[Rarebooks] FS: 2 French Artist's Color & Studio Guides

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TWO FRENCH ARTIST'S GUIDES-

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TITLE:  “Manuel Generale de la Peinture a l'Huile”

Published in Paris by Le Bailly, Libraire-Editeur: no date, but 1884.

DISCUSSION: An all-inclusive artist's guide by the famous French art
dealer Adolphe Goupil, including setting up a studio, working with colors,
subject matter, mediums and tools, perspective, restoration and
preservation, and lost-wax painting.

Adolphe Goupil (1806-1893) was one of the greatest art dealers and art
publishers of the nineteenth century. There were few facets of the arts
Goupil did not have a hand in, from publishing fine art prints, catalogs
and books, to operating galleries selling fine art in Europe, England and
America. Vincent and Theodore van Gogh were once employees, and Adolphe
Goupil's daughter married the artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.

DESCRIPTION: Softcover. 5.5"x9", 144 pages.

CONDITION NOTES: The covers and spine have some light wear and soil. The
book interior has some minor soil, and some scattered foxing.

PRICE:  $60 -

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“Compendium a l'usage des Artistes Peintres et des Amateurs de Tableaux”

By Jacques Blockx.
Published in Anvers by J.-E. Buschmann in 1922. 4th edition.

DISCUSSION: An important study of artists' colors by a leading French
chemist and authority on artists' pigments, their preparation and use.
Jacques Blockx [1844-1913] was the founder of the French paint company
that bears his name to this day. Salvator Dali, wrote of him, "This man
who never painted, will contribute more to the painters of tomorrow than
what we will have accomplished, all the modern painters together". A small
volume, but a mighty one.

DESCRIPTION: Softcover. 4.5"x7.5", 142 pages, portrait frontispiece.

CONDITION NOTES: The covers have some light wear and soil. The book
interior has some minor soil, but otherwise is clean and nice, with a
tight binding.

PRICE:  $65 -

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