A Few Collectors - Hardcover

Le Tan; Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1954404042 ISBN 13: 9781954404045

Publisher: New Vessel Press, 2022

Synopsis

Beloved Parisian artist Pierre Le-Tan, known for designing New Yorker magazine covers and collaborations with fashion houses, summons up memories of inveterate art collectors in this utterly charming, illustrated volume. He evokes fascinating, sometimes troubled figures through an array of intriguing and curious tales. With seventy of his distinctive pen and ink drawings - in vibrant colour with meticulous cross-hatching - A Few Collectors opens a window onto the vast or minuscule world created by collectors out of a mix of extravagance and obstinacy. It recounts encounters in Paris, the Céte d'Azur, North Africa, London and New York, where Le-Tan's subjects have amassed a range of treasures. Some involve famed figures like former Louvre Museum director Pierre Rosenberg. Others are insolvent aristocrats, princes of film and fashion, expatriate dandies and flat-out obsessive eccentrics. Le-Tan devotes perhaps his finest chapter to himself.

About this title

About the Authors

Pierre Le-Tan was an internationally renowned French illustrator who designed whimsical and stylish covers for The New Yorker and images for other magazines including Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, as well as book covers for works by his friend Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. Le-Tan died in 2019 at age sixty-nine. A year and a half later, over four hundred objects that filled his Paris apartment, a high-ceilinged cabinet of curiosities on the Place du Palais-Bourbon, were auctioned off to passionate admirers of his taste.

Michael Z. Wise is the publisher of New Vessel Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Vessel Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1954404042
• ISBN 13: 9781954404045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128