Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Frida Kahlo

Kathleen Krull

I have other books available by this author 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Masterpieces, Messes (and What the Neighbors Thought)

An entertaining and informative account of the idiosyncrasies--sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic--of twenty famous artists.

Lives of the Artists

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Sarah Dunant

Glue stains on inside cover, but otherwise really good condition.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo, a situation that is complicated by her unwanted arranged marriage to an older man and a battle between the Medici family and the fundamentalist followers of Savonarola. 75,000 first printing.

The Birth of Venus

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1997 Northland Publishing, first edition, first paperback printing. Very good condition.

Arizona

The Life of Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton

One Woman's West

#italy #florence #history #marriage #painters#historicalfiction #nytbestseller

A Novel

Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo, a situation that is complicated by her unwanted arranged marriage to an older man and a battle between the Medici family and the fundamentalist followers of Savonarola. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

New Jersey

Gaugin

Antony Mason

Andrew S. Hughes

Jen Green

Michigan

Explores the French painter's life and development as an artist, his involvement with Fauvism, and his continued experimentation with art.

Matisse

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A large format book with lots of color and b&w images. Published in 1957.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Wisconsin

From Cave Painting to Modern Times

The Picture History of Painting

Joseph Geary

2003 Vintage Books paperback edition. Clean text. Tight binding. No markings inside and no bent pages. Cover in excellent condition.

California

Nicholas Greer is a writer who’s broke and on the verge of divorce. The life of Frank Spira, the controversial painter he’s been researching for six years, has become more real to him than his own. Nick has just finished writing his book when he gets a call telling him that one of Spira’s closest friends, Jacob Grossman, a man who went missing twenty-six years ago, has been spotted in Manhattan.

Nick tracks Grossman down, hoping to find answers to the few niggling questions that remain. Instead he gets news of a work created by Spira, which the artist supposedly destroyed. If it existed, it would be worth millions. When Grossman is brutally murdered an hour after the interview, Nick finds himself drawn into a search for explanations. Only as he comes to understand the disturbing truth behind the lost painting, does he realize that he too is the object of someone’s scrutiny, a ruthless art collector for whom the missing work is Spira’s crowning achievement. Moving between London, New York, and Tangier, Spiral is a relentlessly suspenseful story of art and obsession.

Spiral

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Peter Robb

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

The Man Who Became Carravagio

Recounts the life and deeds of sixteenth-century artist Michaelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio), and provides insight into the politics, art, and people of the period.

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An excellent collection of paintings of Modligliani and the painters of Montparnasse.

Vintage 1970 - Modligliani and the Painters of Montparnasse

Presents the life of Pablo Picasso, from his childhood, through his early artistic efforts, to his world fame as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

Picasso

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Erin Morgenstern

Connecticut

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library, hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians--it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly-soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose--in both the mysterious book and in his own life.

The Starless Sea

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A novel about the lives of the women left behind by painter, Robert Oliver. fiction #paperback #psychiatrists #artappreciation #painters #psychologicalfiction

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Swan Thieves

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Big tear in book sleeve. Other than that, book itself is in good condition

Describes the life and works of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe.

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book is in excellent condition. jacket has signs of wear  at edges. see photos. 

Oregon

Art, Angels, and Miracles

In 1986 Andy Lakey had a near-death experience, in which he reported an encounter with angels. He began producing pictures of his heavenly visitors, aiming to produce 2000 pictures by the year 2000. This book, illustrated with 100 of his paintings, chronicles his five-year creative output.

Andy Lakey

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#paperback #monet #watwrlillies #artists #painters #impressionism #art

French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) is regarded as the archetypal impressionist in his unwavering devotion to the movement. This large-format, sumptuously illustrated Spanish-language entry in the Big Art series covers the full range of his work, from the early landscapes to such enduring masterpieces as the Water Lilies series. Commentary covers every aspect of the life and work of the man whose 1872 painting Impression: Sunrise gave the movement its name.

Monet

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#monet #impressionism #artist #painters #artcatalogue

Beyond Impressionism

This book contains 81 paintings from the 40 years Monet spend at his country home in Giverny, accompanied by a narrative on Monet's life, loves, and influences. It recounts Monet's development from an Impressionist to an innovative abstractionist.

Monet's Years at Giverny

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Ann Lee Morgan

Close to 1,000 entries on the artistic legacy in America from colonial times through the present.

Containing 945 A-Z entries, this dictionary is a biographical and critical guide to American artists from colonial times to the present.

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

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Emil Nolde 

#hardcover #artcatalogue #fineart #artists #painters #art #shozoshimamoto #abstractart #abstractpainting

A Serious Bluffer

Shlozo Shimamoto

#gauguin #art #painting #fineart #impressionism #artists #painters 

Gauguin

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Annie Cohen-Solal

Sam Taylor

Maryland

An Artist in France, 1900-1973

Born from her curated exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work in Paris, biographer Annie-Cohen Solal’s prizewinning Picasso the Foreigner presents a bold new understanding of the artist’s tempestuous relationship with his adopted homeland: France. Before Picasso became Picasso—the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France’s leading figures—he was constantly surveilled by the police. Amidst political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services—the first of many entries in what would become an extensive case file. Though he soon became the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso’s art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica as a visceral statement against fascism in 1937 was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma—as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist’s career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-understudied archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Cohen-Solal reveals how, in a period encompassing the brutality of World War I, the Nazi occupation, and Cold War rivalries, Picasso strategized and fought to preserve his agency, eventually leaving Paris for good in 1955. He chose the south over the north, the provinces over the capital, and craftspeople over academicians, while simultaneously achieving widespread fame. The artist never became a citizen of France, yet he enriched and dynamized its culture like few other figures in the country’s history. This book, for the first time, explains how. Includes color images

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