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Rare and important volume belonging to the deluxe edition of 109 copies in-quarto tellière, of which 100 on Vergé Pur Fil Lafuma de Navarre paper were reserved to the Bibliophiles de...

A stunning portrait of Mr John Gilbert. This original oil on canvas was painted by James Peter Quinn in 1929 and was exhibited at The Paris Salon of that year. A fine portrait, it is in excellent condition and framed in the original period frame. This is a fine painting by a noted Australian listed artist. Signed right. Provenance. Exhibited at the Paris salon 1929. Condition. Oil on canvas in very good condition, image size 40 inches by 30 inches. Housed in its original gallery frame, 47 by 37 inches framed. Excellent condition. James Peter Quinn (1869-1951) was born on 4 December 1869 at 60 Bourke Street, Melbourne. He was the third son of John Quinn, restaurant-keeper born in Antigua, West Indies, and his English wife Ann, née Long. Little is known of Quinn's childhood and early education; both parents died when he was young. His guardians apprenticed him to an engraver, but he undertook part-time studies at the school of design, National Gallery of Victoria, under Frederick McCubbin in 1887-89, and at the school of painting under George Folingsby and Bernard Hall in 1890-93. Awarded several student prizes, he won the gallery's travelling scholarship in 1893. Quinn went to London in 1894 but quickly left for Paris where he studied at the Académie Julian, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts under Jean Paul Laurens, and with Colarossi and Delécluse. He returned to London about 1902 and married fellow art-student Blanche Louise Guernier there on 29 September. By 1904 he had exhibited with the Royal Academy of Arts and went on to establish a reputation as a highly successful portrait painter. His finest and most sensitive work was produced before 1910. His family were the subjects of many paintings, including 'Mère et Fils', awarded an honourable mention at the Old Salon, Paris, in 1912. He also painted many self-portraits. His many commissioned works included portraits of Joseph Chamberlain, the Duchess of York and, later, the Duke of Windsor. In 1918-19 he was an official war artist with the Australian Imperial Force in France, and exhibited war paintings at the Grafton Galleries, London. In 1919, with George Coates he was an official artist to the Canadian War Records. He was a council-member of the London Portrait Society, and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, exhibiting regularly with them and the Royal Academy, and in Paris with the Old and New salons. Quinn's sudden return to Australia in December 1935, alone, followed the death of his gifted artist-son René. He held exhibitions at the Fine Art Society's Gallery, Melbourne, in 1936 and the Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery next year. Quinn ostensibly returned as an acclaimed artist, was invited to rejoin the Victorian Artists' Society he had joined first in 1888, and was its president (but for one year) in 1937-50. Yet a coolness existed. Though he had little in common with the modernist painters of the period, his commitment to a tolerant brotherhood of artists found no allies among the aggressively conservative old guard. In 1937 he clashed publicly with (Sir) Robert Menzies who in opening a V.A.S. exhibition denigrated modern art. In spite of the affection felt for him by many artists and students, Quinn was somewhat isolated. He continued to exhibit, winning the Crouch prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, in 1941. In the mid-1940s he taught briefly at the National Gallery school. A lover of good food, wine and conversation, Quinn delighted in mixing with all classes. Frequenting the haunts of journalists, writers and the more Bohemian fringe, he was easily recognizable with his bow tie, grey curly hair and cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. Survived by one son, he died of cancer on 18 February 1951 at Prahran and was buried in St Kilda cemetery. His war portraits are held by the Australian War...

Edition of 793 copies. Copy on Velin Navarre paper. Includes a portrait of the author by Raoul Dufy, engraved by G. Aubert. Language: french. Binding and cover lightly worn. Partiall...

One of 150 copies on Japon including 6 engravings not present in the edition on papier velin. Volume includes also 2 original engravings made with original plates of Renoir. Georges ...

Edition n.10 of 693 copies. Copy on velin navarre including portrait of the author by Alberto Savinio and engraved on wood by G. Aubert. Partially uncut, very good conditions.

Edition of 600 copies. One of the 100 copies out of commerce, with the original signature of the author. Includes some original xylographies on the cover, on the frontispiece and on ...

Spatial Equilibrium, 1925-26 is Balla's experimentation with space and movement dating from 1925-26, done on limited-run, very high-quality silkscreen prints. Edizione postuma pubbli...

This lovely portrait was painted circa 1920 by the noted British Impressionist portrait painter Walter Ernest Webster. This painting depicts a beautiful young woman in an Impressioni...

Perfect conditions and uncut. One of the only 19 copies on Japon Imperial including one suite of xilographs on papier de Chine.

Copy on Japon Imperial paper. Many b/w and coloured illustrations. Excellent conditions and partially uncut.

Edition of 351 copies. Copy number 2 on vergé d'Arches paper. Includes 2 drawings reproduced in lithograph by Yves Tanguy. Superb copy in perfect conditions. Uncut.Louis Aragon was b...

