Cezanne Study Development by Fry Roger, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American Edition; First Printing. First American Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Good only; lacking dustjacket, tan cloth covers edgeworn and soled; cloth on backstrip splitting at front cover. Previous owner's name on pastedown, bookplate on front free endpaper. Pages toned but unmarked. Art mono; Royal Crown Octavo; 88 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Paul Cezanne (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Bloomsbury Group painter and art critic Roger Fry's illustrated study of Paul Cezanne, a scarce work. The scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with forty plates bearing fifty-four figures. Collated, complete.A scarce work from Roger Eliot Fry, an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Fry is credited with being the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain.Fry presents a study of the development of the artistic talents of French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne, whose works were influenced both by Romanticism and Realism.Both Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all".With the armorial bookplate of Katherine Mary Hinchliffe to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, smart, with board perimeters lightly age toned, and front board lightly cocked. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instances of foxing to page perimeters. Light tide marks to tail of fore edges of plates. Very Good. book.

First Edition. Quarto (20 cm wide x 25.5 cm high). 88 pages text plus XL plates with art / paintings of Cézanne. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the beautifully firm binding. Paul Cézanne (Occitan: Pau Cesana; 19 January 1839 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism. While his early works were influenced by Romanticismsuch as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country houseand Realism, Cézanne arrived at a new pictorial language through intense examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He altered conventional approaches to perspective and broke established rules of academic art by emphasizing the underlying structure of objects in a composition and the formal qualities of art. Cézanne strived for a renewal of traditional design methods on the basis of the impressionistic colour space and colour modulation principles. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects. His painting initially provoked incomprehension and ridicule in contemporary art criticism. Until the late 1890s it was mainly fellow artists such as Camille Pissarro and the art dealer and gallery owner Ambroise Vollard who discovered Cézanne's work and were among the first to buy his paintings. In 1895, Vollard opened the first solo exhibition in his Paris gallery, which led to a broader examination of Cézanne's work. Both Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all". (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.