Diego Rivera, Signed (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Clean, crisp hardcover in near fine condition; lightly age-toned text block. Fine DJ in mylar cover. INSCRIBED by the author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Signed and lined by the author, without inscription. In near fine condition. "An engaging. biography of the masterful Mexican muralist of indefatigable energy both as an artist and personality, released by Knopf in hardcover as a retrospective exhibition of Rivera's work travelled during 1999 from Detroit to Los Angeles to Dallas.". Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Original price of $17.00 printed on dust jacket front flap. Front flap has a small crease now protected in paper backed polyester film. Book has Inscription on half title page "To Judy - And to all the bright colors of our future! Warm Regards - Anne". Book has lightly bumped corners. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5", glossy pict wraps, 87pp, minor extremity wear else a nice, clean copy. FIRST EDITION (NAP), INSCRIBED "Best wishes." AND SIGNED BY THE PLAYWRIGHT, KARIM ALWARI.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5", glossy pict wraps, 87pp, a nice, clean copy of this SCARCE title. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED "Kindest regards" AND SIGNED BY THE PLAYWRIGHT, KARIM ALRAWI. SCARCE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 457 pp., xxi. First published in 1963; this copy, Stated: "Second Printing". 164 Illustrations, plus 39 drawings by the artist inserted into the text. Following "Notes on Illustrations", pp. ix-xxi, and the Introduction, Contents divided into 35 sections: 1. "Silver and Dreams"; 2. "The Little Atheist"; 3. "The Education of an Artist"; 4. "A Colonial in Europe"; 5. "The Fall of Don Porfirio"; 6. "Painter's Paris"; 7. "The Isms in Art"; 8. "How to Price a Painting"; 9. "Paris in Wartime"; 10. "Quest for a Universal Language"; 11. "The Wretched and Exuberant Land"; 13. "Angelina Wits"; 14. "A Red Star Rises"; 15. "When Artists Form a Union"; 16. "All Mexico on a Wall"; 17. "Wild Beauty"; 18. "The War on Diego's Monkeys"; 19. "Journey to the Holy Land"; 20. "The Communist War on Rivera"; 21. "Diego Picks Himself a Comrade"; 22. "A School to Turn Out Supermen"; 23. "Palaces and Millionaires"; 24. "The Art of a Continent"; 25. "The Painter and the Machine"; 26. "The Battle of Rockefeller Center"; 27. "Alone"; 28. "Making Peace with the Yankee"; 29. "The Golden Age"; 30. " 'God Does Not Exist!' "; 31. "Return to the Bosom of the Church"; 32. "The Death of Frida Kahlo"; 33. "Both Moscow and Rome"; 34. "Death Comes for the Painter"; 35. "Notes for a Future Biographer"; Bibliography, pp. 433-442; Index, pp. 443-457. Brick red cloth and gray cloth spine with chocolate title and author name blocking, still with sharp gilt lettering, as with bright gilt lettering of author name in cursive at lower right front cover; top edge stained red; olive endpapers. Brown dustwrapper with stil bright gilt=stamped lettering on full front cover; brown spine dulled with gilt lettering slightly less bright than on front cover (all lettering eminently readable);some light shelfwear across spine ends, at corners, and at a spot on lower right front cover edge; thin line wear for short lengths down right spine edge;1/4" perforation at rear gutter near midpoint (archival tape backing, some longstanding, for these peccadilloes): describes worse than it is, but there you have it: dustwrapper did its job, leaving book itself in essentially Fine condition (minor diagonal proto-curl, post trivial bump at top right front cover corner and teeny tip wear at corners). Dustwrapper did its job--essentially NO surface wear to book--and is now in Brodart mylar, forgiving sins graciously. Spine strong (NO cracks); NO remainder marks. Clean text. Inscribed on ffep to "Rose and Lutz Coser. . .from Ella and Bert"/ "Stanford, 1969". See Wikipedia: Bertram David Wolfe (January 19, 1896 February 21, 1977) was an American scholar. . ."/ "Ella Goldberg Wolfe and Bertram Wolfe worked at the Rand School. After the passage of the Sedition Act of 1918, they were forced to go underground, living under assumed names. They lived for a time in Mexico City, where their circle of friends included Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. In 1929, they moved to Moscow but fell out with Stalin; they left two years later and returned to Brooklyn. Wolfe earned a degree in Spanish from Columbia University and went on to teach Spanish literature at Hunter College and in public schools in New York City. / After Stalin aligned himself with Hitler in 1939, Wolfe and her husband abandoned communism and became anti-communists. At the time, the couple found themselves hated by the left and distrusted by the political right. / In 1966, Wolfe moved to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where she spent her time editing her husband's papers and providing eyewitness accounts to researchers of the historic times in which she lived. Wolfe was consulted by researchers for the film "Reds". / Personal life and death / In 1910, Goldberg met Bertram Wolfe. They married in 1917. / She became politically conservative and was a supporter of Ronald Reagan. She also became friends with Edward Teller, who was strongly anti-communist. / Ella Goldberg Wolfe died age 103 on January 8, 2000, at home in Palo Alto.". Signed by Author(s).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Square quarto (25.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 207pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Handsome pictorial work on the Mexican muralist. Signed.

