Surrealist Art, The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection, First Edition Book

The Art of Patronage, The Daywood Collection. Charleston: Huntington Museum of Art, 2017. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 122 pp. A catalogue of works from The Daywood Collection at the Huntington Museum of Art. The collection includes oils by: Childe Hassam, landscape and figurative oils...

The White House, It's Historic Furnishings & First Families by Betty C. Monkman. New York: Abbeville Press, 2000. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 320 pp. A beautiful coffee table book about The White House. It showcases the historic furniture and decorative accessories, including silver, glass, porcelain, and textiles, along with purchasing habits of the first families. The book tells how Theodore Roosevelt swept away all traces of the 19th century interiors including a Tiffany glass screen that spanned the entrance hall. It reveals documents about James Monroe ordering precious objects from France in 1817, and why presidents after this were encouraged to restrict their purchases to American products...

Visual Culture edited by Chris Jenks. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. First edition softcover. 269 pp. An exploration of the 'visual' character of contemporary culture in a ser...

The House and Garden Book of Classic Rooms by Robert Harling, Leonie Highton, and John Bridges. Vendome Press, NY, 1990. First Edition hard...

Luminist Horizons: The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam by Katherine Manthorne, Mark Mitchell. National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, 2006. Stated 1st stated...

The Mind and Art of Giovanni Piranesi by John Wilton-Ely. London: Thames and Hudson, 1988. Stated first edition paperback. 155 pp. A portfolio of the artwork and history of artist Gi...

Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In t...

Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In t...

Leonora Carrington (Lancashire, England, April 6, 1917 – Mexico City, May 25, 2011) was an English surrealist painter and writer naturalized Mexican. In the...

Kiki et Montparnasse 1900-1930 (Kiki and Montparnasse 1900-1930), a French book by Billy Kluver and Julie Martin. Kiki Montparnasse or the ennobled bohemian. The surprising story te...

'Miró y la Imaginación' book of Joan Miró. Published by Ediciones Omega in Barcelona (Spain). Edition of 1949 with six photography’s in color and 60 in black and white. In goo...

A beautiful lithographic print by Argentinian-born Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author Leonor Fini titled "Femme Avec Cheveux Rouge". Leonor Fini was a...

A beautiful lithographic print by Argentinian-born Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author Leonor Fini titled "Deux Femmes". Leonor Fini was arguably the m...

Paris 1919 - 1929 Art, Vie et Culture (art, life, and culture), French book by Vincent Bouvet et Gérad Durozoi, 2009. Paris was an international melting pot of arts and letters during the inter-war period. Between the parade of the allies in 1919 and the one of the Germans in 1940 on the same Champs-Elysées, Paris will experience a fruitful cultural and intellectual period for 20 years, open to the avant-garde and faithful to the best of tradition. During this inter-war period, France still appeared as great economic, military, and colonial power. The fame of French culture is centralized in Paris, from which ideas and fashions radiate. Artists and creators come from all continents to the City of Light to draw their inspiration and gain recognition in the eyes of the world. During the "Roaring Twenties" that followed the euphoria of victory, Paris shone with a thousand lights. The "Lost Generation," the one of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, is the most important of the foreign colonies that animate the nights of Paris who discovers jazz. But the bohemian lifestyle of Montparnasse attracts painters and sculptors from the four corners of the globe, such as Chagall, Giacometti, Miro, and Calder, to the studios, cafés, and bars, such as La Coupole. A chameleon genius, Picasso simultaneously experimented with all the paths, including those of nascent surrealism. Matisse, Léger open academies. The School of Paris brought together painters as varied as Soutine, Derain, Van Dongen, and Foujita. Abstract art sets up its world headquarters in the city, with the stay of Mondrian, the arrival of Kandinsky, and the creation of movements such as Abstraction-Creation. Haute couture confirmed its supremacy with the houses of Chanel, Vionnet, Lanvin, and Schiaparelli. The craftsmen of luxury, like Ruhlmann, captivate their clients with the luxury of their creations known as "Art Deco." Intellectual life is in full swing, punctuated by quarrels between Dada and Surrealist groups, ideological struggles, differences between literary schools, and opposition between theatrical genres. Gide and Valery appear as tutelary and universal figures, while the generation of Mauriac and Malraux, among others, refine novels and essays distributed throughout the world. Then the crisis of 1929, the coming to power of authoritarian regimes, darkened the climate of the whole of Europe. If Paris remains an active cultural and intellectual center, it loses its carelessness. Artistic experimentation, architecture, in particular, experienced a return to order or reflected growing insecurity and the eruption of violence, such as Guernica (1937) by Picasso. Political instability and the emergence of the Popular Front resulted in riots, demonstrations, and parades which regularly rocked the city. Monuments built on the occasion of universal exhibitions, such as the Palais de Chaillot in 1937, inscribe their monumentality in the urban fabric...

Miro (Famous Artists) Explores Miro's life and development as an artist, his entry into surrealism, and his versatility in abstract expression. Inclu...

Miro's Studio, Published by Mayoral, 2016, 1st edition A beautifully illustrated book exploring Miro's lifelong relationship with his studios. Starting with his arrival in Paris i...

The Collins Big Book of Art, from Cave Art to Pop Art, General Editor David G. Wilkins. Stated first edition, published in 2005 by Collins Design. Hardcove...

To study Gio Ponti’s prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. His creations expand intuitively with the Italian grandeur ...

Vintage, 1955, first edition, Picasso, S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris, Boeck and Sabartes, Vintage, Pablo Picasso, First Edition, 1955. Pablo Picasso, Library or Coffee Table Book,. Description:...

Patrick Hamilton -The Slaves of Solitude Published by Constable, London 1947. First edition. Hamilton, cult author of Hangover Square and denizen of seedy pre-war literary Lond...

Vintage, 1955, first edition, Picasso, S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris, Boeck and Sabartes, Vintage, Picasso, First Edition, 1955. Description: Pablo Picasso. Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartes. Pu...

This antique first edition book titled "The Compleat Herbal" or 'The botanical institutions of Mr. Tournefort' was published in 1719 in England on paper and bound in leather in the p...