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Quarto; hardcover with upper board decoration and black endpapers; 364pp., with a monochrome portrait frontispiece, many monochrome and colour illustrations. Minor wear; some negligible internal marks. Dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. The work and life of artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel, a groundbreaking painter of the cafe society who was highly influential to the Art Deco movement. Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1881-1949), painter of sportsmen and dandies, was also an interior designer and iconic illustrator of masculine elegance for publications including Harper's Bazaar. As early as 1909, he heralded the Art Deco style and became the favoured portraitist of American cafe society. Prominent international millionaires - W. K. Vanderbilt, Lady Mendl, Millicent Rogers, the Maharaja of Indore, and the Astor, Whitney, Frick, and Du Pont dynasties - paraded through his studios in New York and Palm Beach. A key Precisionism artist, he reflected the industrial and urban modernity of America's machine age in his stunning landscapes. This monograph - the first to be published in English - sheds new light on the artist's protean work and restores his place at the forefront of the history of French and American art.