Heads Figures, Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very good condition with some wear to boards and foxing. Comes with a signed lithgraph which is bound into the book. B/w illustrations throughout. Beautiful large format book from Henry Moore. Stunning book. Signed by Illustrator(s).

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Orlando W. Rowland (illustrator). Oblong 12mo. Original linen with cloth clasp. 1896. Very good(+) condition, signed inside cover. Among the inserted drawings are two portraits of Henry Mills Alden, New York, 1916, and a finished drawing of "my studio in Paris before I light my lamp.".

Hardcover. Moore, Henry (illustrator). First edition. Unpaginated. Folio, 47.5 x 33 cm. With Auto-lithograph on Henry Moore watermarked paper tipped-in and signed in pencil. The Standard Edition. Plus 58 plates and annotations, printed by Curwen Press on hand-made paper. Interior fresh and bright, decorated endpapers. Tiny nicks to head and foot of dust wrapper. Orig. beige cloth spine lettered in gilt, illustrated dark gray front cover. Fine in very good slightly nicked dust wrapper replicating the front cover design.

Jacob Ernst Marcus (illustrator). 'J.E. MARCUS F. JANUARY 1809'A seated peasant man smoking a pipe, a head study in profile, busts of two children and a woman, and a girl walking away carrying a jug on her hip. A compositional sheet of character and costume studies.Made by Jacob Ernst Marcus after own design.Medium: Etching on wove (vellin) paper.Sheet size: 32 x 24 cm (12.6 x 9.45 inch). Image size: 14.5 x 9.2 cm. (5.71 x 3.62 inch).COSTUME STUDY, CHARACTER HEADS, FIGURE STUDIES, DUTCH ETCHING, PEASANT COSTUME, GENRE, RUSTIC FIGURES | DOOS-MARCUSBACKGROUND INFORMATIONPublished as part of the series "Studiebeelden en Fragmenten" (Study Images and Fragments), a series of 105 etchings, various sizes, signed and dated in the plate between December 1807 and June 1816, published by S. de Grebber in Amsterdam. Later republished as: Studie-prentwerk / Etudes gravees (Study printwork).Biography engraver: Jacob Ernst Marcus (1774-1826) was a Dutch painter, etcher, engraver, and lithographer. Born on Sint Eustatius and later active in Amsterdam, he studied under Reinier Vinkeles and was awarded for his graphic work. He became director of engraving at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Condition: very good, given age. Clean and well-preserved impression with only light foxing in the margins. No visible tears or restoration. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

First edition of Heads, Figures and Ideas, limited issue for subscribers, number 76 of 150 copies signed and dated by Moore on the frontispiece. Together with a maquette version of the same book, Form and Space, signed and titled by the artist on the front board in paint. In this collection of developmental sketches and notes, the artist writes, "the continual everlasting problem for me is to combine sculptural form (power) with human sensitivity and meaning, to try to keep the Primitive Power with humanist content." Heads, Figures and Ideas contains one of Moore's earliest lithographs produced by Curwen Prints, Thirteen Standing Stones. 1958, the year of publication, was the year in which the Curwen Studio was founded and the press ventured into art and print-making. The studio enjoyed a long association with Henry Moore. Copies numbered 1 to 27 of Heads, Figures and Ideas were bound in full morocco and issued with an original watercolour drawing. Cramer 41. Davis 02271 2 works, folio. Heads: auto-lithograph frontispiece in 4 colours on handmade wove paper with Henry Moore watermark, titled Thirteen Standing Figures, illustrated throughout in colour. Form: 14 colour illustrations, 3 of which do not appear in the finished vol. Heads: original half brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, blue boards, lettering to spine and front cover in white, with the publisher's illustrated grey cloth slipcase. Form: original quarter cloth, lettering to spine in gilt, front board illustrated in white, front board titled and signed by the artist in paint, illustrated endpapers, with the original cloth slipcase. Spine of Heads toned and slightly stained, marks to front cover, foxing to outer leaves not affecting signed print; spot of wear to spine of Form, boards a little rubbed; wear to both slipcases: a very good set.

Moore, Henry (illustrator). First edition. Copy 20, one of the first 27 special copies, containing a signed original drawing as well as a signed lithograph, from the limited edition of 150 copies. Folio, 340 x 490 mm. Publisher's full natural morocco, stamped in red on the cover and spine, after Moore's autograph. Fine condition; original plastic jacket. The drawing, in sepia ink, on white wove paper, signed "Moore 56" is titled "Seated Figures 1955-1956," and is cited as AG 55-56.75 / HMF 2814 in the catalogue raisonné of Moore's drawings. It measures 235 x 292 mm. and is mounted to a piece of brown Ingres paper (260 x 315 mm.). The lithograph is "Thirteen Standing Figures", 1958, (CGM 41) produced in an edition of 150, it measures 250 x 305 mm. Differing from the publishedm description in that our copy does not have a slipcase and the body of book is not signed by Moore. "64 unnumbered pages of Grosvenor Chater's Chariot offset cartridge [paper] in eight signatures of 8 with endpapers designed by the artist. The deluxe edition contains [the lithograph] CGM 41 tipped on to p.[1]. In the first twenty-seven copies a single sheet of grey Ingres paper with a drawing attached is mounted between the endpapers and p.[1]. The first four copies have other drawings mounted throughout the book; these copies are bound in red morocco with the title blocked in blue-grey on the front and the publication date on the spine. The next twenty-three copies are bound in beige morocco with the title blocked in red on the front and the artist's signature and publication date on the spine. The edition of 150 deluxe copies, numbered in ink on the recto of the second mounted sheet, comprises: 27 copies numbered 1 to 27 with CGM 41 numbered 1/150 to 27/150 and an original drawing, 123 copies numbered 28 to 150 with CGM 41 numbered 28/150 to 150/150. CGM 41 was printed by Curwen Studio, London 1958. Text printed by the Curwen Press, London. The books were bound and the slipcases made by Zaehnsdorf, London" From the Henry Moore web site.