Lot 185
Post-impressionism
Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
1) Seurat
i) C. M. de Hauke. Seurat et son œuvre. Paris: Gründ, 1961. First edition, one of 550 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth lettered in black, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, printed on papier Arches filigrané, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Seurat's works, volume 1 with indentations to spine and front board and damp-staining to rear board, acetate dust jackets;
ii) Les Dessins de Georges Seurat (1859-1891). Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1928. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 151 plates tipped to 128 numbered mounts, index leaf to each volume, [16] pp. text including title-page in volume 1, all loose as issued in buckram portfolio, portfolios spotted, toning along edges of mounts;
2) Cézanne
i) The Drawings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné by Adrien Chappuis. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1973. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, slipcase;
ii) The Paintings of Paul Cézanne. A Catalogue Raisonné. John Rewald in Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayune Warman. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. First UK edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;
iii) Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné by John Rewald. A New York Graphic Society Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First edition, 4to, original cloth, slipcase;
iv) Lionelle Venturi. Cézanne: son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original boards, dust jackets (with a few nicks);
3) Gauguin
i) Gauguin par Georges Wildenstein. I. Catalogue [all published]. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1964. First edition, one of 3,000 copies, this copy 'imprimé spécialement pour M. Paul Mellon', 4to, original red boards decorated in gilt, dust jacket, tipped-in colour frontispiece, label removed from front pastedown, pencil note to preliminary page;
ii) Gauguin. A Savage in the Making. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888). Milan: Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2002. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original yellow cloth, dust jackets, slipcase;
iii) Gauguin by John Rewald, Paris: Hyperion Press, 1938, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;
4) Van Gogh
i) Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, edited by Leon Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker, London: Thames & Hudson, 2009, 6 volumes, original boards, dust jackets, slipcase, complete with CD-ROM in pocket mounted to rear pastedown of volume 6;
ii) Jan Hulsker. The New Complete Van Gogh Paintings, Drawings Sketches. Revised and Enlarged Edition of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Vincent Van Gogh. Amsterdam: J. M. Meulenhoff, 1996. Folio, original boards, dust jacket;
and 2 others (Jean Bouin-Luce, Denise Bazetoux. Maximilen Luce. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris: Editions JBL, 1986. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets (small tear to rear panel of volume 2 jacket; and one on Seurat)