Le Cirque by Vertes and De la Serna is an edition of 103 copies including 5 original colour etchings and many drawings reproduced with lithograph techniques by Vertès. Includes soft ...

Edition of 412 copies including 30 original colored vignettes by J. E. Laboureur. Copy on Jute naturel. Light flowering in the last pages. Very good conditions, uncut. 

Edition of 562 copies. Copy on pur fil Lafuma paper. Includes preface and notes by Jacques Crepet and an unpublished portrait of Charles Baudelaire. Cover very lightly worn on top, ...

Edition of 348 copies including 22 lithographs by Yves Alix of which 9 full page. One of 300 copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. Nice volume on parisian Court (judges, attorney...

Edition of 1.053 copies. One of the 100 copies "de tete", in-quarto tellière numbered in roman numbers, printed for the Bibliophiles de la Nouvelle Revue Française on papier vergé La...

Edition of 600 copies including 12 original lithographs by Vertès. Original editorial soft cover with original jacket printed on pink cardboard. Copy on Vélin Pur Fil Lafuma with e...

This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 110, at t...

Within the fascinating world of vintage poster art, Rudd's original poster for "Escargots Ménetrel Exquis! Exquis!" whisks us away to a time when gastronomic pleasures were celebrate...

Edition of 1345 copies. Copy on velin Lafuma. Edition including original etchings by Chas Laborde. Perfect conditions, uncut. 

Edition of 1960 copies. Copy on manifactures de rives. Very good conditions excepting cover. Includes original woodcuts by Foujita. 

Edition of 440 copies including 32 coloured illustrations by André Lhote. One of the illustrations is full-page. Original editorial softcover with spine lightly damaged. Inside near ...

Edition of 300 copies including 6 original etchings/sanguines and many gouaches inside the text by Demetrios Galanis. One of 243 copies on Vergé de Rives. Original editorial softcov...

Edition of 364 copies including 14 original engravings by Chas Laborde. One of the rare copies on paper from Holland. Original editorial softcover.Copy in perfect conditions.The firs...

Edition of 395 including 17 original coloured etchings by Jean Bruller. Copy on velin de Rives. Very good conditions.

Beautiful edition of 1000 copies. Copy on Japon Imperial paper. Includes etchings by Siméon. Illustrated cover. Spine lightly damaged in both top and bottom. Uncut and in superb cond...

This beautiful Scottish Impressionist watercolour painting is by noted animal and horse painter Nathaniel Hughes John Baird. Painted circa 1900 it depicts a plough team and a farmer ...

Paris la Nuit. Les Plaisirs de la Capitale, ses bas fonds et ses jardins secrets. Considerations by Louis Aragon on different aspects of Paris, seen from...

Edition of 532 copies. Copy on Holland de Rives. Good conditions, lightly wore on binding. Edition including an illustration by Giorgio De Chirico representing the portrait of the au...

Composition of Animals is a lithograph realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923. Goo...

Copy n. 30/1150, on Hollande paper, with b/w lithographies and suite on BFK Rives paper. Superb copy in perfect conditions. Including the complete suite by Gus Bofa.

This superb vibrant Post Impressionist African landscape oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted about 1925 when Pryse was visiting Morocco and N...

Edition of 150 copies including original b/w and colored illustrations by Dignimont.  Comments by Francis Carco. Second book in which Carco introduces an artist after the first dedic...

Edition of 507 copies including 66 illustrations by Carlègle, colored "au pochoir". Extremely rare and precious copy on Japon Imperial (one of 37 of the commercial edition), includin...

Mario Bazzi's 1923 original poster for Marsala alcohol by John Hopps & Sons, Mazara del Vallo - Casa Fondata nel 1811, stands as a visual testament to the rich heritage, craftsmanshi...

Edition of 317 copies including engravings by Chas Laborde. Copy on Vergé de Rives. Perfect Conditions. Partially Uncut.

Edition of 206 copies including 11 original engravings by Demetrios Galanis and one original frontispiece. Copy on reservede to Librairie Champion. Includes a printsuite and an origi...

Edition of 625 copies, including reproductions of drawings by J. Cocteau, in which are portrayed for example I. Strawinsky, J. Hugo, P. Picasso, F. Poulenc and many others. Book dedi...

Edition of 2108 copies. Copy on Velin Alfa Lafuma paper. Original paperback cover. Binding partially unglued. Very good conditions. Uncut.

Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952) Watercolour and ink on paper 28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 inches) Inscribed, dated and signed lower left, Les Andelys 1927 Ludovic Rodo Thi...

Copies including 37 engravings by J.E. Laboureur. The edition includes 12 numbered copies and 400 copies on velin Lafuma-Navarre. Lightly wore on cover and binding.

