soyer raphael joseph foster (5 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: very good. Raphael Soyer Ilustrador. First. Illustrated with 52 watercolors and 72 drawings in b/w, b/w frontispiece portrait of artist. 26 pages of text. 4to, green cloth (a bit shelfworn at lower corner). New York: Crown Publishers, (1968). A very good clean copy, lacking the dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Soyer, Raphael Ilustrador. 26 pages. 124 plates (part col. ) illustrations. Portraits. 29 cm. Includes fifty-two water colors and seventy-two drawings in black and white. New York City life and people from the 1920s to the date of publication are the subject of 58 figure studies and portraits by Soyer. DJ has spine label (personal library). Previous owner's sticker on fep. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Fep creased. Raphael Soyer (December 25, 1899 - November 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists' studios of New York City. He also wrote several books on his life and art. Among Soyer's portrait subjects were artists and writers who were his friends; these included Allen Ginsberg, Arshile Gorky, Chaim Gross, Gitel Steed and Edward Hopper. In 1967 the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibited a retrospective of his work.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light toning on both end pages. Chip at spine crown.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY SOYER to a New York City Art Dealer and husband, who purchased a piece illustrated in book. Quarto, illustrated in color and b/w, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt (bookplate of NYC dealer to front paste-down, hint of shelfwear to corners, else near fine). pictorial dust-jacket (1x2 inch chip to bottom edge of front panel, additional minor chips, creases, closed tears and mild rubbing, else good or better). Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. First edition. Near Fine in Very Good - Pictorial Dust Jacket with original price ($10.00). Inscribed by Soyer on free front endpaper: "To Mr. & Mrs. S. Stanley Kreutzer Raphael Soyer". Soyer (1899 -1987) was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker, often referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist due to his interest in depicting men and women in their everyday environments. 52 watercolors and 72 drawings, many in color. Photo frontis portrait of artist. Very attractive green cloth with gilt titling on front and spine. Gilt is clean and in excellent condition. Rubbing to bottom corners and at tail of spine. There is a vertical line at the center of the front cover; it appears to be part of production, NOT a defect. Dust Jacket shows light wear, rubbing, edge wear, and scuffing, with edge wear and chipping at front top, wear and cracking at top & tail of spine, soiling on rear, small abrasion on rear. Interior is clean, crisp, tight & bright, other than author's inscription unmarked. 26 pp. plus 124 Plates. Approx. 8.75" x 11.25". A very nice copy. Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all questions; glad to respond.