Robert Bechtle, First Edition (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 19 pp., bw ill., pictorial stapled wraps, 8vo. ; Bumping to tips of fore-edge corners, some smudging/rubbing to wraps, no ownership markings. : Well packaged, ships with tracking.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 19 pages. The entire issue is devoted to Robin White's interview of artist Robert Bechtle. Includes several black and white illustrations and a list of previous exhibitions. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very minor wear.

First edition. Small 4to. [44 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by Bechtle, essay by Bill Berkson. Fifteen full-color reproductions.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Clean, solid copy with no markings. Small crease on back cover.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Catalog of an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from February 12 to June 5, 2005, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, from June 26 to August 28, 2005. New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Limted printing of 1,000 copies. Hardcover with very good dust-jacket. Clean and solid. Ships from a smoke-free home.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. A great association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "To Chuck [Close] & Leslie, Bob B." Chuck Close is the celebrated contemporary painter, one of the most famous of our times, known for his large-scale photorealist and pixilated portraits (his most expensive painting sold for $4.3 million at auction in 2005). Among numerous accolades, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Art by Bill Clinton. Robert Bechtle is another accomplished, well-known photorealist, known for his paintings of Californian suburbia and cars, as well as portraits like Chuck Close. This book, produced on the occasion of his major retrospective at SF MOMA, is the definitive look at his career, tracing his work from the 1960s. With essays by Janet Bishop, Michael Auping, Jonathan Weinberg, and Charles Ray. At rear is a chronology his life as well as his exhibition history. A very good quarto in wrappers with very minor bumping to the wraps' corners and a couple bumps to the rear edge of the spine near its top, also light sunning to spine. A fantastic association between contemporary photorealists and portraitists. Signed.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (2005). 4to. 1st edition. Slightest toning to edges of leaves and textblock. Bumping and minor wear to forecorners and spine ends of gently rubbed cloth covered boards. Light bumping and creasing to forecorners and spine ends of rubbed dust jacket with thin, approx. 4in. long, faint scratch to front panel starting at center of top edge. Approx. 2in. long closed slice to center of d.j. rear panel is barely noticeable. VG/VG.