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Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1978
ISBN 10: 0714818259ISBN 13: 9780714818252
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by E. P. Dutton, 1978, 1978
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, first printing Inscribed by another artist on the opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text. Very close to fine and bright in like dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. 68 illustrations, 27 in color.
Published by Phaidon Press Ltd, Oxford, 1978
ISBN 10: 0714818259ISBN 13: 9780714818252
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 68 illustrations, 27 in colour. (illustrator). First UK Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Brown cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 68 illustrations, 27 in colour. 80 pages clean and tight. Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) is a strange figure in French twentieth-century art. He pursued his own simple untutored course throughout all the years when his contemporaries were experimenting with new styles and movements. Rousseau's simplicity and naivety were notorious and, always gullible, he often found himself the victim of practical jokers. But his own confidence in himself as an artist never wavered, even if others found it difficult to take him seriously. In some ways his paintings are very sophisticated, the design and colours worked out in rare and intricate detail. Their appeal lies at once in their directness and their depth. These paintings, at first the spare-time occupation of a minor government official (Rousseau was, in fact, a toll-collector in Paris - hence his rather misleading nickname 'Le Douanier'), are often poetic evocations of exotic lands. where lions and tigers lurk among luxuriant undergrowth. Perspective ant scale have little place in his work, but it was probably the extraordinary realism that he could achieve while ignoring visual conventions that appealed so much to Picasso and his circle and brought Rousseau to wider notice as the first of the so-called `modern primitives' or 'na~ve painters'. The life and work of this unworldly but endearing artist are well described and illustrated in this outstanding new survey. Ronald Alley is Keeper of the Modern Collection at the Tate Gallery, London. Jacket illustration: Detail from Myself. Portrait-Landscape (Prague, National Gallery) Size: 4to.
4:o. 80 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, dust-jacket.