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Gallery 16 Editions, Published 2006. Hardcover, [69] pp (unpaginated); 21 cm; First Edition; illustrated throughout with full-color reproductions of the artist's work and family photographs. SIGNED by the author on the title page in bold black marker.
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket as issued. Illustrated paper-over-boards (front cover designed in the style of an Imperial Russian banknote, with the title in flowing script over a goldenrod ground; rear cover featuring a Tsar Alexander III banknote portrait); mild shelf wear to the boards. Binding tight; pages clean and unmarked apart from the author's signature on the title page.The book accompanies the exhibition of Andrew Romanoff's artwork organized by Griff Williams and presented by Gallery 16, San Francisco, January 12 to February 23, 2007. Edited by Christina Amini; texts by Rachel Hutton, Tim Gihring, and Nancy Pick; book design by Griff Williams and Urban Digital Color, San Francisco. Photographs from the personal archive of Prince Andrew Romanoff. Printed in China.His Serene Highness Prince Andrew Andreevich Romanoff (1923-2021), great-nephew of Tsar Nicholas II and grandson of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, was raised in exile at Frogmore Cottage on the grounds of Windsor Castle, the "grace and favour" home granted by King George V to his grandmother in 1925. After service in the Royal Navy aboard H.M.S. Sheffield (including the 1942 Murmansk supply convoys to the Soviet Union), he immigrated to America in 1949 by freighter and settled in Inverness, north of San Francisco, where he lived with his wife, the painter Inez Storer, until his death. This volume reproduces the body of folk-art works in his characteristic medium of Shrinky Dinks (plastic sheets that shrink to one-third their original size when heated in an oven, then drawn upon, painted, and mounted on painted wood panels), each piece chronicling a memory from his exile childhood at Windsor or his crossing to America. Interspersed with the Shrinky Dink paintings are family photographs, watercolors by his grandmother Grand Duchess Xenia, and reproductions of personal correspondence, including the 1949 farewell telegram from his father at the London docks. A signed copy of the first and only edition of a singular memoir-as-folk-art project.