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'Gradually it has got about that Mr Herman, alike as painter and as draughtsman, is about as doughty as anyone now going ...' JOHN RUSSELL, Sunday Times '1 take it for granted that Herman important painters working here ...' JOHN BERGER, New statesman 'Each Of his small drawings conveys an acute consciousness of exact balance in the gesture of a man stooping, a woman trudging along the road, but described with a simplicity that is at first sight deceptive, for it is a simplicity arrived at not by jettisoning the irrelevant but by concentrating furiously on the relevant...' ERIC NEWTON, Time and Tide 'This sombre gravity of manner is made possible by an extraordinarily intense and single-minded purpose and also by an ability to comprehend the density and structure of masses which draughtsman ...' QUENTIN BELL, ISBN 1-85343-046-3 9781853430466
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- PublisherFree Association Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1853430463
- ISBN 13 9781853430466
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages136
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Notes from a Welsh Diary, 1944-1955
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Book Description paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. paperback, pictorial gloss card covers mildly faded in part, measuring 14" x 10 4/5", creased at the bottom corner of the rear cover else a very good tightly bound copy, signature of a previous owner, b&w plates throughout. Seller Inventory # 261297
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Herman, Josef (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book appears new and unread but with some marks along the top edge, slight chipping of laminated card cove, slightly faded spine and some discolouration of back cover. Contents pages unmarked and pristine. Polish-born painter Herman first visited the Welsh mining village of Ystradgynlais in 1944, setting up a studio there and staying for the next 11 years. Eleven pages of his own writings introduce 50 pages of his trademark black-and-white washes depicting life in the Valleys. Also includes List of Illustrations, Selected Bibliography and Biographical notes. This is a particularly large book and will require extra postage outside the UK. Seller Inventory # 002925
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Large 4to. pp xi, 50. Original publisher's illustrated covers, lettered black. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Signed presentation from the author, "For Reni with love from Josef and Nik." Josef Herman (1911-1990) was a Polish-British artist. He is remembered for his paintings of workers and labourers but most notably, coal miners from when he lived in a South Wales mining community. ISBN: 1853430463 Clean, very good+. Signedes. Seller Inventory # C36811
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