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First edition, first printing As new and bright tall illustrated by the artist. Glossy stiff wraps with excellent spine and crisp bright text. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with full page size showcase of the artist's work within museums, studios and out in the field and a nicely realized text. A wonderful portrait. …

Hardcover. Condition: NEW. 1st. 37 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery, New York, June 5 to September 26, 2008. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher s shrinkwrap. *** "This book presents a unique collection of portraits of eight of the world's leading sopranos, by acclaimed artist Francesco Clemente. Executed over a four-month period, these large-scale oil paintings portray each diva as her character in their upcoming productions - including Puccini's 'La Rondine', Massenet's 'Thais', and Berlioz's 'Faust'. Displaying his distinctive talent for portraiture and caricature." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.…

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 88 pages with 37 color illustrations - Jeff Koons' Popeye series, begun in 2002, incorporates some of the artist's signature themes and motifs: the surrealistic combination of everyday objects, cartoon imagery, outsized scale, art-historical references and children's toys. The sculptures reproduced here continue Koons' fondness for casting inflatable toys in aluminum carefully painted to resemble supple plastic which he juxtaposes here with unaltered everyday objects, such as chairs or garbage cans. The Popeye paintings are complex and layered compositions that combine disparate images both found and created by Koons (including images of the sculptures in the series). The instantly recognizable figures of Popeye and Olive Oyl are central, and recur across several key works within the book. Frederic Tuten, Arthur C. Danto and Dorothea von Hantelmann provide commentary on this fun body of work, which Koons discusses in a conversation with Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.…