Cezanne: A Study of His Development

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. …