Ed van der Elsken first realized that he wanted to be a photographer when, in 1947, he saw a book of pictures by the American photographer Weegee, Naked City. Weegee and his vision of urban life became a crucial influence on Ed van der Elsken’s work. Like Robert Frank and William Klein, he felt strongly drawn toward the darker side of human existence.

In 1959, armed with commissions from two magazines and from Netherlands TV, Ed van der Elsken and his wife Gerda van der Veen set off on a round-the-world trip that was to last almost a year. He worked in a number of countries in Africa, Asia, and America; his photographs regularly appeared in magazines, and he contributed short films to television programs. Six years after his return, he published a selection of photographs from the trip under the title Sweet Life.

Much of his work subjectively documented his own energetic and eccentric life experience, presaging the work of Larry Clark, Nan Goldin or Wolfgang Tillmans. Ed van der Elsken abolishes the frontiers between the professional and private spheres, and also between photography and real life.

Description: FIRST EDITION – FIRST PRINTING. Hard bound with dust jacket. boards show some foxing near edges and corners. Minor chipping to edges of jacket, andone lage chip to spine edge. Previous owners gift inscription, otherwise very good.

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Sweet Life
Van Der Elsken, Ed

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Description: Published on the occasion of the Feb. 2, 2002 retrospective held by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 344 pages. edited by Elizabeth Sussman. Text by Renate Petzinger, James Meyer, Briony Fer, Gioia Timpanelli. A lavish monograph, profusely illustrated.

Bookseller Inventory # 17651

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Eva Hesse
Sussman, Elisabeth

Publisher: Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Very Good

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Description: Hard bound with dust jacket in publishers shrink wrap. 512 pages with 430 illustrations!.

Bookseller Inventory # 17652

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The Book of Dreams
Fellini, Federico

Publisher: Rizzoli
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Marc Chagall took inspiration from Belarusian folk-life, and portrayed many Biblical themes that reflected his Jewish heritage. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chagall engaged in a series of large-scale projects involving public spaces and important civic and religious buildings. Chagall’s artworks are difficult to categorize. Working in the pre-World War I Paris art world, he was involved with avant-garde currents, however, his work was consistently on the fringes of popular art movements and emerging trends, including Cubism and Fauvism, among others. He was closely associated with the Paris School and its exponents, including Amedeo Modigliani.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket in publishers slipcase, as issued. 357 pages. English language edition. A very nice copy with almost no visible wear. This beautiful book is comprised of 114 examples of the books, albums and catalogues illustrated by Marc Chagall. Every work is described in detail and reproductions of the original artwork accompany each entry. This copy signed by the publishers Patrick Cramer on the title page.

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Marc Chagall the Illustrated Books : Catalogue Raisonne
Cramer, Patrick

Publisher: Patrick Cramer, Geneva
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the Sept 11 – Oct 10, 1998  PaceWildenstein exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 13642

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Georg Baselitz : New Paintings
Baselitz, Georg

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Description: Paperback copy published on the occasion of the April 22, 2008 exhibition held by the Grey Art Gallery of N.Y.U. 70 works from 35 artists that define a key decade (1955-65) of New York Art. A very nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 17671

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New York Cool : Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection
Karmel, Pepe

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Henry Spencer Moore (1898–1986) was an English artist best known for his monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore’s works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace of Yorkshire.

Catalogue raisonne of graphic work of Henry Moore 1931 – 1884

A beautifully produced set published by Patrick Cramer, Geneva

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Henry Moore: The Graphic Work [Complete 4-Volume Set]
Grant, Alistair & Mitchinson, David & Cramer, Gerald & Cramer, Patrick

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the Sept 14 – Dec. 31, 1995 exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 13648

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The Mobile, the Stable, the Animal : Wit in the Art of Alexander Calder
Calder, Alexander

Publisher: Bruce Museum
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the Dec. 5 Marlborough Gallery exhibition of the same name. A nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 17224

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Martin Chirino : New Works
Chirino, Martin

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Description: Paperback art exhibition cataloge published on the occasion of November 28, 2008 exhibition held by Hollis Taggart.

Bookseller Inventory # 17522

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Dynamic Impulse : The Drawings of Stuart Davis
Davis, Stuart

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Description: Staple bound art exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the August 25, 1995 exhibition held by the Cline Gallery. Minor sunning and some wear to wraps, otherwise very good. checklist laid in.

Bookseller Inventory # 17347

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Elaine De Kooning – Paintings and Drawings
De Kooning, Elaine

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Robert Rauschenberg was a painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked. Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he helped obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life. Rauschenberg was also instrumental in pushing American art onward from Abstract Expressionism, the dominant movement when he emerged, during the early 1950s. He became a transformative link between artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and those who came next, artists identified with Pop, Conceptualism, Happenings, Process Art and other new kinds of art in which he played a signal role.

Description: Paperback art exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the Jan. 11 opening of the 2008 exhibition held by the PaceWildenstein gallery, New York.

Bookseller Inventory # 17373

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Runts
Rauchenberg, Robert

Publisher: PaceWildenstein
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

Description: Paperback art exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the October 27 opening of the 2006 exhibition held by the PaceWildenstein gallery, New York.

Bookseller Inventory # 17520

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Robert Rauschenberg : Scenarios and the Ancient Incident
Rauchenberg, Robert

Publisher: PaceWildenstein
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback exhibition cataloge published on the occasion of the November 15, 2006 sale in association with Christie’s, New York.

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Andy Warhol’s Mao

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Description: Paperback exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the 1994 exhibition in association with  Guild Hall, East Hampton.

Bookseller Inventory # 10873

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Willem De Kooning
Kertess, Klaus

ISBN: 0933793316
Publisher: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback art exhibition catalogue published in association with Ilisso edizioni, and on the occasion of the Aug. 9, 2003 exhibition.  112 pages. A nice copy with only the most minor shelf wear.

Bookseller Inventory # 16494

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CONSTANTINO NIVOLA IN SPRINGS
Nivola, Constantion

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the May 6, 2008 Marlborough Gallery exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 17318

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Samy Benmayor : Forbidden Pleasures

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Description: Paperback exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the 1995 exhibition. Works from 1933 to 1984. Essay by Ellen G. Landau, laid in.

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Lee Krasner : The Nature of the Body

Publisher: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: NEW in publishers shrinkwrap. Hard bound with dust jacket. This monograph offers Malani’s latest paintings and video installations, as well as an illustrated biography. 144 pages with 114 illustrations.

Bookseller Inventory # 17665

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ISBN: 8881586444
Publisher: Charta
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the October 13, 2005 exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 17320

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Ink
Goedhuis Contemporary

ISBN: 9781853453588
Publisher: Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the November 24, 2006 exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 17516

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Julio Larraz : New Work
Larraz, Julio

Publisher: Marlborough, New York
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback art exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the June 1, 2005 opening held by Goedhuis Contemporary Gallery, London..

Bookseller Inventory # 17319

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Contemporary Art from Greater China

Publisher: Goedhuis Contemporary, London
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback art exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the September 14, 2006 exhibition held by the Marlborough Gallery, New York. Minor wear to wrappers, otherwise very good.

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Publisher: Marlborough, New York
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the Dec. 9, 2005 exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 17322

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Born in China

Publisher: Goedhuis Contemporary
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the April 17, 2008 exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 17328

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Feng Shuo Tales
Shuo, Feng

Publisher: Marlborough Chelsea
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the March 24, 2006 exhibition.

Bookseller Inventory # 17321

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Recent Paintings By Qin Feng
Goedhuis Contemporary, New York

Publisher: Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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