Search Results: Art History and Exhibition Catalogues from Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books

London: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2012. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. This catalogue was previously in the collection of the art gallery Offer Waterman and Co. and bears a discreet circular blindstamp hand-numbered in the centre to the lower right of the half-title. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of prints by Josef Albers, Naum Gabo and Ben Nicholson held at the Alan Cristea Gallery, London from 12 July to 10 August 2012..

New Haven and London: Yale University Press in Association with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Pale grey hardcover with title in black on spine. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fine, with just the faintest hint of shelfwear. 171pp. Many colour and b/w plates. This beautifully produced book was published to accompany the exhibition of work by Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) held at The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, the University of East Anglia, Norwich from 2 October to 9 December 2001. The exhibition then toured to the Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne from 1 February to 12 May 2002.In this book, Michael Peppiatt, the author and curator of the exhibition, gives a vivid account of the crucial moment when Giacometti returned from his wartime exile in Geneva to his beloved Paris, a city traumatized by the war but receptive to new movements and ideas. He describes how Giacometti's… Read More

London: Belgrave Gallery, 1976. Book. Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Card-covered stapled catalogue. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers, and the words "London B." written neatly in biro at top right of front cover. This catalogue was deacessioned from the library of the art dealer Offer Waterman and Co. and bears a discreet circular blindstamp hand-numbered in the centre to the lower right of the title page. Binding sound. 16pp. 2 colour illustrations to inside of front and rear covers. This 79 item catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by the British artist Alison Debenham (1903-1967) held at the Belgrave Gallery, London from 25 February to 19 March 1976. It includes an 8 page introduction written by the artist, Claude Rogers, who knew Debenham well..

Cardiff, Wales: National Museum of Wales, 1982. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. The front endpaper bears an Agnews Library printed stamp. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 71pp. 13 colour and many b/w illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the retrospective exhibition of work by the artist Allan Gwynne-Jones (1892-1982) organised by the National Museum of Wales in association with the Welsh Arts Council and the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Swansea, 1982. .

Liverpool/Baden-Baden: Walker Art Gallery/Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in association with the Arts Council of Gret Britain, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Dual text in English and German. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Many b/w and several colour plates. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by the British pop artist Allen Jones (b.1937).

London: Waddington Galleries, 1996. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover with dustjacket. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. 41pp. 11 colour plates. This 11 item catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by the Spanish artist Antoni Tapies (1923-2012) held at Waddington Galleries, London from October 18 to November 16, 1996..

Brussels: Patrick Derom Gallery (in collaboration with the Arshile Gorky Foundation), 2014. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Condition: Very good, with just the faintest hint of shelfwear to covers. This catalogue was deacessioned from the library of the art dealer Offer Waterman and Co. and bears a discreet circular blindstamp hand-numbered in the centre to the lower right of the title page. 59pp. 21 colour plates. The works on paper by the Armenian-American painting Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) presented in this catalogue were loaned from the Arshile Gorky Foundation. The catalogue is beautifully produced with full descriptions beside each plate..

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Merrell, 2000. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 628pp. Many colour and b/w illustrations. This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition entitled "The Splendor of 18th Century Rome" held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from March 16 to May 28, 2000, which then toured to Houston. Throughout the 18th century, the city of Rome, with its antiquities, Renaissance and Baroque monuments, and cosmopolitan spirit, was the artistic and cultural capital of Europe. This was the Rome of the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps, the Rome of carnivals and papal ceremonies, the Rome that Piranesi depicted in his celebrated prints; a mecca for amateur, student and professional artists from throughout the Western world. A heavy catalogue - will require extra shipping charges if to be sent outside UK..

Nr.Alcester, Warwickshire: Felix Scribo, 2005. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Revised and enlarged edition (first published 1996). Softcover. Condition: Fine. 84pp. Many colour illustrations. This book tells the story of Margaret Calkin James, a calligrapher, graphic designer, textile printer, watercolour painter and printmaker. Her training in calligraphy at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, followed by the early years at her Rainbow Workshops and marriage to the architect C H James, led to many freelance commissions as a designer for some of the most progressive and prestigious clients of the inter-war years, including London Transport and the Curwen Press. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: H.G.Bohn, 1853. Book. Fair. Half-Leather. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A new edition, revised by George Stanley. Half-leather with marbled papers covered boards, endpapers and textblock edges. Condition: Covers are in fair condition, being quite rubbed and shelfworn. Browning to title page from frontispiece opposite. Foxing to endpapers, and the nine b/w plates at rear. Binding sound, text crisp and clean, no foxing or inscriptions. 938pp. Engraved frontispiece of Michael Bryan by W.Haines. Very thorough useful reference source. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: A & C Black, 1910. Book. Illus. by William Gibb. Fair. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pale jade green cloth with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Condition: Fair, covers are generally lightly soiled and shelfworn, with bumping to spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Browning and foxing to endpapers. Occasional light foxing to text with some foxing to descriptions facing the 28 tipped-in colour plates. 95pp. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2016. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with title in black on spine and front cover. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. 32 plates. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of prints by Antony Gormley (b.1950) held at the Alan Cristea Gallery, London from 13 May to 2 July 2016. Marking his first project and exhibition with the Alan Cristea Gallery, Gormley made four series of works on paper (woodblock prihts, crude oil and petroleum jelly prints, acquatints and etchings) that consider how our physical freedom and imaginative potential is increasingly conditioned by the built environment. .

Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2008. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 168pp. Many colour plates. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by the Irish artist Cecil King (1921-1986) held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin from 27 February to 18 May, 2008. It covers his entire career and focuses on the later paintings for which he is best known. It includes texts by Richard Demarco, Sean Kissane and Medb Ruane as well as a chronology by Oliver Dowling..

London: The Fine Art Society in association with Paul Liss, 1999. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers.Lower right corner of half-title bears the discreet circular stamp of the art gallery Offer Waterman & Co. with a reference number neatly written in the centre. 72pp. Several colour and b/w illustrations. This catalogue was published by the Fine Art Society in association with Paul Liss to accompany the exhibition of work by the British artist Charles Mahoney (1903-1968) held at the Fine Art Society, London from 20 March to 14 April 1999. The exhibition had previously toured to the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston and the Royal Museum and Art Gallery, Canterbury..

Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. 208pp. Many colour illustrations. This publication coincided with the exhibition of work by the British born Australian artist Charles Conder (1868-1909) held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from June 14th to 17th August 2003. The exhibition then toured to Melbourne and Adelaide. Richly illustrated with colour reproductions of Conder's paintings, prints and watercolours on silk, it includes a contribution from one of his biggest collectors, Barry Humphries and tracks his career from famous Heidelberg images to Paris where as an habitue of the Moulin Rouge he met Toulouse-Lautrec and to England and France where he counted Wilde and Beardsley as intimates..

London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1969. Book. Good. Soft cover. Card-covered stapled catalogue. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. The previous owner has written the address of Peter Collingwood on the outside of the rear cover, together with a small note. 25 b/w illustrations, the first numbered 1-13 of rugs and wall-hangings by Peter Collingwood (1922-2008), the second numbered 14-25 of pots by Hans Coper (1920-1981). All the works by both artists were made in 1968. This catalogue was produced to accompany the joint exhibition of work by Peter Collingwood and Hans Coper held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London from January 29 to March 2, 1969. The exhibition then toured to the Art Gallery, Southampton, City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham and City Art Gallery, Manchester..

London: Chapman & Hall, 1903. Book. Fair. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Olive green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and in dark green on cover. Condition: Fair, covers have light shelfwear and bumping to spine and cover corners. Binding cracked internally in a couple of places, otherwise sound. Inscription on title page from the author to Mr John Vinycomb (1833-1928), the Newcastle born artistic director of Marcus Ward in Belfast and an international expert in heraldry. 140pp. Sixteen chromolithographic plates, with tissue guards. Light soiling to the base of plate 6. Letter also included with book from the authors brother, Richard Ward, written from the offices of the New Zealand Herald, to Mr Vinycomb. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1984. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Card-covered stapled catalogue. Condiition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. The previous owner has made some price annotations in the margins of the antiquarian books, pictures and ceramics sections of the catalogue. 40pp. Many b/w and a few colour illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the Sotheby's auction of the contents of Bettiscombe Manor, Bettiscombe, nr.Bridport, Dorset by direction of Michael Pinney, on Monday 25th June, 1984. The auction included 18th and 19th c furniture, ceramics, glass, antiquarian books, pictures, clocks and carpets..

London/St.Petersburg, Florida: The Royal Academy of Arts/The Dali Museum, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover. Condiition: Fine, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 222pp. Many colour and b/w illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by Dali and Duchamp held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London from 7 October 2017 to 3 January 2018 which then toured to The Dali Museum St.Petersburg, Florida from 5 February to 27 May 2018. The catalogue brings into dialogue two of the 20th century's most famous artists: Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and Salvador Dali (1904-1989), virtuouso painter of fabulous visions. Although at first glance they might appear polar opposites, the two men were united from their meeting in the 1930s by a firm friendship, rooted in a unique combination of originality, humour and scepticism. The catalogue includes contributions by Dawn Ades, William Jeffett, and Ed Ruscha… Read More

London: Marlborough Fine Art, 1967. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 81 item catalogue with 10 b/w illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by David Bomberg (1890-1957) held at Marlborough Fine Art, London in March, 1967.