Daniel Wildenstein Dinstitut (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Monet, Claude (illustrator). 1st Edition. Ecrit uniquement en français et non en anglais. Tome II, 1882-1886, Peintures; Tome III, 1887-1898, Peintures; Tome IV, 1899-1927, Peintures. Les trois volumes sont en très bon état. In French, not in English. Note that Tome I and supplement Tome V are not included. 15 x 11 inches. Printed and bound in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1979 and 1985. Bound in cornflower blue cloth, with crisp gilt-stamped lettering to the front boards and spines. Generally unbumped spine heads and tails, and fairly sharp corners, a few with very gentle bumping. Very clean bindings. Text blocks firmly bound in. Handsome map pastedowns/FEPs, white on dark blue. All pages are of heavy-duty glossy stock. With 305, 312, and 443 numbered pages. With 4, 5 and 11 full page, full color plates. Vol. II with B&W illustrations in reduced size for paintings 706-1122, Vol. III for 1123-1500, Vol. IV for 1501-1963. Vol. IV with extensive biography of the artist and numerous B&W documentary photographs. Impressively clean interiors, with no soiling or underlining observed. With color pictorial dust jackets, as issued. DJs with crisp black lettering to the fronts and spines. Very Good Plus volumes in Very Good dust jackets. Weight 22 lbs. These volumes, part of a catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Claude Monet [1840-1926], are an essential source for the art collector, connoisseur and scholar.