A fine oil on canvas which dates to circa 1920 by noted Australian artist Frederick William Leist. It is a super portrait oil painting which depicts a beautiful young woman lost in contemplation. Almost Orientalist by design, it is a super roaring twenties painting. Full of vitality and impressionistic colour and influences of 20th century portraiture, it is a very evocative image. Signed lower right. Provenance. Collection IMI PLC. Condition. Oil on canvas. Unframed size is 30 inches by 25 inches, in excellent condition. Housed in a fine Bourlet gilt gallery frame. Framed size is 40 inches by 35 inches, in excellent condition. Frederick William (Fred) Leist (1873-1945) born Sydney. He was the eighth surviving and fifteenth child of Edward Frederick Leist, builder, and his wife Harriet Eliza, née Norris, both Londoners. Leist was educated at Crown Street Public School and, while training as a furniture designer in the workshops of David Jones Ltd, studied art at Sydney Technical College before becoming a student of the Art Society of New South Wales; under Julian Ashton's tuition he learned plein air techniques. 1898 he married Ada Sarah Roberts. Leist drew for the Bulletin in the 1890s and became staff artist on the Sydney Mail; he was also local representative for the London Graphic from 1900. According to William Moore he 'was the first to portray the Australian girl as a definite type'. Leist was an original council-member of the Society of Artists, Sydney, in 1895 and, after their merger, of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales. However in 1907 he was one of the twelve who re-established the Society of Artists. The Leists moved to England and from 1910 to 1925 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy of Arts. His first successful picture, 'The Mirror', a portrait of his daughter, was hung on the line at the Royal Academy in 1911 and next year at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français. At the 1914 Royal Academy exhibition his painting of two Spanish guitar players, 'The Rivals', was acclaimed. The Review critic wrote: 'it is a composition in light and a pattern of colour, given power and meaning by restraint'. Noted for his studies of handsome women, Leist was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists and to the Chelsea Arts Club in 1913 and next year to the Royal Institute of Oil Painters; later he also exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. During World War I, Leist worked for the War Office designing recruiting posters. Then, in September 1917, he was appointed an official war artist with the Australian Imperial Force and attached to 5th Division headquarters as an honorary lieutenant. From September to December and from June to August 1918, 'dodging shells and mustard gas', he produced about 150 small sketches, drawings and watercolours, and a portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Talbot Hobbs. He later fulfilled commissions to paint four large battle scenes including 'Battle of Polygon Wood' and 'Capture of Mont St Quentin'. The striking colours of these battle scenes are in strong contrast to the delicacy and muted tones of his watercolours such as 'The Lacemaker'. In London, Leist consolidated his reputation: he was represented in the 1918 exhibition of Australian war...

Text and illustrations by Gus Bofa. Plates and spine partially missing and restored. Inside excellent conditions and partially uncut.

This beautiful, large British figurative landscape oil painting is by noted Slade School artist Franklin White. Painted circa 1920, the composition is of a large number of villagers ...

One of 75 copies on Hollande Van Gelder. Including 8 original etchings by Maurice Asselin. Copy in perfect conditions and partially uncut.

Editorial soft cover, spine restored. Inside excellent conditions.  Couverture souple originale et dos restauré. A l'intérieur le livre est dans d'excellentes conditions. 

Petite rousseur sur la couverture souple éditoriale originale. Langue: français. Excellentes conditions.André Breton, né en 1896 et mort en 1966, était un écrivain et poète français....

Edition of 1650 copies. Copy number on Hollande Van Gelder paper. Includes an original litograph by Maurice Barraud on the frontispiece. Seventh volume of the "Ceinture du Monde" col...

Edition of 336 copies illustrated by A. Dignimont. Copy on velin pur film Lafuma. Frontispecie separeted from binding. Very good condition. 

Ex libris -  Anny Rabl is an Artwork realized in 1950. Etching on ivory paper. The work is glued on colored cardboard. Total dimensions: 20x16. Good conditions.  The artwork repr...

Author of the book is Guillaume Apollinaire. Edition of 100 copies including 6 drypoints (a full page engraving on frontispiece and 5 engravings in text). Copy on Vergé de Rives à la...

This superb vibrant Orientalist Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted about 1925 when Pryse was visiting Morocco and Norther...

Edition of 215 copies including b/w reproductions of artworks by Charles Pequin and a portrait of the artist by G. Aubert. Copy on papier pur fil. Copy in good conditions. Partially...

This beautiful and impressive Royal Academy exhibited British Impressionist landscape oil painting is by noted artist Frederick Gordon Crosby. It was painted and exhibited in 1921 an...

Edition of 563 copies including 19 original engravings by Dubreuil. Exceptionally fine and rare copy. One of the only 18 copies on Japon Ancien including one original drawing by Dubr...

Edition of 500 copies. Copy on papier Velin du Marais paper. Language: french. Soft editorial cover, almost perfect conditions. Uncut. Philippe Soupault was born in 1897 and died in ...

Edition of 2300 copies. One of only 70 copies on Pur Fil Lafuma paper. Language: french. Little foxing on cover, copy with beards. Perfect conditions inside.

Le Masque de la Mort Rouge is a phototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felu...