Party Nicolas: Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED COPY - Karma Books, 2021. Hardcover in pictorial boards. First Edition, First Printing. 9 x 8 inches. Unpaginated with circa 200 pages filled with color reproductions throughout. SIGNED by Nicolas Party on the title page. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy. SIGNED Party's new series of sumptuous sunsets and treescapes steeped in visionary splendor. This volume compiles nearly 50 recent watercolor paintings by Brussels- and Brooklyn-based Swiss artist Nicolas Party (born 1980). Party's perennial subjects are familiar yet uncanny: the sunsets and tree-laden landscapes in Watercolor are transformed through vibrant jewel-toned palettes and unorthodox compositions. His idiosyncratic approach conjures an immersive and surreal environment that is at once steeped in art historical references (Milton Avery, Ferdinand Hodler, Felix Vallotton) and extraordinarily distinctive. Party reads trees and landscapes as "constant markers, essential ingredients which always need to be used," referring to their storied lineage in visual culture. His watercolors emerge from this historical thicket: as he explains, "I like imagining a forest made of all the trees ever painted." . Signed.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Phaidon. London. 2022. Softcover with pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. 160 pages with numerous color images throughout. Text in English. SIGNED by Nicolas Party. BOOK CONDITION: Fine/New; a solid, tight, clean copy. SIGNED. The first and highly-anticipated monograph on one of the most successful, collected, and exciting painters today. Swiss-born Nicolas Party, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed artists working today, is known for his color-saturated paintings of everyday objects, with distinctly personal yet very accessible and recognizable imagery bright, graphic patterns applied to canvases, ceramics, furniture, floors, ceilings, doorways, and walls. He captures the essence of his subjects in surprising ways, heightening their physical and emotional resonance. Fascinated by the power of paint to alter our perception of the built environment and, within a gallery context, how we experience art, Party regularly paints murals, either as stand-alone works or as carefully orchestrated settings for his work. This is the first book dedicated to his practice and the first to examine his career to date. Signed.…