern art at the Harvard University Art Museums." Oblong octavo, two volumes. Original printed paper wrappers. A fine set, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 76624

Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A lavishly production, this catalogue was published in conjunction with a 1998 gallery exhibition. Features candid photos of the iconic artist and tributes by Andy Warhol, Madonna, Maripol, Francesco Clemente, Rene Ricard, Klaus Kertess, Anthony Haden-Guest, A.R. Penck, Jeffrey Deitch, Bruno Bischofberger, Henry Geldzahler, and Ted Joans, among others. Text in English and French. Quarto: 112 p. with 69 illustrations (most color). Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 76695

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Signed by Norman Rockwell on a blank leaf tipped in after the front flyleaf. Memoirs of the prolific American painter and illustrator, best known for his iconic depictions of American culture created for The Saturday Evening Post. Among his most popular works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. Octavo: 436 p. with a color frontispiece and several illustrations (some color). Original black cloth binding, with mauve and gilt titles. Faint paperclip mark to the top edge of the front flyleaf. Light wear to the corners and tips, with just a hint of edgewear to the dust jacket; else very good or better.

Seller Inventory # 75216

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Signed by Al Held (1928-2005) on the half-title. Important monograph on the American abstract expressionist artist known for his colorful, hard-edge, geometric paintings. Oblong quarto: 192 p. with 97 color plates and 88 duotone illustrations, including 6 single and double gatefolds. Original black cloth binding, with white stamping. Previous owner's embossed stamp to the front flyleaf. The dust jacket is clean and bright.

Seller Inventory # 76460

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 54 plates, with textual figures. New York: David Nolan Gallery, 2008. First edition, with a poster from a 2013 exhibition of Artschwager's work laid in. Trained in science, Artschwager (1923-2013) gradually turned his attention to art. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art, and Minimalism. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Artschwager on the half-title. Quarto. Original blue cloth binding, with gray titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 65167

Wraps. First Edition. Scarce catalogue for the solo exhibition held November 28, 1986 to January 25, 1987 at the prestigious Kestner-Gesellschaft. Then only 25 years old, Basquiat (1960-88) became the youngest artist to ever showcase his work there. Text in German. With a small handbill for the exhibition laid in. Oblong octavo: 105 p. with color plates, portraits, and advertisments. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Some light edgewear; else near fine.

Seller Inventory # 76698

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Conceptualized by Thomas Demand (b.1964) himself, this book includes three components: a newspaper, a magazine and a book--each of them published on different paper. The newspaper presents the artist's older works; the magazine, printed on glossy paper, introduces new photo works in color and stills from the film Trick; the book portion documents the exhibition architecture. Signed by Demand on the title page. Octavo. Original printed gray paper-covered boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 65240