The Leger Galleries (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Overall VGood. Soft cover in very good condition. Slight tanning on edges. Pages overall in very good condition and clean. Unpaginated. Illustrations black and white and colour. Overall VG condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> It was in 1892 that Joseph Leger (1867-1925), whose father had moved from Ireland to London some years earlier, began to deal in pictures as a sideline to his activities as a painter and as a restorer: a not unusual combination of professions in those days. The year 1892 saw a number of notable picture sales taking place with major paintings making what would now seem to be bargain prices. Indeed, amongst the most delightful canvases sold that year was the beautiful study by William Hogarth of The Heads of his Six Servants which Charles Fairfax Mur-ray purchased for 155 gns and presented to the nation. In that first year of business Leger would prob-ably have seen a number of important pictures in the salerooms that were later to be purchased by his successors in this firm. Amongst these were the outstanding vignette by Turner, The Sea! The Sea!, which was sold for 76 Gns in the Dent Sale at Christies, and which in 1988 was purchased by this firm in the same saleroom for ?88,000. Romney's Lady Hamilton as a Welsh.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine condition. Soft cover in near fine condition. Slight evidence of rubbing and bumping on corners and edges. Slight spotting on spine and back cover. Internal pages overall in near fine condition and clean. Illustrations in black and white and colour. Unpaginated. Overall near fine condition.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 29.5cm x 25cm. xvii, 190pp. B&w frontis. Several colour and b&w plates. 1st edition 1992. Slightest wear. A very decent copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (r6).

Heft. Condition: Very Good. Geheftet, unpaginiert (24 Blatt), 43 teils farbige Tafeln mit Angaben zum Gemälde, Einband etwas geblichen, berieben und geringfügig knickspurig am Rücken, ansonsten gut erhaltenes, festes und sauberes Exemplar---Kunst. nein.