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George Braziller, 1959. Paperback, 128 pp.; 26 cm; The Great American Artists Series A101; 157 numbered plates (16 in color) and text photographs of the artist and his studio. Distributed by Pocket Books.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Cream pictorial wraps reproducing a detail of Excavation in color, with photographic portrait of the artist on front; light bumping to edges and corners, mild shelf wear and edgewear, some scuffing and soiling, edges toned; quarter-inch tear to cover along rear hinge. Binding tight. Glue from binding visible along gutter of final leaf and inside rear cover, with brown discoloration and slight pulling away at foot. Previous owner's name in ink on half-title; one name underlined in pencil on p. 13. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. [From back cover] This is the first book ever published on Willem de Kooning, one of the most influential artists at work today and certainly one of the most important. A complete illustrated documentation of his career, the present volume also contains the first bibliography and chronology of de Kooning's work. Hess, executive editor of Art News and one of de Kooning's leading champions, dated the plates with the artist's help. They run from the early 1930s abstractions and the figures of the late 1930s through the Pink Angels, the Woman I stages of 1951, and the large abstractions of 1957-1959. Contents: Text; Notes on the Plates; Plates; Chronology; Selected Chronological Bibliography with a Few Notes; Index of Plates; Index of Names and Subjects.