NOTES FROM A WELSH DIARY 1944-1955. (SIGNED)

HERMAN, Josef.

ISBN 10: 1853430463 / ISBN 13: 9781853430466

Published by Free Association,, London,, 1988

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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+.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NOTES FROM A WELSH DIARY 1944-1955. (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Free Association,, London,
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853430463
• ISBN 13: 9781853430466
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signedes

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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