Edward Paul Giddings: Art and Architecture of Passion Hardcover Book

Van Gogh: His Life and Works in 500 Images Book by Michael Howard and Vincent van Gogh. "Contains a detailed exploration of Van Gogh's life, including his background, early career,...

In Pursuit of Quality: The Kimbell Art Museum. An Illustrated History of the Art and Architecture Hardcover book. March 1, 1988 by Kimbell Art Museum. Ft. Worth, Tx: Kimbell Art M...

The World of Bruegel, By Timothy Foote hardcover book Slipcase. The World of Bruegel: 1525-1569. The work of the Flemish artist discussed in a blend of biography and art criticism wi...

Impressions of Giverny Monet's World Charles Weckler hardcover book A short text describes impressionist Claude Monet's house and gardens at Giverny, a village 40 miles northwest of...

500 Years of Collecting in Antwerp, A Story of Passions. Rare copy. From the Personal Library of Herbert Kasper. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The book was Published by: Davidsfonds, Leuven, 2013. Accompanied by a personal note to Herbert Kasper from Thomas Leysen. Leysen was the Chairman of KBC Group between 2011-2020 and wrote the foreword to this book. The KBC, is a banking and insurance group with activities mainly in Belgium, Central Europe and Ireland. Herbert Kasper was an American fashion designer known as "Kasper." He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at The Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After WW II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was an avid art collector with a famous art collection, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings...

This publication which is housed in an orange clamshell box was published for an exhibition held in 2006 at the Gagosian Gallery. It contains two sewn booklets: Francis Bacon letters to Michel Leiris 1966-1989 and Francis Bacon Paintings...

A beautifully produced book by Franco Maria Ricci, one of a limited edition of 3,000 numbered copies, this being 388. 175 pages with tipped in color plates with additional drawings and sketches, the text is in English. Arcimboldo has become best known for his portraits of human heads made up from vegetables, plants, fruits, sea creatures and tree roots, which were greatly admired by his contemporaries and remain of great fascination to this day. each was carefully constructed and as can be seen with the main image, the Librarian...

George Edward Horton: The Launch of H.M.S. ‘Victoria’ from the Elswick shipyard of Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Co. Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1887, watercolour and pencil heig...