First edition; 4to; illustrations, text in German, captions in German and Russian, book design by Paul Urban; publisher's cloth over pictorial paper boards, dust-jacket, only a gragment, lacking all but the upper cover, slight rubbing and soiling to the boards, internally very good; preserved in a later, custom-made solander box. Signed by Diego Rivera on the half-title page.

Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Posada, Jose Guadalupe (illustrator). 1st. Mexican Folkways, 1930. Lrg. 4to. 208pp. Mexican Folkways, Mexico, 1930. Editors Francis Toor, Paul O'HIggins, Blas Vanegas Arroyo. An important early work on the great Mexican engraver and popular artist Jose Guadalupe Posada, with an introduction by Diego Rivera. Reproduces hundreds of Posada's engravings, including calaveras, political satire, crime scenes, and every-day life in Mexico during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as originally depicted in the penny sheets, chapbooks and other ephemeral and cheap publications sold in the streets of Mexico City. "Of the fifteen thousand cuts that Posada is said to have made for the leading publishing house of popular literature Vanegas Arroyo, all that were not worn out, or stolen during the years of revolution, are, so far as is known, published here.This is the first permanent record of the work of Josà Guadalupe Posada" - Frances Toor. Folio. Original color pictorial cloth in green with black and red letters and image. Some minor light fraying to spine ends. [8],208,[6] p. Photographic portrait frontispiece of Posada and his son, loose. Text in Spanish and English. Signed by Doris Lee. Original color pictorial cloth in green with black and red letters and image.

plus tipped-in color plates, b/w illus, tipped-in color plate on frt. wrps. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Chromo plates with brillant color, two by Diego Rivera and many vignettes with strong modernist style by Neve. CLASSIC in the late modernist style in Mexico. (Backstrip repaired, some soiling and chipping to edges of covers). Signed.

b/w plates (2 fldg.), ports., pict. wrps. Interesting association INSCRIBED copy from Salazar to R.E. Montes i Bradley in a paragraph of appreciation and friendship while working as journalists for "el Nacional" and the "gran movimiento revolutionario". Dated 1960. Scarce work by Salazar who at the time was a member of the "Liga de Escritores de América" with illustrations from murals by Rivera, Orozco and Dr. Atl. Cover illustration by Rivera is a classic. (4in. tears pp. 213-218 with pages intact; slight stain at bottom margin corners of last 6 pages). Signed.

Condition: Very Good. Signed by Rivera on the title page. Complete with 19 attractive numbered and colored collotype plates and a booklet housed in a quarter linen over orange paper portfolio. Plates nicely printed by Ganymed, Berlin. Some general wear and staining to portfolio (see image) most significantly to corners, but the plates all remain bright and clean. Please expect the possibility of additional postage as this is a large book. Scarce. 13.75 x 18.5 in (35 x 47 cm).

