Helmut Erffa Allen Staley (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Oversized cloth. Fine condition in fine DJ. Numerous illustrations in color and b/w.; 11 X 2 X 12.75 inches; 608 pages.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 606 pags. 10-3/4 by 12-1/2 inches. Profusely illustrated, some in color. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A large, heavy book.

Hardcover. First edition. 32 x 27 cm. Quarto. 606 pages. Red cloth in dust jakcet. Over 100 color plates. There is some yellowing to the page edges as well as the dust jacket flap edges. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Jumbo demy folio, [31.25cm/12.5inches], full gilt-embossed ensign-red cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xii, 606, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . The Blake Illustrated Qrty opined: "This volume is the product of a lifetime of researchin fact, more than one lifetime. Helmut von Erffa worked on this project for more than thirty years, and in the 1970s, when he realized that he would not live to finish it, he selected Allen Staley as his successor. Staley took over the project in 1976 and completed it after another decade of work, seven years after von Erffa's death in 1979. The result is a complete catalogue of West's paintings, from his Landscape Composition (c. 1746) to his Bacchante Boys (1819), a total of 739 works produced over more than seventy years. The collaboration is, in every significant way, a successful one. Staley has taken the vast accumulation of von Erffa's research and shaped it into this volume. He also has written a short history of West's career (157 thoroughly illustrated pages), which precedes the catalogue. Throughout the volume Staley conducts discussions in the first person plural to indicate his agreement with von Erffa on matters of interpretation and opinion, with rare moments of individual dissent. One occurs in the discussion of Chryseis Returned to Her Father (no. 161). Staley writes that von Erffa did not think West painted the picture, but then argues that its dimensions correspond to that of a painting on the same subject sold by West's sons in 1829, that details in the painting are of West's hand, and that three central figures are similar to those in West's drawing of the same subject. These items lead Staley to include the painting in the catalogue, although he concedes that the work "was largely painted, or repainted, by another hand" (248). The catalogue is breathtakingly complete, including 255 works whose present location is unknown35 percent of the total. It could be said, in fact, that the catalogue is more than complete, since von Erffa and Staley list works which West may have only intended to execute. The very first entry, in fact, Sappho, seems to have been no more than a twinkling in West's eye. It is listed with a group of paintings West offered for sale to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1809, of which about half had not been painted at the time. West sometimes sought assurance that a painting would be bought before actually producing it; the practice is a curious application of Blake's dictum that conception and execution are one. In this instance, since nothing more is known of the painting, it seems likely that West got no further than the title, ." ( Review by Dennis M. Read, Fall 1991).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986. Hardcover, 606 pp. Large format, massive volume on American-born painter Benjamin West (1738-1820), who spent most of his working life in England. Illustrated in color and black & white. In very good plus condition with hints of age toning to outer margins of pages. Jacket is near fine. **Heavy or oversize Item. An extra shipping charge may apply.**. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine D. J. First Edition. Fine hard cover in Fine dust jacket. Has prior owner's name address stamp on ffep. Large book and may require extra postage. No AMAZON international order on this title. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. xii, 606 pp; over 100 color plates; hundreds of black and white illus. Original cloth, large square 4to. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: VERY GOOD. 606 clean, unmarked, tight pages; bright red cover is clean and sturdy; very light shelf and corner wear on dust jacket; extra shipping may be required.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Folio in red cloth in color pictorial dust jacket; 606 pages: illustrations (some color); 32 cm. In English. Series: A Barra Foundation book; **Large, heavy book. Extra shipping will apply.** **Extra-shipping may apply for international orders**. Very fine, new, unread copy still sealed in shrinkwrap. in new dust-jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like new copy hardcover with dustjacket, xii + 606 pp, 739 entries documenting and illustrating all of West's paintings as fully as possible profusely illus. in B/W with over 100 color plates. A Barr Foundation Book.

hardcover. Condition: new.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Rilegato. Condition: ottimo. Dust Jacket Condition: ottimo. New Haven/London, 1986, Yale univ. press. Cm. 32x27, pp. 606, ill. 734 in nero n.t., ril. tela con sovrac.

Hardcover. Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine. dj. 1st. A Barra Foundation Book. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 606pp; Index. B/W and color reproductions. Contents clean and unmarked. No ownership or library markings. Red cloth HC with gilt lettering on spine. Includes extensive Catalogue and Appendices. The artist has been called the father of American painting.…

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986, first printing. Folio, 10 3/4" x 12 5/8", xi+606pp., over 100 color plates, numerous b/w. Fine in mylar sleeved, fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The book is in unread condition. The jacket has some edgewear and a small split to the top edge at the corner of the spine. Please see pictures.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. folio. pp. xii, 606. profusely illus. (many colour). biblio. index. cloth. dw. Catalogue Raisonné. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. An illustrated catalogue raisonne of the work of Benjamin West. This volume, illustrated with over one hundred color plates, illuminates the course of West's art during his seventy-year career.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. An illustrated catalogue raisonne of the work of Benjamin West. This volume, illustrated with over one hundred color plates, illuminates the course of West's art during his seventy-year career.