DON BACHARDY DRAWINGS ... by [Bachardy, Don] - 1974

Santa Monica Ca: James Corcoran Gallery, 1991. 1st Edition . No Binding. Good. Exhibition Announcement, Card Folded,

MUNICIPAL ARTS COMMISSION. Paperback. GOOD. NOEAN 0 9789900233169 1974 SHOW CATALOG OF CELEBRITY PORTRAIT ILLUSTRATIONS, SPLIT SPINE, LOOSE, [WATER DAMAGE TO EDGES THROUGHOUT, SIGNED NOTE FROM DON "TO MARY " INCLUDED;] 4804 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD : 13 JULY - 5 AUGUST 1974 (NOEAN )

Twelvetrees Press, 1983. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedGood. Wraps are firm, page block pristine. Some rubbing/curling to wraps. Gift inscribed by author. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.

(BACHARDY, DON). Blum, Irving. DON BACHARDY: DRAWINGS. Los Angeles: Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, 1973. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. np (24pp), 18 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the slender twenty-four page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1973 exhibition of one hundred pencil and ink wash portraits executed between 1962 and 1973 by noted Santa Monica artist Don Bachardy held at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Included amongst the sitters are Bachardy's longtime partner Christopher Isherwood, Virgil Thompson, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Norton Simon, Mary Astor, W.H. Auden, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Didion and artists Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses, Joe Goode, and Peter Alexander. A bright white, most handsome example of this uncommon item that is the first monographic publication on Bachardy. Inventory Number:… Read More

The New York Cultural Center, 1974. Paperback. Good. . SIGNED presentation copy. Covers a bit tanned but clean. Pages clean, binding sturdy.

Los Angeles: Twelvetrees Press, 1983. Limited Edition of 1500 Copies. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Introduction by Nicholas Wilder. Fully illustrated with 100 Drawings. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Donald Jess "Don" Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years. Born in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Slade School of Art in London. His first one-man exhibition was held in October 1961 at the Redfern Gallery in London. He met the writer Christopher Isherwood on Valentine's Day 1953, when he was 18 and Isherwood was 48. They remained together until Isherwood's death in 1986. A number of paperback editions of Isherwood's novels feature Bachardy's pencil portraits of the author. A film about their relationship, titled Chris & Don:… Read More

(BACHARDY, DON). Wescott, Glenway & Billy Al Bengston. DON BACHARDY: DRAWINGS - AN ASSOCIATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST WITH A SIGNED NOTE LAID IN. With a Note Signed by the Artist. New York: The New York Cultural Center, 1974. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. np (28pp), 22 b&w illustrations + b&w rear cover. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and biography. This is the slender twenty-eight page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1974 exhibition of sixty pencil and ink wash portraits executed between 1964 and 1973 by noted Santa Monica artist Don Bachardy held at The New York Cultural Center. The sitters reproduced are Bachardy's longtime partner Christopher Isherwood, Edward Albert, John Ashbery, Pat Ast, W.H. Auden, Truman Capote, Bette Davis, Charles Eastman, John Houseman, John Houston, Anita Loos, Myrna Loy, Anais Nin, Merle Oberon, Igor and Vera Stravinsky, Virgil Thompson, L. Arnold Weissberger, Monroe Wheeler, and artists Chris… Read More