Cubism (20 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 144 pages. Pablo Picasso & Cubism; Mapping the Stars; Termite Tricks; South Sudan Refugees; Arctic Camping; Dinosaurs to Birds; Fakarava Shark Frenzy.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First edition. 8vo. Original card covers. Essay by R.S.Johnson, 64 item cataloue, 7 colour and 67 b/w plates. Bibliography.

Printed Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket. First Edition. 61 item catalogue, history of the club, 26 b/w illustrations.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First printing in this translation by Peter Read with plates copied from the 1913 edition. Vertical crease to the spine otherwise a firm, clean copy.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Small octavo. Unpaginated (12 pages). Nice exhibition catalogue.

First paper back edition in publisher's original colour illustrated laminated card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 128 pp with 32 plates, 3 in colour, 21 line blocks in text. Rubbing to the corners and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Loosely inserted A4 typed biography from the Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Gut. Hardback with Jacket, coloured illustr., 64 pp., Großformat, durch Preisschilderentfernung Oberflächenpapierschäden in Preisschildgröße vorn oben rechts und unten re., Moderne Kunst; innen sauber, keine Eintragungen oder Markierungen, Ebd. fest, clean pages, no names, no markings, in stock, sofort lieferbar.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. 180x90mm. Original paper wrappers, stapled. 8pp. Foreward by Philip James, 29 item catalogue. Includes works by Braque, Duchamp, Leger and Metzinger. With interesting on the spot pencil annotations.

First paper back edition in publisher's original laminated card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Contains 61-(blank), 2 pp with diagrams and figures throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy and white open canvas cloth cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered navy back. 8vo. 8'' x 9''. Contains 78 pp with 12 colour plates and 30 monochrome plates throughout. Light spotting to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with minor rubbing to the tips, not price clipped, 30s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].

First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 9½'' x 7¼''. Contains 32 pp with plates in colour and monochrome throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Loosely inserted sales receipt dated 29 August 1974 from Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].

First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 10'' x 8¼''. Contains 20 pp + covers with plates in colour and monochrome throughout. Sun fading around the spine, else in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Hardcover. Later printing. Near Fine, missing the dust jacket.

Condition: Fine. KOS02300872.

First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 8¼'' x 8¼''. Contains 108 pp with plates in colour and monochrome throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Tate Gallery Exhibition Catalogue ticket laid-in. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].

4to. 126 Seiten. Mit 178 teils farbigen Abbildungen. Orig.-Broschur. - Sehr guter Zustand.

London, Weiedenfeld and Nicholson, 1969, 1st ed., (12),139 pag., plates, original cloth with dustjacket. = Dustjacket w. tear on front.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). Quarto. 9¼'' x 8''. Contains 232 pp with 235 illustrations, 24 in colour. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Surrealism].

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Original paper wrappers. The wrappers stained and faded, with slight marginal loss. The paper uniformly broned and fragile.

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. 240 x 185 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/2"). 44 pp., [2] leaves. STRIKING 3-D OPTICAL ILLUSION BINDING BY A. CONTRERAS (stamp-signed on front turn-in), WITH AN ALL-OVER DESIGN OF CUBES rendered in black, white, and silver morocco, smooth spine. In older (probably original) brown woodgrain drop-back box backed with black buckram. With 26 black & white photographic reproductions of works by Cézanne, Picasso, Derain, Braque, Metzinger, Laurencin, Gleizes, Léger, Duchamp, Picabia, and original owner Juan Gris, printed on glossy white paper. WITH A HALF TITLE INSCRIPTION (in French) OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FROM ONE OF THE CO-AUTHORS (translated as): "To the painter Juan Gris, with all my best wishes, Metzinger." Occasional underlinings in blue pencil. Text leaves with overall light browning and occasional foxing (due to paper stock), lower corner of half title restored (and fore edge with minor chipping), otherwise a fine copy, the plates clean and bright and the binding unworn. Penned by two Cubist artists, this is a highly resonant association copy of the first major treatise on the Cubism movement, presented to noted Cubist painter Juan Gris, and later put into an illusionistic binding composed of variably colored cubes that seem to jump off the surface. Albert Gleizes (1881-1953) and Jean Metzinger (1883-1956) had painted in both Post-Impressionist and Fauvist styles before their interest in exploring form and structure as well as light and color led them to the style that would become Cubism. Influenced by Cézanne's "brick-by-brick" technique and Poincaré's writings on space and time, the new movement sought to examine objects from a mobile perspective, and to depict multiple views of a subject in one painting. In "On Cubism," they explain: "An object has not one absolute form; it has many. It has as many as there are planes in the region of perception." The work features black & white illustrations of Cubist paintings by the authors and by fellow pioneers Picasso, Braque, Derain, and Juan Gris, to whom this copy was presented by Metzinger. Born in Madrid as José Victoriano González-Pérez (1887-1927), Gris studied engineering before moving to Paris to pursue art. First working as an illustrator for periodicals, he was inspired by Metzinger to begin painting seriously. His training in engineering helped him appreciate the importance of mathematics in painting, a realization triggered, according to art historian John Richardson, by Metzinger's painting "Le Goûter [Tea Time]," exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1911. Our volume was later in the collection of, and probably bound for, Chilean architect and collector Carlos Alberto Cruz (1939-2022). We have been unable to find more information on our binder, "A. Contreras," but it seems possible that he was also Chilean, as the Valparaiso-based Cruz owned a number of bindings signed with that name.