Franta: Paintings and Works on Paper [Inscribed to Sondra Lee, with a Full-Page Original Illustration]
Published by Mage Publishers, Inc, Washington DC, 1986
- Signed
- Used
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since February 22, 1998
Condition: Used
US$ 935.00
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Quarto (28.75cm); full black cloth, with titling and artist's facsimile signature stamped in white on spine and front cover; illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; 143,[1]pp; illus; text is in French and English. Inscribed by the artist to Broadway star Sondra Lee on the first blank page ("Pour Sondra / trés amicalement / Franta / April 87"), beneath a full-page mixed media illustration of two nude figures sitting cross-legged opposite each other. Fine in a lightly shelfworn, Near Fine dustjacket. Laid into this copy is an invitation for the 2001 exhibition Franta: "oeuvres choisies," signed by the artist in teal marker, with two other signed invitations send to Sondra Lee laid in. The first monograph of Franta's work, tracing "his development from the 1960s, when he first arrived in France, a refugee from Czechoslovakia, up to his recent exhibitions in New York and Paris." A bilingual edition, with 109 illustrations (50 of them in color). A distinguished copy, with a masterful full-page work of art. Provenance: From the library of Sondra Lee.…
Seller Inventory # 44327
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Franta: Paintings and Works on Paper [Inscribed to Sondra Lee, with a Full-Page Original Illustration]
- Author
- FRANTA, [François] (artwork); NOËL, Bernard (text)
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers, Inc, Washington DC
- Publication year
- 1986
- Dust jacket
- dj
- Signed
- Signed
- Edition
- First Trade Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Art, Photography & Architecture
Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
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We maintain an inventory of more than 50,000 items, including out-of-print and rare books, pamphlets, graphics, and ephemera, most in our specialty areas of Radical Thought and Modern Literature but including a large selection of fine books in all fields. Only a fraction of our inventory is catalogued for on-line sales. We also issue 2 to 4 printed catalogs each year of items in our specialisation. Though we are a private-premises business, our books are priced and organized for browsing. If you would like to visit our showroom, please contact us by e-mail or telephone as far in advance of your anticipated visit as possible. We'll do our best to accommodate you!…
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