Degas

1946 · rif. C39998 — Paris France. As New. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & unmarked -- 4 volumes. Original Limited Edition Numbered Copy. Degas Scholar Denys Sutton's Copy with T. L s to him loosely inserted. 4 volumes: 281 407 421 and 153 pp. With 1466 entries illustrated in b&w. Folios original linen cloth. Paris 1946. This set from the library of noted art historian Denys Sutton Editor of Apollo magazine 1962-87. As Apollo editor Sutton rejuvenated the magazine's reputation as a serious journal for art-historical research and collecting. As editor and contributor to issues of Apollo Sutton found a voice for the English-speaking cultural and collecting community. His dedication of entire issues devoted to individual museums art historians and collections broadened the magazine's readership rivaling Britain's other mainstream art history organ the Burlington Magazine. He retired in 1986 to publish the biography Degas: The Man and the Work. Sutton also built a solid reputation as an art exhibition organizer. His "France in the Eighteenth Century" show at the Royal Academy in 1968 was a blend of scholarship and connoisseurship. He also authored biographies of Rodin Whistler and Sickert and translated a volume by Jean Adhemar on the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Definitive reference on 19th Century French master artist Edgar Degas. Rare monograph from the library of noted Degas scholar. Fine. -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details; 040966 . 1946. hardcover