Arnold Praag (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (english language, humor, english wit and humor ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 80 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations by Van Praag. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Book has slight forward lean. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. 1950. No edition remarks. 80 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by van Praag. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Name in pen on front.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. VAN PRAAG (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book is a none too serious enquiry into the decline and fall of our language. 12mo. 80pages 1950 first edition . Original grey / green cloth cover, title in red lettering on spine. front and rear free end papers are foxed , but generally inside is clean , all illustrations are correct. Dust Jacket has a certain amount of shelf wear, head has some tears . A very interesting little book , with lots of drawings most of us would enjoy this.

viii + 221pp., 27cm., Thèse de doctorat à l'université d'Amsterdam, texte en français, jolie reliure cart., titre doré au dos, texte frais sauf très peu de rousseurs, bon état, X117556.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 48 pages. Fully illustrated in colour. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Redfern Gallery, London, from 6 Dec. to Jan. 2017.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Two autograph signed letters to Henry Roland. Dated 6 and 16 September 1966. On his Taverners, Letchmore Heath headed paper. Discusses his personal and artistic philosophy 'If there are two sorts of painting -aesthetic and philosophical, then the second sort is concerned with what a painting is 'about' while the first is concerned with the painting. The second sort is very difficult to do but seems neccesary to attempt. it is difficult to do because the impetus is a feeling indefinable and complicated. there are no predictable formal principles. No markers. No bouys. The attempt is made afresh with each picture to discover a unique form for an individual sensation.'Arnold van Praag, born in 1926, trained at the Slade between 1953 and 1957, his first solo exhibition (in 1965) selling out before it opened. Despite the auspiciousness of this early success, van Praag chose to earn his living as a teacher rather than as an artist. He initially became a Lecturer in Painting at Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, then subsequently the Head of Painting. In 1975, he became Visiting Tutor in painting at Camberwell School of Arts, a post he held until 1991, when he retired to work full time in his studio. This exhibition focuses on these later paintings, by an artist ripe for re-discovery and re-assessment, a painter of real probity and skill with something serious to say. The results are vibrant oil paintings on board, bold, gestural explorations of everyday life, Biblical subjects, and vivid depictions of tradesmen such as fisherman and butchers. Signed by Author(s).