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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0300121547. Hardcover with dustjacket, book looks new, no remarkable flaws, jacket has a tiny amount of edge-wear adjacent to the spine at the top and bottom edge of the front panel and no other flaws, the jacket is clean and attractive and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, tells the story of the artist's life and also offers "a sensitive critical study of Marie-Louise's paintings, " illustrated in color and black and white, includes a Select Bibliography; 288 pages.
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VG. Red-orange cloth, gray & color illus. dust jacket, 288 pp., color & BW illus. Considers the life and work of Viennese artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-1996). "Drawing on a wealth of unpublished family archives, including decades of correspondence between Marie-Louise and the writer Elias Canetti, the book tells the story of Motesiczky's life--her childhood in Venice amidst an array of talented and distinguished family members; her life-long friendship with Max Beckmann; her studies in Vienna, The Hague, Paris and Frankfurt; her flight with her mother when the Nazis marched on Vienna in 1938; and her many years living and working among other exiled artists in England. The book offers also a senstive critical study of Marie-Louise's paintings, discussing particular works and the circumstances that surrounded their creation. These including compelling self-portraits, a moving series of paintings of the artist's aging mother and lyrical depictions of her English garden that represent the high points of the artist's archievement." (dj).
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws-clean, no writing or markings, tight binding, an unused copy.; xii-288pp., 35 illustrations, b/w photos and color plates of artworks., first biography in english of 20th century austrian painter and exile artist, marie-louise von motesiczky, student of max beckmann, close friend of elias canetti.; this title was printed with two different dust jackets, one had a salmon color background and a particular self-portrait on the cover. this copy has a gray background with a different self-portrait. the other attributes are identical-content, size, etc.