[Rarebooks] FS: 10 pounds of Louvre

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Paintings in the Louvre”

By Lawrence Gowing.

Published in New York by Stewart, Tabori & Chang in 1987.

DISCUSSION: The Library Journal noted- "Though many cities boast
impressive art collections, Paris's Louvre is the art museum, and this
1987 title gathers more than 800 of its most famous items spanning 500
years of European art. The hundreds of illustrations are simply stunning."

The author- "Sir Lawrence Burnet Gowing [1918-1991] was an English artist,
writer, curator and teacher. Initially recognized as a portrait and
landscape painter, he quickly rose to prominence as an art educator,
writer, and eventually, curator and museum trustee. He began teaching in
1948, first as Professor of Fine Art, at King's College, University of
Durham at Newcastle upon Tyne (now Newcastle University) from 1948–58,
then as Principal of Chelsea School of Art from 1958–65, as Professor of
Fine Arts at Leeds University, finally serving as principal of the Slade
School of Fine Art at University College, London from 1975-85.
Concurrently, he authored a number of art monographs and catalogues on
masters such as Vermeer, William Hogarth, J.M.W. Turner, Cézanne, Matisse,
and Lucian Freud. Among the major exhibitions he organized were those for
Turner at the Museum of Modern Art in 1966, Matisse in New York in 1966
and London in 1968, and Cézanne, which traveled in 1988-89 from the Royal
Academy to the Musée d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art. Sir Lawrence
was a trustee of the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and the
British Museum, and was a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain. In
1978, he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and was made
honorary curator of its collections in 1985. Beginning in the 1960s he
traveled to the United States to serve as Kress Professor at the National
Gallery in Washington, D.C., and was also curator of the Phillips
Collection in Washington. Knighted in 1982, he was made a chevalier in the
Order of Arts and Letters in France in 1985."

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 10"x12", 687 pages, 800+ color illustrations, dust
jacket.

CONDITION NOTES: Some minor soil, but otherwise clean and nice, with a
tight binding.

PRICE: $50 -

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