Lengthy manuscript signed, 15 total pages on eight sheets, 5,5 x 8,5 inch and 6,5 x 9 inch, 28.01.1949, manuscript consisting of an interview with Diego Rivera, written in the hand of the interviewer Andre Visal - Diego Rivera signs at the conclusion and adds his initials nine times throughout, with toning, puncher holes to the first five sheets, creases and edge tear to a vertical edge of the final three sheets - overall in nearly fine condition. In parts (grammar and spelling retained):"Mexico has entered in the period of bourgeois consolidation in the interior policy - regarding the exterior policy is entirely in the hands of the Washington govt through the investment of American money, control of the value of Mexican by Wall St and the treaties signed collectively between latin American countries and US who objectively take out the independence of all the latin American countrys especially Mexico because of being such close neighbors and because no country in the world is independent without having a natl economy based upon his own industry and agriculture which is not the case in Mexico. On the other hand all through the history the ruling class has controlled or tried to control the production of art, thru the market, helped by fashions, legislation corruption and finally by force.Only escape to this power of control the art production who make blood & bombs with the insurrection of groups or classes fighting against the rulers. Naturally, now when the fight for Agrogion democratic bourgeois revolution has stopped to give place to consolidation of the new bourgeoisie - typically represented by Miguel Aleman and his govt - has not the same need of demagougy of the preceeding govt. Therefore they have established a mural painting commission but they dont commission any more mural painting and the commission intergrated [David Alfaro] Siqueiros, [Jose Clemente] Orozco, Rivera has his own work stopped in govt buildings of Mexico City. On the other hand the new bourgeoisie has discovered the new French style - the ultra modern new academician Le Corbusier. Being a half colonial country Mexico has a petty bourgeois & bourgeoisie who never dare to employ any style belonging to herself unless his foreign masters approve. This is why now, after having tried French style for houses, they have passed to California & Colonial (as they call themselves) and now they build houses in French Corbusier style - especially because being more simple they are more inexpensive. The accumulation of money, around 10000 declared new millionaires, and the new type of architecture has established a certain need of painting not only to be enjoyed esthetically but also to play as furniture - and especially - to accomplish its basic function of exchange value susceptible to rise in value & to sell good interest to investor. This need help by the interest of the recently established art dealers, int. decorators art critics, his helpers and in general all apparatus of control belonging to new bourgeoisie including the fine arts institute - has provoked a production in accord with the needs of the buyers. That is the real reason and the truth about the so-called crisis of Mexican painting.".

Signed album page, one page, 4,25 x 2,75 inch, Coyoacan (Mexico), 7.01.1946, signed and dated in dark ink "Coyoacan, Enero 7 de 1946/7 - Frida Kahlo." - also signed and dated by Rosa Rolanda (1895-1970) in green ink (covered by the passepartout), attractively mounted (removable) for fine display with a photograph, shows Frida Kahlo in a chest-up portrait (altogether 8,25 x 11,75 inch), with very mild signs of wear - in nearly very fine condition. Accompanied by two signed album pages: 1. Signed album page, one page, 4,25 x 5,25 inch, Mexico, 7.01.1946, signed and inscribed in blue ink "Para Anutza Daniel - Diego Rivera- Mexico Enero 7 1947" - also signed by an unidentified person (with an added sketch), attractively mounted (removable) for fine display with a photograph, shows Diego Rivera next to Frida Kahlo (altogether 11,75 x 8,25 inch), with very mild signs of wear - in nearly very fine condition. 2. Signed album page, one page, 4,25 x 5,25 inch, Mexico, 30.11.1946, signed and dated in blue ink "Maria Izquierdo: - Mexico Noviembre - 30 de 1946", attractively mounted (removable) for fine display with a photograph, shows Maria Izquierdo in front of an artwork (altogether 11,75 x 8,25 inch), with very mild signs of wear - in nearly very fine condition. All three items from the collection of the Romanian-born German-American author and journalist Anita Daniel (1892-1978).