Vermeer de Delft
Paris: Galerie de la Pléaide, 1952. 1st Edition. Folio, publisher's plain cardstock boards, original stiff printed paper dust jacket.
Monograph on the Dutch master painter compiled and edited by French novelist André Malraux, with an essay by Marcel Proust and texts by numerous eminent French literary figures. While one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Vermeer is believed to have produced fewer than forty paintings. Reproducing the entirety of his known oeuvre for the first time, this survey contains tipped in color plates and black-and-white in-text plates, with text contributions by Malraux and Proust, alongside fellow Dutch painter Van Gogh, Renoir, poet and playwright Paul Claudel, journalist Léon Daudet, the Goncourt brothers, founder of modern art criticism Eugène Fromentin, and others; with a chronology. Text in French. Tissue guards to color plates. Lacking glassine outer dust jacket. Gift inscription to front endpaper. Minor soiling and edgewear to dust jacket. Near fine. Item #11806
$150.00