Domela Jaffe (3 results)

Two hardcover books with dustjackets in slipcase; the Catalogue Raisonne is in English and French; the Jaffe book is in English, German and French; all in as new condition, no internal marks, clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Autograph; Square Octavo; 32 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy white wrappers printed in red. Signed by the Artist on limitation page. Original lithograph laid-in -- No. 23/100 signed by the artist. OCLC 63003717 Six color and ten b&w illustrations. "This book has been printed in an edition of 1000 copies. The first hundred copies contain an original numbered and signed lithograph by the artist. This is copy number 23." CÃ sar Domela (1900 â" 1992) was a Dutch sculptor, painter, photographer, and typographer, and a key member of the De Stijl movement. A self-taught artist, he lived from 1919 to 1923 in Ascona, Switzerland, developing his constructivist style, influenced heavily by cubism. Lacking a formal, artistic background, Domela's early art consisted of painted landscapes and still life where figures were reduced to geometric forms. In 1925, he became the youngest member of De Stijl, working closely with the famed Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian. However, he quit the movement very soon and its too rigorous rules, then added to his composition the diagonal line, and later the third dimension. When Hitler came into power in 1933, Domela fled Berlin and resettled in Paris and became a prominent member of the âAbstraction-Creationâ group, and in 1937, with Jean Arp and Sophie Tauber, began publishing the avant-garde journal âPlastica.â; Signed by Artist.

Condition: Très bon état. in-4 carré, toile éditeur bordeaux, jaquette illustrée, 180 pp., 49 reproductions en couleurs à pleine page et de nombreuses reproductions en noir de l'oeuvre du plasticien néerlandais César Domela (1900-1992), peintre de l'abstraction et disciple de Mondrian. Texte de H.L.C. Jaffé, professeur d'Art Moderne à l'Université d'Amsterdam, en français, allemand et anglais. Exemplaire enrichi d'un envoi autographe signé de l'artiste : "à mon ami Alain Resnais en souvenir d'une collaboration lointaine / Cesar Domela", allusion au court-métrage documentaire de Resnais en 1947 : Visite à César Domela. On joint trois ouvrages antérieurs consacrés à l'artiste, tous enrichis d'un envoi à Alain Resnais : Domela par Marcel Brion (in-12, broché, jaquette illustrée, Le Musée de Poche, 1961), Domela (in-12, broché, couverture illustré, Éditions Push pour la Galerie Marguerite Lamoy, 1976), et enfin Domela : schilderijen, reliëfs, beelden, grafiek, typografie, foto's (La Haye, Gemeentemuseum, 1980, in-4, broché, couverture illustrée pelliculée, 59 pp., nombreuses reproductions en noir et en couleurs). Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.