Fine Art: Traditional Painting & Sculpture/Art History: Metal - Silver/Gold/Precious Stones/Enamel Monographs
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BELLANGE, JACQUES ca.1575-1616: ANDROGYN ELEGANCE VED HOFFET I NANCY.
Author: Fischer, Chris
Country: Denmark
Code: 3684
Language: Danish
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 31
Illustrations: 22 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 0.00
Price: 12.50
Jacques Bellange was official painter under Catherine de Boubon. He painted in a decorative manner the royal salons, made portraits of the royal family , painted banners for use in war and much more. This small exhibition catalogue depicts his intricate printmaking in the medieval style showing religious extacy and sensual figures, exagerated beauty and ugliness, everything in excess.
BLIXEN, KAREN: THE ART OF KAREN BLIXEN. Drawings and Paintings/ Tegninger og Malerier
Author: Asmussen, Marianne Wiren dfeldt & Sofie Stenkjær
Country: Denmark
Code: 4548
Language: English/ Danish
Year Published: 2001
No. of pages: 159
Illustrations: 83 Color Illustrations. 25 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 9”
Weight: 2.00
Price: 59.50
Blixen told stories, not only in words but also in drawings and paintings. This exhibition intends to present a writer who also paints-and not the inverse. Her drawings and paintings are shown side by side with selected quotes from her entire authorship. This catalogue beautifully captures this interplay of word and image, while also presenting critical essays that illuminate various aspects of her work.
BRENDSTRUP, THORALD: I GULDALDERENS SKYGGE (In the Shadow of the Golden Age).
Author: Oelsner Gertrud, Bugge Ingeborg
Country: Denmark
Code: 6766
Language: Danish
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 160
Illustrations: 103 Color Illustrations. 4 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10”sq
Weight: 3.00
Price: 85.00
The book focuses on the overlooked Golden Age painter Thorald Brendstrup whose work paints a unique picture of the Danish landscape in the years between 1835 and 1883. As one of the first mix golden age artists who depicted Brendstrup the landscape that lay outside Copenhagen and North Zealand, quite parrallel with the Danish geography mapped by future topographers. Brendstrup visited a number of years the area around Maribo Lake, from which comes a number of excellent works that show the scope of the artist's talent. Brendstrup traveled not only the Danish kingdom, he also made a number of lengthy trips to Germany, Italy and Portugal. The book is an important and unique Danish artist rediscovered and restored in the Danish art history.
CLAUDE LORRAIN SKETCHBOOK.
Author: Per Bjurström, intro
Country: Sweden
Code: 0495
Language: English
Year Published: 1984
No. of pages: 87
Illustrations: 63 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 8 1/2”x 7”
Weight: 1.00
Price: 59.50
Presenting the sketchbook of French artist Claude Lorrain, known mostly for his captivating landscape paintings. Done mostly in pen and brown ink, this sketchbook contains examples of almost every aspect of his art, techniques as well as themes. Subjects include tree studies, buildings, and landscapes as well as studies of figures and animals. These sketches truly reveal the artist as a virtuoso of the wash, with his remarkable ability in creating atmosphere and a powerful sense of mood in his sheets and paintings. This book includes a leaf-by-leaf examination of this intact sketchbook that offers outstanding insight into the work of this renowned artist.
COURBET, GUSTAVE. En Revoltör Lanserar Sitt Verk (A Rebel Shows His Work)
Author: Zutter, Jörg, Michael Clarke, Patricia Mainardi, et. al
Country: Sweden
Code: 3781
Language: Swedish
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 167
Illustrations: 72 Color Illustrations. 33 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
Price: 59.50
With his innovative open-air painting techniques, Gustave Courbet (1819-77) was a pioneer of realism that preceeded impressionism and modernism in the history of art. A stunning display of the full range of his work including exquisite representations of the human figure, the landscape and much more.