Description
Little, Brown and Company, Boston [Published date: 1936]. [From title page] "translated from the original French manuscript by Violet M. MacDonald and now first published in any language. With thirty-two plates in collotype". Hardcover, viii, 321 pp; frontispiece portrait of Ambroise Vollard; 32 collotype plates reproducing works by Bonnard, Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and others; 23 cm. First American edition. Beige linen boards with blue printed paper title label on front cover and matching spine label.
Condition & notes
In good condition / no dust jacket. Spine and label moderately darkened with some small stains; title label on front cover lightly rubbed; minor bumping to corners. Binding tight. Endpapers lightly toned with previous owner's address label on front pastedown. Interior pages lightly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk. Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), legendary Parisian art dealer and publisher, recounts his life among the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists - Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Degas, Gauguin, Renoir, and Picasso - with candid anecdotes and first-hand recollections. His memoir reveals both the personalities of the artists and the emerging modern art market in late 19th- and early 20th-century Paris. Contents include: From the Island of La Reunion to the Faculte de Droit in Paris; Arrival in Paris: the Quartier Latin and Montmartre; A Golden Age for the Collectors; My Apprenticeship at the Union Artistique; Cezanne and Van Gogh; The Street of Pictures; Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire; The Steins and Other Americans; The Studios of Meissonier and Others; Georges Rouault, Douanier Rousseau, Picasso; My Portraits; Ambroise Vollard, Publisher; Ambroise Vollard, Author; The War; Painting After the War.
