Les Peintres Témoins de Leur Temps
Paris: Maison des Artistes, 1961. Hardcover. Color boards; 301 pp. + large section of artist-illustrated advertisements; Profusely illustrated with bw plates. Braque cover. Fair; Text clean, spine pulling away from cover, spine and cover pulling away from pages, usual library markings. Item #108082
Text in French (loosely means Painters as Witnesses of Their Times); Includes work by Cassou, Cocteau, Braque, Chagall, Dufy, Dideron, Durel, Léger, Lhote, Matisse, Oudot, Picasso, Pignon, Roualt, Villon and many more with biographies of each. Brief essays by numerous writers: Gerard Bauer, Jean Cassou, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Cogniat, Maurice Garcon, Isis Kischka, Georges-Charles Recio and Maximilien Vox. Published on the occasion of the 10th exhibition of this event to benefit the National Retirement Home for Artists.
Price: $29.97